Browse Items (4 total)

Chess Records was a Chicago based music record label primarily blues, rhythm, soul music, gospel music, early rock and roll, and jazz. The label was founded by Polish brothers Leonard and Phil Chess and eventually was sold off to Universal Music…

MN0067196.gif
Blues song recorded by Muddy Waters

P04906.jpg
Maxwell Street was famous for it's market and the blues musicians who would play out front of stores and on the corners

extralarge.jpg
The Sutherland Lounge was a music venue in the Sutherland Hotel that hosted some of the most famous jazz and blues musicians to make it from Chicago
Output Formats

atom, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2