Billy Stewart

Summertime and Billy Stewart: Fruitful and Fleeting

Summer has left our once-warm grasp. In memorium, Darkjive presents Chess Records’ Billy Stewart with a 1966 version of the classic song “Summertime” (from Porgy and Bess). I love how Billy Stewart’s scats interplay with insistent horns and halting guitar licks. The drummer on the cut is a very young Maurice White (of Earth, Wind, and Fire). Originally from…

October 1, 2009

ayanacontreras

Chicago Cultural History, Local Chicago Music, Music, the Goodness

31st Street Beach Chicago, Billy Stewart, Chess Records, Chicago, Chicago Soul, I Do Love You, Local Chicago Soul, Maurice White, Music, Porgy and Bess, soul, Summertime, Washington DC