The blues is a family business for Marshall Chess. His father, Leonard Chess, co-founded the legendary Chess Records label of Chicago in 1950. And, boy, did they release music - Chuck Berry, Muddy ...
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Seventy-five years ago, an upstart label called Chess Records began issuing electrified blues, thereby rewiring the sound of American music. Founded in Chicago by two Jewish immigrants from Poland, ...
In 1964, the Rolling Stones took a break from their first American tour to record several songs at Chess Records at 2120 S. Michigan Ave. It was where Chicago’s Black blues performers made the records ...
Some people hear the birth of rock and roll in the nasty backbeat on records that Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Junior Wells, and Little Walter, among others, made in Chicago for Chess Records, the ...
In 2010, a day after drumming before 27,000 blues fans, with pop star John Mayer’s trio at the Crossroads Guitar Festival in a Bridgeview soccer stadium, prolific session musician Steve Jordan ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Chess Records, which brought blues to white audiences in the 1950s and 60s, is one of a handful of labels identified with one musical genre - as Stax is with soul, Sun with ...
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