Music Deaths: Chess Records Co-Founder Phil Chess-- Part 1

From the October 21, 2016, Chicago Tribune.

PHIL CHESS, 95.  Died October 19, 2016.

Chess Records co-founder Phil Chess, who with brother Leonard helped launch the careers of Chuck Berry, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters and others and amassed a catalog of rock and electric "Chicago" blues that profoundly influenced popular music in the 1950s and beyond has died.

His older brother Leonard died in 1969.

Started in Chicago in 1950, Chess Records was home to many of the major blues artists of the following two decades and also took on such musical pioneers as Berry, Etta James and Ike Turner, whose "Rocket 88" is considered one of the earliest rock songs.