Topic: Jerry Wexler
John Eskow, a writer and musician, wrote a short article for The Huffington Post about how the worst part of Christina Aguilera's National Anthem...
Influential music producer, journalist and Atlantic Records executive Jerry Wexler passed away at the age of 91 on August 15 , 2008 . Rhythm and Blues pioneer Jerry Wexler dies at 91 (August 15, 2008) Wexler began his career in the music industry as ...
Some people may wonder what Jerry Wexler, a child of Jewish immigrants, has to do with R&B history. He's not a singer nor does he play an instrument, but this Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee gave an important ...
Although it had no single origin, three names played a pivotal role in bringing R&B (as it's called) into the music mainstream. Jerry Wexler, as a writer for Billboard Magazine, first coined the term in 1949 to replace what had ...
Solomon Burke, a life-long preacher and revered soul singer who personified the term "living large," died Sunday at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport ...
Dec. 14, 2006, New York, N.Y.), was a jazz enthusiast who together with Herb Abramson, a music-industry professional, founded (1947) Atlantic Records in New York City. In 1953 they brought in another partner, Jerry Wexler, who coined the term rhythm and ...
rhythm and blues, also called rhythm & blues or R&B, term used for several types of postwar African-American popular music, as well as for some white rock music derived from it. The term was coined by Jerry Wexler in 1947, when he ...
soul music, term adopted to describe black popular music in the United States as it evolved from the 1950s to the '60s and '70s. If in the 1950s Charles was the first to secularize pure gospel songs, that transformation realized its full ...
Willie and the Wheel by Willie Nelson, published by Bismeaux . The latest installment in Willie Nelson's once-a-month release schedule finds him fronting Ray Benson's band, Asleep at the Wheel. The genesis of Willie and the Wheel (Bismeaux) dates back 36 ...
hommage a Nesuhi by Various, published by Rhino Handmade . In 1955 Nesuhi Ertegun joined his brother, Ahmet, and producer Jerry Wexler at Atlantic Records to form one of the greatest triumvirates the music business has ever seen. talents like Charles Mingus, John ...
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Jerry Wexler Talks Bob Dylan Slow ...
Legendary music producer talks about meeting Bob Dylan and how ...2007-10-30 -
Jerry Wexler Memorial David Ritz
Writer David Ritz, the author—with Wexler— of Jerry's ...2009-11-01 -
Jerry Wexler Talks Dylan and Slow ...
Legendary music producer Jerry Wexler talks about being in the ...2007-10-30
