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Here for the first time, we present the complete recordings of the two sets broadcast that memorable night in Louisville a few short years before founding member and guitarist Terry Kath died from a gunshot wound, this broadcast recording documents a time when Chicago was near the peak of their powers, enjoying the middle years of a near 10-year run as one of the most successful rock groups in the world. Appropriately enough, Chicago begins with "Introduction," the pile driving Terry Kath composition that opened their debut album. Not surprisingly, this song features powerhouse guitar playing from Kath and this raw, highly energetic blues-oriented number fuses elements of blues, jazz, and rock into a style uniquely their own. They venture into cuts from almost all their albums released by this juncture, over the two sets performed this evening more than 40 years ago, and of course include several numbers from their then new platter. Having become enamoured with the jazz-rock fusion movement, the group entered the studio initially intent on recording an instrumental-heavy jazz-influenced album, but reportedly, bassist Peter Cetera and long-time producer William Guercio were both sceptical about taking such a dramatic step. With an album's worth of instrumental material too strong to ignore, and the group also writing enough pop and rock material to fill another album in the meantime, they decided to release all of it as yet another double album, a format they hadn't pursued since their third. This proved to be a wise decision. Despite the first disc being almost exclusively jazz-influenced instrumentals, the album went to hit the #1 spot on the billboard chart. This was a live band that was quite capable of backing up the promise of their best studio recordings onstage.

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