Music WritingMARSHALL - Mike Marshall: Brazil-Duets; Arnie Solomon: Quarter Century (Chgo Trib, 12-12-97)
Music WritingBURNS - Jethro Burns, Puritan Sessions, Bye Bye Blues, CD reviews (Chgo Trib, Nov 23, 1997)
Music WritingSLATS - Slats Grobnik Vs. Public Art, reviewed by David Royko (as David Duckman) (11-9-97)
Music WritingMacMASTER - Natalie MacMaster-No Boundaries; Legg-Waiting...Dancer, CDs (Chgo Trib, 9-5-97)
Music WritingKLEZMER - Various Artists-Klezmer: A Marriage of Heaven and Earth, CD (Chgo Trib, 8-22-97)
Music WritingCOX - Doug Cox-Bone Bottle Brass Steel; Vassar Clements-Vassar's Jazz, CDs Chgo Trib, 8-1-97)
Music WritingSPECIAL - Special Consensus-Strong Enough...; Bashful Brothers, CDs (Chgo Trib, July 4, 1997)
Music WritingWAKEFIELD - Frank Wakefield - That Was Now; Rudy Cipolla-Portrait, CDs (Chgo Trib, 5-30-97)
Music WritingWARSCHAUER - Jeff Warschauer-Klezmer Guitar & Mandolin; VA-Klezmania (Chgo Trib, 5-16-97)
Music WritingPIAZZOLLA - Amrcn Clave Late Recs; Pee Wee Russell-Jazz Original, CDs (Chgo Trib, 4-25-97)
Music WritingWRIGHT - John Wright-Promises; VA-The Stanley Tradition, CDs reviewed (Chgo Trib, 4-4-97)
Music WritingNAPERVILLE - Kathy Chiavola Band at the 1997 Naperville BGMF, brief review (Chgo Trib, 3-24-97)