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Chess Records was an American record company established in 1950 in Chicago, specializing in blues and rhythm and blues. It was the successor to Aristocrat Records , founded in 1947. It expanded into soul music , gospel music , early rock and roll , and jazz and comedy recordings, released on the Chess and its subsidiary labels Checker and Argo ...
It was released on June 12, 2011 by the label Capitol Records. [1] [2] The album peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Top Blues Albums chart. [3] The title refers to the address of the offices and recording studios of Chess Records in Chicago. [4] [5] The album itself is a tribute to Chess Records. [1] [6]
Leonard Samuel Chess (born Lejzor Szmuel Czyż; March 12, 1917 – October 16, 1969), was a Polish-American record company executive and the co-founder of Chess Records. He was influential in the development of the recording industry, and electric blues , Chicago blues , and rock and roll .
[5] The Daughters of Eve, the all-female band from Chicago managed by Carl Bonafede got to record at Chess and Malo was the engineer for those sessions. [6] [7] [8] In the 1970s, he worked with Billy Joel, and engineered the lost tapes of "The Brothres" in 1973 at Bolic Sound Studio in Los Angeles (featuring the Kirk brothers from Missouri).
He began to achieve success as a solo artist in 1950, with the song "That's All Right", released by Chess Records, but he stayed in Waters's band until 1954. [2] In the mid-1950s he had several successful records released by Chess, most of them featuring either Little Walter or Big Walter Horton on harmonica, notably "Walking by Myself". [ 10 ]
Argo Records was a record label in Chicago that was established in 1955 as a division of Chess Records. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Originally the label was called Marterry, but bandleader Ralph Marterie objected, and within a couple of months the imprint was renamed Argo.
Blues Jam in Chicago is a studio recording by the British rock band Fleetwood Mac, originally released in two single-LP volumes by Blue Horizon in December 1969. [1] [2] It was the result of a recording session in early 1969 at Chess Records in Chicago with Fleetwood Mac, then a young British blues band, and a number of famous Chicago blues artists from whom they drew inspiration.
Cadillac Records is a 2008 American biographical drama film written and directed by Darnell Martin.The film explores the musical era from the early 1940s to the late 1960s, chronicling the life of the influential Chicago-based record-company executive Leonard Chess, and a few of the musicians who recorded for Chess Records.