Previous posts for March 27th may be found here: Antonio Squarcialupi (2019), Sarah Vaughan, Patty Smith Hill; Ben Webster (2021), Ferde Grofé (2022), Vincent d'Indy (2023), and Mariah Carey (2025)
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Philip Chess [born Fiszel Czyż] (27 March 1921 – 18 October 2016) was a Polish-born American record company executive, the founder (with his brother Leonard) of Chess Records.
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Chess Champion
Chess Records was an American record company established in 1950 in Chicago specializing in blues and rhythm and blues. Established and run by two Jewish immigrant brothers from what was then Poland, Leonard and Phil Chess, the company produced and released many singles and albums regarded as central to the rock music canon. – adapted from Wikipedia, s.v. "Chess Records"
A little Polish Jewish kid
Could never have expected
The sorts of things he later did,
Or projects he projected.
He didn't know (this toddler Pole)
That in the future, he
Would play a legendary role
In blues and R & B.
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