NPR's Scott Simon speaks with the son of the co-founder of the legendary blues label Chess Records. Marshall Chess has released a new album, "The Chess Project." The blues is a family business for ...

Chess Records grew from the confluence of two great migratory streams: Blacks fleeing the Jim Crow South, and Jews fleeing the omnipresent antisemitism of Eastern Europe. Chess’ founders were ...

Phil Chess, who co-founded the legendary label Chess Records with his brother Leonard and helped make Chicago the epicenter of the blues, died Wednesday at his home in Tucson, Arizona. He was 95.

In its 18 years as a family-owned business, Chess gave birth to such seminal records as Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode," Etta James's "At Last," Muddy Waters's "Hoochie Coochie Man," Bo Diddley's ...

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 ...

At the centre of the ululating jam is Chess records’ fading folk hero and master of the blues, Muddy Waters. A year later, and in light of the storm that will follow these sessions, Waters will ...

co-founder of Chicago label Chess Records, home of Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Howlin’ Wolf, Etta James and other pioneering blues artists. The white-haired Chess dishes on Zoom like a friendly ...

Provided Share As a session guitar player for Chess Records, Gerald Sims played with blues and soul royalty on hits that keep people grooving to this day — among them Jackie Wilson’s “Higher ...

His father, Leonard Chess, co-founded the legendary Chess Records label of Chicago in 1950. And, boy, did they release music - Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, Etta James, Bo Diddley, Howlin' Wolf ...