Phil Chess, Pioneering Blues and Rock Exec, Dead at 95

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.

Chess' nephew Craig Glicken confirmed his uncle's death to the Chicago

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