Remembering Fred Anderson
(Chicago-based jazz saxophonist Fred Anderson passed away June 24. Valid Records’ Benjamin Lyons reflects on his passing.) The Velvet Lounge on Chicago’s Near South Side was an old-fashioned joint covered in the funkiest ’70s-style wallpaper this side of John Shaft’s imagination. I always likened it to Little People’s Place in the Treme, except the common [...]
