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	Leonard Chess - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Leonard Chess (March 12, 1917 - October 16, 1969) was a record company executive, founder of Chess Records.
		Born Lejzor Czyz in Motele, Poland,[1] Chess was influential in the development of electric blues.
		In 1948, the Chess brothers took control of the company and in 1950 renamed it Chess Records.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leonard_Chess (323 words)

	Chess Records
		Founded in 1950, Chess Records captured a vibrant new style of American music with roots in the American South that influenced and inspired rock and roll pioneers from Chuck Berry to the Rolling Stones.
		Leonard and Phil Chess, immigrants from Poland, began recording acts performing at their Club Macambo at 3905 Cottage Grove after World War II.
		Leonard Chess's son, Marshall, took command in 1969 as president of the company, which was sold to GRT later that year.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/234.html (324 words)

	Chess Records - History and Favourite Artists
		Leonard and Phil Chess were already the proprietors of several Chicago nightclubs when they bought into the Aristocrat label in 1947.
		The Chess reputation also attracted the 'new breed' of blues artists, including Otis Rush and Buddy Guy - it also got a new lease of life in the 60s when the so called blues boom generated renewed interest in both the recordings and the artists who made them.
		Surprisingly to many, Chess didn't just concentrate on the blues idiom (see other column) but they never attracted the same kudos or commercial success as the likes of Atlantic and Stax, although artistically at least, much of the label's R'n'B output was equal to that of any recorded elsewhere.
	www.rhythmandtheblues.org.uk /labels/chess.shtml (1026 words)

	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.
		Chess devoted an entire series to the sermons of the Rev. C.L Franklin, pastor of the 4500 member New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit Michigan.
		The first album on Chess itself was the soundtrack of the movie "Rock, Rock, Rock", which came out in December 1956 and may be the first commercially released rock and roll motion picture soundtrack.
	www.bsnpubs.com /chess/chesscheck.html (2380 words)

	Blues Access: Chess Studios
		Leonard championed this type of music and allowed the world to take a strong look at it and to accept it just for what it was, which is the truth of what we are and who we are.
		I think that we have to acknowledge both that [Leonard Chess] was a product of his period and that these men and women were under a tremendous strain to be able to deliver something and to get what they gave to the world.
		Having finished paying my respects to the old Chess Records building, I march back up the stairs, satisfied with the balance that Blues Heaven seems to have struck between instilling appreciation for the blues tradition and championing the cause of those who have been or hope not to be exploited by the music industry.
	www.bluesaccess.com /No_36/chess.html (3645 words)

	Chess Records
		Leonard and Phil Chess - two enterprising immigrant brothers from Poland - bought into fledgling Aristocrat Records, a label that had been formed a short time before by Evelyn Aron and her husband.
		By 1949 Aristocratic Records which became Chess Records in 1950, was a fixture in the world of music and its recordings and the songs published by Arc Music remain the most impressive collection of blues music in the world.
		In the beginning Chess Records was ran as a two man business, with Phil overseeing the nightclub and the offices of Aristocrat/Chess and Arc, while Leonard alternately scouted talent, produced the sessions, and hand delivered fresh recordings to radio stations in the Chicago area.
	www.history-of-rock.com /chess_records.htm (637 words)

	Swans Commentary: The Birth Of The Blues, by Peter Byrne - pbyrne21
		Now the Chess Brothers were very tough Jews indeed and as funky and authentic as the fls they lived and worked with in Chicago's ghetto.
		Leonard sold the Chess label to one of them for six and a half million dollars plus stock.
		We can place Marshall Chess if we think back to Rich Cohen's picture of the first generation of crude, ruthless, and creative Jewish businessmen and their American sons, tamed and already on their way to mealy-mouthed conformity.
	www.swans.com /library/art12/pbyrne21.html (3024 words)

	The Chess Label Part I (1950-1952) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Leonard Chess still operated the Macomba Lounge, though now that he bore primary responsibility for the record company, club management was largely delegated to Phil.
		Leonard Chess used the occasion to test out his new system for putting reverb on recordings: it consisted of a 3-foot length of concrete sewer pipe with a speaker at one end and a microphone at the other.
		In another case, the Chess brothers decided to re-pair two gospel sides by the Reverend Robert Anderson: Chess 858 thus consisted of one side from Premium 858 and one from Premium 859 (the Premiums were, in their turn, reissues of singles from the Miracle label).
	hubcap.clemson.edu /~campber/chess1.html (7062 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.
		The motivation behind the Chess labels were the men playing in the Chess brothers' clubs, mostly African Americans who had relocated from the South, and who were playing revved-up, electric versions of the traditional Delta blues.
	weeklywire.com /ww/09-20-99/chicago_raw.html (631 words)

	Leonard Chess - Biography - AOL Music
		Born March 12, 1917 in Motol, Poland, he and his family settled in Chicago upon emigrating to the U.S, ; there Chess and his brother Philip entered the nightclub business, and were already the owners of a number of area clubs when in 1947 they bought into Evelyn Aron's newly formed Aristocrat Records label.
		However, the death of Leonard Chess on October 16, 1969 proved a dagger in the heart of the company, and the Chess name and logo then passed through many hands before MCA began a major reissue program during the 1990s.
		Get Leonard Chess biography information, download, listen and watch Leonard Chess music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and use the music search function to find information on other new and established recording artists.
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	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In 1968 Leonard and Phil sold Chess Records to GRT (General Recorded Tapes) and this was the beginning of the end for Chess.
		Leonard and Phil Chess went from operating liquor stores to running bars in Chicago's South Side, the main fl section of town, and began hiring fl singers and fl jazz performers as an added attraction.
		Leonard was constantly traveling to southern states with a trunk full of records and came in contact with Sam Phillips.
	members.aol.com /bookviewzine/issue141.html (2589 words)

	Hastings & St Leonard's Chess Club
		According to reports in the Hastings and St Leonards Observer he was born in the spring of 1935 (N.B. probably not in Sussex).
		As early as October 1947 his name appeared in the chess column of the newspaper as the joint solver of a problem with B Davis (perhaps his father).
		The Hastings and St Leonards Observer of 6.10.1956 reported that he was a surprise visitor to the club and that he was shortly to take up a place at Trinity College, Cambridge.
	www.hastingschessclub.co.uk /mdavis.html (1420 words)

	Amazon.ca: Spinning Blues Into Gold: Books: Nadine Cohodas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It is the amazing story of two Jewish brothers, Leonard and Phil Chess, who came into the USA as immigrants in 1928 and proceeded to build a record company that would influence the face of music for the next 72 years and beyond.
		The Chess brothers would later operate a liquor store deep in the heart of the windy city's fl community, where they were exposed to rough and tumble blues via a juke box in the store.
		Leonard hooked up with a fledgling record company called Aristocrat, and soon he met up and coming guitar player from Mississippi named McKinley Morganfield, who would come to be known the world over by his nickname, Muddy Waters.
	www.amazon.ca /Spinning-Blues-Into-Nadine-Cohodas/dp/0312261330 (1508 words)

	Susan Polgar Chess Blog: Chess Record Label? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This site is where I provide chess fans and enthusiasts with updates on my activities and interests as well as important chess news from around the world.
		Chess records was founded by two brothers Leonard and Phil Chess.
		Yeah, chess records was an important label circa the 50s for early rock and jazz.
	susanpolgar.blogspot.com /2006/11/chess-record-label.html (2374 words)

	Chess Records: Immigrant Success
		As Cohodas related it in her book, the elder Chess was concerned about James' drug problems and well-being enough to put the title of her house in California in his name.
		By the time of the bar mitzvah, Chess Records was a success with a well-known stable of musicians playing a new electric style of blues born in Chicago.
		The Chess brothers were en route to the financial success they sought, first working in their father's junkyard and later operating liquor stores and clubs.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/aponline/20000906/aponline121542_000.htm (930 words)

	Rare Vinyl Records at Craig Moerer ~ Records By Mail \| Used, Collectible, Vintage and Rare Vinyl Records, LPs and 45s
		Initially, most of the material which came from the label was jazz or jump blues but this all began to change with the arrival of Muddy Waters.
		Surprisingly to many, Chess didn't just concentrate on the blues idiom, launching a jazz-based label, Argo, in 1956, but they never attracted the same kudos or commercial success as the likes of Atlantic and Stax, although artistically at least, much of the label's R'n'B output was equal to that of any recorded elsewhere.
		The great Etta James was signed to Chess subsidiary Argo in 1959, she had hits from 1960 ('All I Could Do Was Cry') through to 1963 ('Pushover)'.
	www.recordsbymail.com /chessRecords.php (1018 words)

	Chess Records (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		So inspired by the magnificent output of Chess were the Rolling Stones that they immortalized the label's famous address, 2120 S. Michigan Avenue, in song on one of their early LPs.
		In 1969, Leonard Chess died, stilling the heart and soul of Chess Records.
		Leonard Chess was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987
	www.history-of-rock.com /chess_records_two.htm (893 words)

	Chess Records - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Notable blues performers on Chess and its other imprints were Willie Dixon, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Jimmy Rogers, Buddy Guy and Howlin' Wolf.
		Notable rock and roll and rhythm and blues artists on the label included such guitar slashers as Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley, and vocal groups such as the Flamingos, Moonglows, and Vibrations.
		In 1969 the Chess brothers sold the label to General Recorded Tape(GRT) for $6.5 million.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chess_Records (603 words)

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		Leonard’s metamorphosis into a fighting member of the Irish Brigade went nearly so fast as his death which is detailed described by John S Hilbert in chapter 5 and twenty seven pages of this lovely printed book.
		End of the line is a none chess but not less interesting, it is a fascinating thriller about a rail road terrorist, a story of sabotage written by the former shipboard engineer and naval war planner who spent the last twelve years of his life in railroad management.
		Lasker is probably one of the most famous chess players of all time and for the first time in the history of chess a chess author GM Andrew Soltis is trying to solve the myth behind the success of Emanuel Lasker.
	chessbooks.nl /elburg96.html (4506 words)

	Save America's Treasures - Project Profile
		In 1957, brothers Leonard and Phil Chess converted this former automobile parts factory into the Chess Records Office and Recording Studio, creating a home for legendary Blues artists.
		When Leonard Chess realized music scouts were gaining interest in these musicians, he decided to begin recording and selling the music himself.
		Chess was a very significant record label that made a huge impression on European groups, including the Rolling Stones, who took their name from the widely popular Muddy Waters tune, "Rollin’ Stone."
	www.saveamericastreasures.org /profiles/chess.htm (950 words)

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		The Chess brothers were first of all businessmen, who knew very little about music, but had a good ear for what would sell.
		By the late fifties Chess had dropped blues acts except for the biggest and entered the sixties with Etta James, Clarence "Frogman" Henry, Sugarpie DeSanto, Koko Taylor, Fontella Bass and others.
		In 1963 Leonard bought the radio station WVON in Chicago (and turned it into a hugely succesful operation) and in 1968 WFOX in Milwaukee, which was renamed WNOV.
	www.geocities.com /shakin_stacks/leonardchess.txt (355 words)

	The Aristocrat Label (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Leonard Chess's name was first associated with the company in an item that appeared in Billboard on October 11, 1947; he was identified as a new addition to "the sales staff." By then he was already wholesaling Aristocrat product out of the trunk of his Buick.
		Leonard Chess was also interested in recording an artist he believed would be a big success.
		Leonard Chess was hired to wholesale records; he spent weeks on the road distributing 78s out of the trunk of his Buick.
	hubcap.clemson.edu /~campber/aristocrat.html (16716 words)

	Australian Blues Bands
		It was the Chess brothers' partner Evelyn who wanted to sign Muddy Waters, but Leonard had to be convinced as he was very superstitious.
		Leonard didn't like to record on Fridays and never on the thirteenth, but the seventh and eleventh were OK. Incidentally he played the bass drum on Muddy's
		The Blues Heaven Foundation now resides in the old Chess Studios, and is managed and run by the Executive Director and Vice President, the very capable Shirli Dixon, Willie's daughter, who personifies a deep commitment to the music and to the people who created it; what's more she can also sing!
	users.triplei.net.au /fleurcom/chess.html (771 words)

	Various Artists - Fuel, MP3 Music Download at eMusic
		The Chess brothers liked Dixon's playing, and his skills as a songwriter and arranger, and during the next two years he was working regularly for the Chess brothers.
		Back at Chess, Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters continued to perform Dixon's songs, as did newer artists such as Koko Taylor, who had her own hit with "Wang Dang Doodle." Gradually, however, after the mid-'60s, Dixon saw his relationship with Chess Records come to a halt.
		The 1980s saw Dixon as the last survivor of the Chess blues stable and he began working with various organizations to help secure song copyrights on behalf of blues songwriters who, like himself, had been deprived of revenue during previous decades.
	www.emusic.com /artist/10564/10564848.html (1338 words)

	The Czyz Brothers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		During the 1960's the Chess Studios were located at 2120 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Ill. To a band of British lads this address was the Mecca of the Blues.
		When they became famous as The Rolling Stones, their greatest wish was to record at Chess Studios, and, being on the top of the charts, they got their wish and recorded "12 X 5", their second LP, at that exact address.
		Today, the building that held the Chess Studios in the 1960's is the home of the Blues Heaven Foundation, founded by Chess Artist and Repertoire man Willie Dixon.
	home.comcast.net /~cherhoyt/Czyz.htm (301 words)

	SIRIUS Satellite Radio - Blues Radio – Listen to Blues Music Radio on Sirius Satellite Radio – Sirius Blues Station
		So, we're proud that Marshall Chess – son of co-founder Leonard Chess and nephew of co-founder Phil Chess – has joined SIRIUS Blues to host The Chess Records Hour.
		Marshall’s father Leonard Chess founded Chess Records in 1950 with his brother Phil and the two soon built one of the most storied blues labels of all time.
		Expect a full hour of vintage tracks from the Chess vaults and priceless stories from the heyday of the Chicago blues scene.
	www.sirius.com /SiriusBlues (550 words)

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