Chicago Biography

Chicago Web Sites

Chicago Videos

Categories > Culture and Society > Biography >

Categories

Washington,_Harold (2)

Web pages

Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg was virtually unknown to the literary world when, in 1914, a group of his poems appeared in the nationally circulated Poetry magazine. Two years later his book Chicago Poems was published, and the thirty-eight-year-old author found himself on the brink of a career that would bring him international acclaim. Carl Sandburg worked from the time he was a young boy. He quit school following his graduation from eighth grade in 1891 and spent a decade working a variety of jobs. He delivered milk, harvested ice, laid bricks, threshed wheat in Kansas, and shined shoes in Galesburg\'s Union Hotel before traveling as a hobo in 1897.
http://carl-sandburg.com/index.htm

Biography of Ryan Cohan
Biography of Ryan Cohan: Chicago-based recording artist, jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and producer. Ryan is featured on Orbert\'s highly applauded recording, Priority (labeled \"one of the most persuasive jazz recordings\" in 2001 by the LA Times), in addition to Orbert\'s latest CD on 316 Jazz, Blue Notes. Ryan also appears on Orbert\'s video release, Orbert Davis\' With Strings Attached.
http://www.ryancohan.com/biography.html

Barrelhouse Chuck Biography
Barrelhouse Chuck is the only Chicago blues pianist to have studied under Sunnyland Slim, Pinetop Perkins, Blind John Davis, Detroit Junior and Little Brother Montgomery. Barrelhouse Chuck draws on this distinguished lineage to create a blues, boogie-woogie and barrelhouse piano style that places him at the forefront of this celebrated tradition.
http://www.barrelhousechuck.com/bio.html