Named for the town’s transportation system, Chicago Transit Authority – soon shortened to Chicago – began in 1968 as a savvy septet with a propensity for pioneering jazz-tinged rock suites, as well as perfectly crafted pop gems.
It was the latter that quickly established their northerly flow on the charts, via smash singles like Saturday in the Park, 25 or 6 to 4, Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?, and Colour My World.
Peter Cetera’s lively-yet-locked basslines and melodic upper-fret forays influenced a generation of privy peers and subsequent budding bassists, including Will Lee, of The Late Show and hundreds of New York sessions…