Shake Your Boogie Woogie - CHICAGO BEAU

Chicago beau (b February 13, 1949 in Chicago as Lincoln T. Beauchamp, jr) is an American Blues man (Harmonica), music producer and writer.

He learned from Billy Boy Arnold and received his artist's name from Muddy Waters. Since he was 17 years old, he appeared in small clubs and in camps as well as as a street musician, not only in his hometown, but also in new narrow land states and in Canada to work then in Amsterdam and in Paris. In Paris he met Archie Shepp who involved him with an other oral accordion player, Julio Finn, in the admissions of his creative jazz classic Blasé, the album Pitchin Can and an other album with Philly Joe Jones and Anthony Braxton. Shortly after the kind of bamn of Chicago pulled up him also for appearances and admissions .

In next decades Chicago made his own recordings, but also with his teacher Billy Boy Arnold and with cal Massey, Pinetop Perkins, Fontella bass, James Carter, Frank Zappa, Sunnyland Slim, Famoudou Don Moye as well as with the South African Amakhono We Sinto Choir on. In the 1990s he was with his own group, but also with the kind of band of Chicago on European tour.

As a music producer he took up in Chicago musician like junior Wells, Valerie Wellington, Billy Branch, Willie Kent, Deitra Farr or Tommy McCracken. In 1988 he founded publishing company Literati Internazionale which devoted itself to the writing about blues and jazz as well as the Multikulturalismus and published beside books also magazines. He written three books.
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