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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Jerry_WexlerJerry Wexler - Wikipedia

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   Gerald Wexler (January 10, 1917 – August 15, 2008) was a music journalist turned music producer, and was a major influence on American popular music from the 1950s through the 1980s.

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3. www.rollingstone.com › music › music-newsJerry Wexler: The Man Who Invented Rhythm & Blues - Rolling Stone

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   Aug 15, 2008 · Wexler was much more than a top executive — he was a national tastemaker and a prophet of roots and rhythm. The impact of his deeds matched his larger-than-life personality.

4. www.nytimes.com › 2008/08/16 › artsJerry Wexler, a Behind-the-Scenes Force in Black Music, Is ...

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   Aug 16, 2008 · Jerry Wexler, who as a reporter for Billboard magazine in the late 1940s christened black popular music rhythm and blues, and who as a record producer helped lead the genre to mainstream ...

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5. www.austinchronicle.com › music › 2000/12/01A Man and a Half: Jerry Wexler, 'The Funky Jewish King of ...

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   Dec 1, 2000 · It's unsettling getting a phone call from Jerry Wexler: Gerald Wexler, born 1917 in the Bronx to a Jewish Orthodox Polish immigrant turned window washer and a young German spitfire working in...

6. www.nytimes.com › 2008/08/16 › worldJerry Wexler, record producer, dies - The New York Times

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   Aug 16, 2008 · Jerry Wexler, who as a reporter for Billboard magazine in the late 1940s christened black popular music rhythm and blues, and who as a record producer helped lead the genre to mainstream ...

7. www.latimes.com › local › obituariesJerry Wexler, 91; influential music producer coined 'rhythm ...

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   Aug 16, 2008 · Jerry Wexler, the influential Atlantic Records producer who coined the term “rhythm and blues” before helping shape that sound into one of the most powerful musical forces of the 1950s and...

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   Who was Gerald Wexler?

   • Gerald Wexler (January 10, 1917 – August 15, 2008) was a music journalist turned music producer, and was a major influence on American popular music from the 1950s through the 1980s.

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   Who was Jerry Wexler?

   • Jerry Wexler, who as a reporter for Billboard magazine in the late 1940s christened black popular music rhythm and blues, and who as a record producer helped lead the genre to mainstream popularity, propelling the careers of Ray Charles, Wilson Pickett, Aretha Franklin and other performers, died on Friday at his home in Sarasota, Fla. He was 91.

   Jerry Wexler, a Behind-the-Scenes Force in Black Music, Is Dead at 91

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   Who is William Wexler?

   • One of Palm Springs's "big five" modernists—along with being William F. Cody, Albert Frey, William Krisel, and E. Stewart Williams—Wexler was born in 1926 in Minneapolis, and moved to Los Angeles to work for Richard Neutra after graduating from the University of Minnesota in 1950.

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   Did Jerry Wexler go to school?

   • "But Jerry Wexler did." Gerald Wexler was born on Jan. 10, 1917, and as a youth, he didn't care for school much; he frequented pool halls and record stores instead, and he went to Harlem jazz clubs at night.

   Jerry Wexler, record producer, dies - The New York Times

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9. www.encyclopedia.com › arts › educational-magazinesWexler, Jerry 1917-2008 (Gerald Wexler) | Encyclopedia.com

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   Wexler, a white man with no religious faith or musical talent of his own, was credited with integrating soul music, once the domain of black performers, into the mainstream of American music. Wexler left Atlantic Records in 1975, but his work continued.