Jazz Articles about Corky Siegel

About Corky Siegel

Album Review

Mike Felten: Fast Mikey Blue Eyes

Read "Fast Mikey Blue Eyes" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
November 8, 2020

One reliable measure of a musician's mettle is the extent to which they attract players with notable pedigree to collaborate. Fast Mikey Blue Eyes is a case in point; the legitimacy of both keyboardist-composer Barry Goldberg and harpist Corky Siegel are beyond reproach, so their contributions to guitarist-vocalist-songwriter Mike Felten's sixth album (for his own label) only reaffirm his own authenticity (not to mention the independence he shares with them). It is also a tribute to the modesty ...

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Album Review

Corky Siegel: Corky Siegel

Read "Corky Siegel" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki
March 16, 2005

Harmonicat Corky Siegel is a four-decade veteran of the Chicago blues scene and co-leads the Siegel-Schwall Blues Band with guitarist Jim Schwall. Siegel held a long residency during the storied heyday of Pepper's Lounge in Chicago--ripping up and tearing down the blues with Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon and other legends--during which he was befriended by admirer Seiji Ozawa, conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In 1968, Siegel-Schwall became the first blues band to play with a symphony orchestra ...