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Phil Upchurch

CTL-E-0540 · Person · 1960–1970

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Guitarist Phil Upchurch played in the regular band of Chess session musicians on Chicago soul recordings.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from MUSIC-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-MUSIC-001:music-001-infra-006; source research type(s): person. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass.

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