To the Editor:
The Reader has many knowledgeable and worthy critics and writers who listen to music with open ears, not only in the city’s “hip” neighborhoods but everywhere there is music to be heard. They’re usually “right on” with their Critic’s Choices, and they appear to spend a lot of time listening and talking to the people who make the music they write about. Why not rotate Wyman’s Hitsville with these other music writers, who could bring a different view on Chicago’s different musics?
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HotHouse on Milwaukee Avenue, for example, is known for having a wonderfully diverse mixture of Latin, African, progressive jazz, and other tantalizing acts that are worthy of mentioning and exploring in print; the Equator Club in Uptown books African and World Beat acts almost every night of the week; neighborhoods like Pilsen and West Town are filled with bars, cantinas, and other venues that book Mexican and Puerto Rican artists who are as famous in these communities as Junior Wells and James Cotton are to the audiences at the Checkerboard. Some of them even record here in Chicago.
