“Jazz speaks for life. The blues tell the story of life’s difficulties, and if you think for a moment you will realized that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph.” – Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s opening address to the 1964 Berlin Jazz Festival.

This quality embroidered hat features Chance Records and Chicago, Illinois. Chance Records was a Chicago-based blues label that captured the raw, postwar electric blues sound coming out of the city in the 1950s. It’s closely associated with influential Chicago blues artists and represents a pivotal moment when the blues moved from Southern roots to an urban, electrified edge.