Brass Transit at Rivers Casino in Schenectady on June 19 delivers the Chicago catalog — one of the most horn-driven, arrangement-heavy bodies of work in popular music — with the precision and enthusiasm that the source material demands. Chicago’s music, particularly the early run of numbered albums, combined jazz-rock complexity with pop accessibility in a way that no other band of the era attempted, and a tribute that does justice to those arrangements requires serious musicianship across every chair.
Rivers Casino in the Capital Region provides a venue setting that suits a Friday night with big arrangements and familiar songs.
Tickets available through the venue. Details at Rivers Casino.