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Record producer Jerry Wexler dies Jerry Wexler, who invented the term "rhythm & blues" as a Billboard journalist in the late 1940s and went on to cultivate the careers of Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pioneering music executive Jerry Wexler, who helped build Atlantic Records into a rhythm and blues powerhouse in the 1950s and 1960s with artists like Aretha Franklin and Ray ...

American record producer and music executive helped to start Atlantic records and coined term 'rhythm and blues' Few of the pioneers of the postwar pop music industry more effectively exploited the ...

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Jerry Wexler not only coined the phrase rhythm and blues, the legendary music producer was one of the key architects of the genre. He revolutionized popular music with seminal, superstar-making ...

Jerry Wexler, 91, the legendary producer and partner in Atlantic Records who coined the term “rhythm and blues," helped Aretha Franklin find her groove and freed Ray Charles from his early ...

As he approaches 90, even brushes with death can’t keep him off the road — or dim a late-life creative burst. By Jody Rosen As musical director for the bands behind Mr. Brown and also Van Morrison, Mr ...

Record producer Jerry Wexler died Friday in Sarasota, Fla., of congenital heart disease. He was 91. The former journalist was credited with coining the term “rhythm & blues,” and he became a key ...

During his time as an editor, reporter, and writer for Billboard Magazine, Wexler coined the term “rhythm and blues.”He became a partner in Atlantic Records in 1953. There followed classic recordings ...

NEW YORK — Legendary record producer Jerry Wexler, who helped shape R&B music with influential recordings of Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles and other greats, and later made key recordings with the likes ...