Chess Data has introduced a pair of latest additions to their seventy fifth anniversary launch lineup. On November 14, the legendary Chicago label will publish the compilation releases The Chess Data Christmas Album and Let’s Play Chess: A Chess Data Anthology.
The Chess Data Christmas Album gathers vacation classics and rarities throughout gospel, soul, and the blues. The album’s highlights embody Chuck Berry’s “Run Rudolph Run,” “Christmas,” and “Merry Christmas Baby,” The Moonglows’ “Hey Santa Claus,” the Ramsey Lewis Trio’s “Christmas Blues,” and Kenny Burrell’s “Silent Night.” The compilation consists of new-to-digital rarities from The Soul Stirrers (“Christmas Means Love”), The Salem Vacationers (“Merry Christmas to You”), Lenox Avenue (“Little Drummer Boy”), and The Meditation Singers (“Blue Christmas.”) The LP is pressed on Blue Frost vinyl.
Let’s Play Chess: A Chess Data Anthology is a double LP assortment curated by drummer, scholar, and Grammy-winning producer Steve Jordan. The set affords 25 highlights from the label’s historical past and showcases the affect of Chess Data in widespread music at present. The tracklist consists of Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Etta James, Buddy Man, Bo Diddley, Howlin’ Wolf, and extra.
Chess Data was based in 1950 by Polish immigrant brothers Leonard and Phil Chess. Within the Nineteen Fifties and ’60s, the Chicago-based label was recognized for the event of blues, rhythm and blues, and early rock and roll music. The brothers constructed a roster that included Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf.
As a part of its seventy fifth birthday celebrations, Chess will reissue The Better of Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf’s Moanin’ within the Moonlight in October. First launched in 1958, The Better of Muddy Waters options 12 of his greatest tracks, together with “Rollin’ Stone,” “I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man,” “I’m Ready,” “I Just Want to Make Love to You,” and extra. Additionally launched in 1958, Moanin’ within the Moonlight was Wolf’s first long-playing album and collects a dozen singles recorded over the previous decade, together with favorites like “Smokestack Lightnin’,” “Evil” and “How Many More Years.”
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