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In this undated photo, from left, Leonard Chess, Marshall Chess and Phil Chess stand together for a photo in Chicago. Phil Chess, co-founder of a Chicago record label that amassed perhaps the most influential blues catalog, has died. He was 95. Nephew Craig Glicken told the Chicago Sun-Times on Wednesday Oct. 19, 2016, that Chess died overnight in Tucson, Arizona. Chess and his brother, Leonard, founded Chess Records in 1950, a label that included such stalwarts as Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Chuck Berry and Etta James.   (Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

In this undated photo, from left, Leonard Chess, Marshall Chess and Phil Chess stand together for a photo in Chicago. Phil Chess, co-founder of a Chicago record label that amassed perhaps the most influential blues catalog, has died. He was 95. Nephew Craig Glicken told the Chicago Sun-Times on Wednesday Oct. 19, 2016, that Chess died overnight in Tucson, Arizona. Chess and his brother, Leonard, founded Chess Records in 1950, a label that included such stalwarts as Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Chuck Berry and Etta James. (Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

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