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  Chess Records - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chess Records became famous for the blues music, rock and roll and rhythm and blues recorded and released by the label.
Dixon in particular was a vital figure at Chess Records: he was not only a fine bassist and prolific songwriter, but also aided in orchestration and was something of a figurehead for the label.
A popular story is that the Rolling Stones owe their origin to a Chess Records release: Keith Richards saw Mick Jagger on Dartford railway station, Keith started talking to him because he noticed he was carrying a copy of Chess LP-1427, "The Best of Muddy Waters." He wanted to know where Jagger purchased it.
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 Aristocrat - Privacy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Aristocrat is committed to complying with the National Privacy Principles (new privacy laws which apply from 21 December 2001) included in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and to protecting personal and sensitive information from unfair and unauthorised use.
Aristocrat is also committed to ensuring our employees are aware of their obligations in relation to the protection of personal and senstive information and have developed a robust e-learning training program and embedded the privacy guidelines into our policies and procedures system.
Where Aristocrat believes that it is necessary to lessen or prevent a serious or imminent threat to an individual’s life, health or safety, or a serious threat to public safety.
www.aristocrat.com.au /AUS/tools/Privacy.asp   (1363 words)

  
 The Aristocrat Label   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Aristocrat was officially formed on April 10, 1947 by Charles Aron (who was born in Romania in 1907, and died in Miami, Florida in 1974) and his wife Evelyn (formerly Evelyn Marks, she was born in Chicago in 1919 and died in Boulder, Colorado in 1997).
Aristocrat had first drawn Leonard Chess's attention in June when Sammy Goldberg recruited Tom Archia, the tenor saxophonist who was working in the house trio at the Macomba, for a session led by drummer Jump Jackson.
Although the group's contract with Aristocrat was long expired by this time, a strange delayed reissue of "Dedicated to You" appeared in February 1949 on the B side of Aristocrat 2003 (with a previously unissued number by Sax Mallard for an A side).
hubcap.clemson.edu /~campber/aristocrat.html   (16630 words)

  
 NothinButDaBlues Reading Room May 2001: Chess Records   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Through the recordings of Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, and many other talents great and small, the Chicago-based label and its subsidiaries (Checker and Argo, later renamed Cadet) did an enormous amount to amplify the blues, record some of its greatest talents, and bring the form into the modern era.
Aristocrat was not a blues label at its outset, recording pop and jazz.
Aristocrat had skirted around the blues with jazz-blues sorts of outings by the likes of Andrew Tibbs, and employed guitarist Muddy Waters as a sideman on a 1947 single by pianist Sunnyland Slim.
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 DozierBoys   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The vocal combo was soon signed to Aristocrat records in Chicago and their first release in November of 1948 was "All I Need Is You" / "She's Gone".
The Doziers used the strength of that recording to appear with Eugene Wright's combo and later the King Kolax Combo at an all star show of jazz and R and B performers at the Beige Room of the Hotel Pershing.
The thinking was that the new popularity of vocal group recordings spurred by the incredible success of the Orioles and the Clovers, would lead to renewed airplay and sales for the group.
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 Jelly review: Chess Records Fiftieth Anniversary Collection
During the early 1950s, Chess even dominated rival Sun Records, which was used as a contract studio for its more rural acts.
Collectively, the recordings made by Chess records form a very important cornerstone of contemporary popular music.
Recorded in 1948 with just his acoustic guitar and Ernest Crawford on bass, it remains a vital piece of work after a half-century.
www.jellyroll.com /07/chessrecords.html   (1982 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Aristocrat Records has become Chess, and Ammons has a new release on the label in July - "My Foolish Heart"and "Bless You" on Chess #1425.
Keeping the recording contracts in order, Birdland Records is taken over by Prestige, and they have the signed papers by Ammons.
In July Prestige follows Chess Records lead and records Gene in a Rhythm and Blues setting with the tunes "Gene Ammons Boogie" and "Echo Chamber Blues" on #901.
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 Aristocrat Records Library Music - The Most In-Depth Library Resource On The Internet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Records was the label that did most to popularize the breadth and depth of popular fl music...
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recorded for Columbia records and for Aristocrat in 1948, and...
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 BLUES WORLD 2000 THE ULTIMATE BLUES HISTORY OF CHESS RECORDS MUSIC RESOURCE!!!
Aristocrat and its successor, the aptly named Chess, soon became the linchpin of a boldly amplified, inexorably exciting new style of Chicago blues.
Under the astute supervision of the brothers Chess, the label became the primary recording catalyst for the entire postwar Chicago blues movement, led by the seminal waxings of Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Little Walter.
When they got there, they found a recording home operated by two savvy Polish immigrants who learned about the blues on the mean streets of the Windy City, coming to understand and embrace the idiom as if it were their very own.
www.geocities.com /bluesworld2000/history19.html   (1585 words)

  
 The Robert Nighthawk Story
Nighthawk was already a seasoned recording musician having recorded extensively for Bluebird in the 1930's by the time he returned to Chicago.
He had recorded his debut in Chicago almost ten years earlier making him one of the earliest Delta bluesmen to record in Chicago and setting a precedent for countless to follow.
Chess has recently released "The Aristocrat of the Blues" which is a great two CD set that features eight Nighthawk cuts as well as a number of rough and tumble Muddy Waters sides plus many other surprises.
www.baddogblues.com /nighthawk/chess.htm   (1430 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
By the fall of 1956, Chess Records was making money and so the company moved to South Michigan Avenue where the space would allow them to build a real studio with bona fide recording equipment and enough room for offices, a reception area, and a packing room.
In 1968 Leonard and Phil sold Chess Records to GRT (General Recorded Tapes) and this was the beginning of the end for Chess.
In the 1920s smaller record labels brought out "race records" that promoted jazz music, blues, and country music that was being neglected by the major record companies.
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 The Chess Story
Howlin' Wolf recorded for many years on Chess and was one of the most influential bluesmen in history, his influence can be heard in the music of many of the young British and American blues players that became so successful in the '60s and '70s.
They were also the first company to record his daughter Aretha Franklin, when as a teenager she recorded gospel music for the label.
Even though the records were destroyed, the master tapes survived and are now the property of MCA, which has rereleased much of the Chess material during the 1980s and 1990s.
www.bsnpubs.com /chess/chesscheck.html   (2382 words)

  
 Music: All That Czyz (Newcity Chicago . 09-20-99)
Chess Records was the defining monument of Chicago Blues.
In 1947, the Chess brothers, Leonard and Phil -- sons of a Polish immigrant -- expanded beyond the family stores and clubs to form Aristocrat Records.
You can make a perfect 'sounding' record, but it's a different focus once the possibility of correction is removed.
weeklywire.com /ww/09-20-99/chicago_raw.html   (631 words)

  
 history of billiards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
As before, they claimed that not enough was known, that without a written record to shed light on its significance, no absolutes could be drawn.
Records of "pocketed" tables remain sketchy, at best (though Louis XI's 1470 table did have a hole in the center).
They attacked his heritage, calling him an "aristocrat" (which he most surely was), a spoiled brat who'd been "given" the presidency, in exchange for favors from his "Daddy." They attacked him for his deficiency as a role model.
www.cuecare.com /history.htm   (11821 words)

  
 Down Beat Magazine
On his nocturnal rounds and in record studios he hears plenty of jazz, but at home the records he plays are almost entirely classical.
I don't think Smack was recording then, because we never made a record of it.
He is, after all, one of the greatest musicians jazz has produced and an aristocrat in his profession.
www.downbeat.com /default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=160   (2004 words)

  
 Marv Goldberg's R&B Notebooks - The Dozier Boys
The two tunes recorded with the Dukes Of Swing were a re-recording of “Big Time Baby” and “Music Goes Round And Round.” The latter song was supposed to be an instrumental by the Dukes Of Swing, with the Doziers only singing an introductory few bars.
That summer they recorded “I Am So (In Love With You)” (with a vocal intro by Benny Cotton and a girl that was sent to the session) and “My Heart Is Yours” (a modern harmony ballad) for the Apt label (a subsidiary of ABC-Paramount, for whom they'd recorded some unreleased material two years previously).
The sides recorded were “Wandering Lover” (in a modern harmony vein) and a reprise of “Special Kind Of Lovin'” (with some nice drum work and a sax solo by Red Bell).
home.att.net /~marvy42/Dozierboys/dozierboys.html   (4649 words)

  
 The Parrot and Blue Lake Labels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Brim recorded two sessions for Chess in 1955 and 1956, then for the next fifteen years he was out of the recording studio.
His second recording session, conducted in September 1947 by another struggling independent called Aristocrat, was a historically crucial event, as it also introduced a guitarist named Muddy Waters to the label.
His first recording session was done in December 1950 for Joe Brown, but all four sides were immediately sold to the Chess label, which put them out in 1951.
hubcap.clemson.edu /~campber/parrot.html   (15631 words)

  
 Chicago Music Hub: Raw Material: Chicago's music, uncooked
Their Chess Records was THE defining monument of Chicago Blues.
In 1947, the brothers'sons of a Polish immigrant'expanded beyond the family stores and clubs to form Aristocrat Records.
I was at Gramaphone, and was even told 'We will never carry drum'n'bass records.'" But the scene grew, and Dubshack began promoting drum'n'bass DJs, starting with "First Fridays" at the Smartbar in 1996, and eventually the Brockout!, which marks its third anniversary in January.
www.newcitychicago.com /home/daily/raw/czyz_092299.html   (738 words)

  
 MUDDY WATERS
Records label in 1947, the world was enjoying a post-War buzz
was also being felt in the recording industry.
opportunity to make records on my own, that was all there was to it.
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 Books: Blues Explosion (Newcity Chicago . 12-07-98)
To hardened blues fans, this was the address of Chicago's late, lamented Chess Records.
Even if this South Loop residence has no significance at all to you, John Collis' "The Story of Chess Records" is still a good read; and, for blues aficionados, the book is meatier and more insightful than might be expected.
When Polish immigrant Leonard Chess first bought out Aristocrat Records (soon to become Chess) from its previous owner in 1947, he "didn't know nothing about no blues," according to future Chess superstar Muddy Waters.
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 Recent Developments in the Case for Oxford as Shakespeare   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Perhaps we should despair of ever bridging the vertiginous expanse between the sublimity of the subject and the mundane inconsequence of the documentary record.
Before 1590, moreover, records are so scanty, and such a large proportion apply to amateur or semiprofessional theatrical activities, that conclusions about working conditions must be very shaky.
Schoenbaum has no credentials at all in this field, and is on record as sneering at amateur paleographers (Shakespeare's Lives, 1970 ed., 616), not to mention the fact that Miss Cox thinks that three of the witnesses "signatures" on the will are by the same hand.
www.everreader.com /progres1.htm   (6997 words)

  
 Knowledge Chartists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Lovett was to continue teaching elementary anatomy and physiology for a further 10 years, also writing books on astronomy and geology while inveighing against the teaching of religion.
Always intellectually curious, Lovett's autobiography also records his invention in later life of a “self registering ballot box” aimed at providing a cheap, just and efficient method of electing MPs.
Lovett provides a list of those “who took, more or less, an active part” in the National Association.
www.chartists.net /Knowledge-Chartists   (1863 words)

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