Bman's Blues Report

CHICAGO BEAU Bandleader, Vocal, Harmonica, Percussion, Author Chicago Beau (L Beauchamp), was born on the south-side of Chicago on 13 February 1949, into a house of music. The recordings of Dinah Washington, Coleman Hawkins, Miles Davis, Billy Holiday, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald and others inundated his senses from the beginning. From the age of 10 until 15, Beau studied tap-dancing with the great Afro-Cuban dancer and choreographer, Jimmy Payne. He participated in many Cabaret-type shows that were popular during that era. A show could consist of performances by Afro-Cuban dancers, magicians, tap dancers, Jazz and Blues performers, and drill teams. These shows gave young people the opportunity to participate with professionals in a community setting. There was little distinction in the taste of the audience, people of all ages appreciated the same talent. Beau was becoming quite a tap-dancer (sometimes still used in his shows), but it was the Blues and Jazz elements of thes...

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 ...