Records in 2005, entitled Flash Forward, which was a top 15 hit on the Billboard Blues Albums chart. In 1975, Siegel formed the Happy Year Band with drummer/vocalist Sam Lay, Albert Joseph on guitar and Rollo Radford on bass. Siegel later formed the ensemble Chamber Blues with a string quartet, tabla and harmonica/piano. This unusual group features Frank Donaldson a veteran drummer who spent 20 years with jazz musician Ramsey Lewis. Siegel continues to record, has earned several composing honors and is a regular performer and lecturer in the Chicago Public Schools. In 2007 he wrote a book, Let Your Music Soar: The Emotional Connection. The Siegel-Schwall Band toured in 2014 with Corky, Jim, Rollo, Lay, and Sambo Arthur Irby. Lay died on January 29, 2022, in Chicago, aged 86. Jim Schwall died at age 79 on June 19, 2022, in Tucson, Arizona. Discography Studio and live albums The Siegel–Schwall Band (1966, Vanguard) Say Siegel–Schwall (1967, Vanguard) Shake! (1968, Vanguard) Siegel–Schwall '70 (1970, Vanguard) The Siegel–Schwall Band (1971, Wooden Nickel) Sleepy Hollow (1972, Wooden Nickel) 953 West (1973, Wooden Nickel) Three Pieces for Blues Band and Symphony Orchestra (1973, Deutsche Grammophon) Live: The Last Summer (1974, Wooden Nickel) R.I.P. Siegel/Schwall (1974, Wooden Nickel) The Siegel–Schwall Reunion Concert (1988, Alligator) Flash Forward (2005, Alligator) Compilation albums The Best of Siegel–Schwall (1974, Vanguard) Where We Walked (1966–1970) (1991, Vanguard) The Wooden Nickel Years (1971–1974) (1999, Varèse Sarabande) The Complete Vanguard Recordings and More (2001, Vanguard) Vanguard Visionaries (2007, Vanguard) References External links American blues musical groups Musical groups from Chicago Alligator Records artists Musical groups established in 1964 Musical groups disestablished in 2016 1964 establishments in Illinois 2016 disestablishments in Illinois