The Best Of Chicago: 40th Anniversary Edition

Performer: Chicago
Producer: James William Guercio; Ron Nevison; Chas Sandford; Jay DeMarcus; Phil Ramone; James Newton Howard; David Foster; James William Guercio; Ron Nevison; Chas Sandford; Chicago; Jay DeMarcus; Phil Ramone; James Newton Howard; David Foster; Cheryl Pawelski (Compilation); Mike Engstrom (Compilation)
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)

Notes: Personnel: Bill Champlin (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Dawayne Bailey, Donnie Dacus, Keith Howland, Terry Kath (vocals, guitar); Walter Parazaider (vocals, woodwinds); Lee Loughnane (vocals, trumpet, flugelhorn); James Pankow (vocals, trombone); Robert Lamm (vocals, keyboards); Daniel Seraphine (vocals, drums, percussion); Laudir DeOliveira (vocals, congas, percussion); Jason Scheff, Peter Cetera (vocals); Chris Pinnick, Bruce Gaitsch (guitar); Tris Imboden (drums). Audio Remasterer: David Donnelly. Liner Note Author: Bill DeYoung. Authors: James Pankow; Lee Loughnane; Robert Lamm; Walter Parazaider. Photographer: Jimmy Katz. Four decades after its 1967 founding, the venerable pop/rock institution known as Chicago issued this well-selected two-disc anthology. Although the collection draws on the Illinois-based ensemble's early era as the Chicago Transit Authority (see the bright "Questions 67 and 68") and reaches into the 21st century (the uplifting anthem "Feel" from CHICAGO XXX), it primarily focuses on the group's '70s heyday by presenting classics such as the horn-laden "Saturday in the Park" and the plaintive ballad "If You Leave Now," both featuring singer Peter Cetera, who departed in the mid-'80s for a solo career. While BEST OF CHICAGO shares many tracks with '02's similarly titled VERY BEST OF CHICAGO, this overview features more breadth (by extending to '06), if not more depth, making it a solid rival to the earlier compilation.

Chicago was the longest-running and most commercially successful of the hordes of jazz-rock bands with horn sections that sprang up in the late-1960s wake of Blood, Sweat & Tears. After myriad personnel changes (including the death of founding guitarist Terry Kath due to a self-inflicted gunshot wound), Chicago eventually mutated into a more conventional pop group that was able to score hit after hit well into the '80s, usually with romantic ballads. They remain among the best-selling American bands of all time. In the mid 1990s they briefly returned to their roots with an album of big band-era standards given the Chicago treatment.

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