Ever since Ryley Walker moved to New York, his albums have sounded unmistakably like Chicago. Walker called the Windy City home for years, eagerly subsuming many corners of its music scene into his own creative DNA. Yet despite the band of Chicago jazz musicians he recorded it with, if Walker&#8217;s 2015 breakthrough Primrose Green sounded…

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