Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2016 21:51:33 GMT 7
Phil Chess, co-founder of a 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.
The music Chess Records released was known as “race music” at the time and was rooted in rhythm and blues, a sound that would influence the likes of the Rolling Stones and lead to the emergence of rock’n’roll. The brothers released music from other giants of blues including John Lee Hooker and Willie Dixon.
The blues guitarist Buddy Guy told the Sun-Times that the brothers’ impact on blues and rock’n’roll was huge and that it changed Chicago and turned it into a hotbed for the sound.
He said: “Phil and Leonard Chess were cutting the type of music nobody else was paying attention to … and now you can take a walk down [Chicago’s] State Street today and see a portrait of Muddy that’s 10 stories tall.”
www.theguardian.com/music/2016/oct/19/phil-chess-dies-chess-records
How the Blues Brothers behind Chess Records made all the right moves -
www.theguardian.com/music/2010/nov/06/leonard-phil-marshall-chess-records
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.
The music Chess Records released was known as “race music” at the time and was rooted in rhythm and blues, a sound that would influence the likes of the Rolling Stones and lead to the emergence of rock’n’roll. The brothers released music from other giants of blues including John Lee Hooker and Willie Dixon.
The blues guitarist Buddy Guy told the Sun-Times that the brothers’ impact on blues and rock’n’roll was huge and that it changed Chicago and turned it into a hotbed for the sound.
He said: “Phil and Leonard Chess were cutting the type of music nobody else was paying attention to … and now you can take a walk down [Chicago’s] State Street today and see a portrait of Muddy that’s 10 stories tall.”
www.theguardian.com/music/2016/oct/19/phil-chess-dies-chess-records
How the Blues Brothers behind Chess Records made all the right moves -
www.theguardian.com/music/2010/nov/06/leonard-phil-marshall-chess-records
