Jorge Casuso

Half a century ago, whenever a famous big band came to Uptown`s Aragon Ballroom, Harold Boetcher would hop into his 1929 Ford Roadster, pick up his sweetheart, Pauline, and make...

The ice cream vendors have all gone from the Little Village neighborhood, and Pancho`s ice cream shop at 4213 W. 26th St. is closed and jammed with empty carts. Late...

Sergio Mendes Arara (A & M) (STAR) Back in 1965, Sergio Mendes cashed in on the bossa nova craze by wallpapering the popular beat with sexy female voices in foreign...

Muito Caetano Veloso (Phillips) (STAR)(STAR)(STAR)(STAR) Brazilian singer-songwriter Caetano Veloso`s 1978 album ''Muito'' evokes the haunting beauty of a South American rain forest. His fluid voice, which ranges from a husky,...

Studies for Player Piano, Vol. V (Conlon Nancarrow; Wergo). The tinkling notes are the familiar sounds of a piano, but who can play three octaves in half a second or...

Fifteen years ago, in the midst of the Arab oil embargo, U.S. Rep. Dan Rostenkowski cut into his busy Washington schedule and flew to Chicago to meet with a half-dozen...

Two more measles-related deaths were reported in Chicago on Tuesday, bringing the city`s death toll to four in an epidemic that health officials said has taken lives at a rate...

Glenn Branca Symphony No. 6, ''Devil Choirs at the Gates of Hell'' (Restless/Blast First) (STAR)(STAR)(STAR) Hailed by a small flock of followers as ''the world`s greatest living composer,'' Glenn Branca...

Eddie Palmieri Sueno (Capital/Intuition) (STAR)(STAR)(STAR)(STAR) For three decades, band leader Eddie Palmieri has been salsa music`s most prominent exponent. A brilliant pianist, composer and orchestrater, Palmieri also is salsa`s most...

''for the last few days whole lots of things been going on like shoting, killing, dyeing, death. that happens every day, every week, any month. like they tried to kill...