Chess Records - Phil Chess passed on at the age of 95

[Mike]

Reported in the msm the sad news that Phil Chess has passed on at the age of 95

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Phil Chess, co-founder of Chicago’s Chess Records, the label that amassed the most influential blues catalogue and has been credited with helping to invent rock’n’roll, has died at home in Tuscon, Arizona. He was 95.

Nephew Craig Glicken told the Chicago Sun-Times on Wednesday that Chess died overnight at his 30-acre ranch and said his uncle had been in good health.

Chess and his brother, Leonard, who were both Jewish immigrants from Poland, founded Chess Records in 1950 on the Southside of Chicago. It went on to become a label that served as a launchpad for the likes of Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Chuck Berry and Etta James, bringing their blues sounds to the world.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/oct/19/phil-chess-dies-chess-records

[Winsford Soul]

One of the labels that changed the world of music. What a legend. R.I.P

Steve

[Dayo]

Now this is sad, sad news.  Chess was arguably the greatest label in the history of black music.

RIP

[Guest Max Morrison]

Sad news indeed RIP

[Steve S 60]

What a legacy the Chess brothers have left the music world.  RIP.

[Smudger]

Always loved Chicago soul right from the off, Chess brothers are legends  R.I.P.

Trying to think what would have been my first vinyl chess 7" probably one of these Uk singles

Summertime Billy Stewart

Wade in the water Ramsey Lewis

Rescue me Fontella Bass

[Frankie Crocker]

Obituary in the Times today, page 54. Plenty of interesting points raised. The label Phil established has to be one of the best with so many good sounds from a host of artists.