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For most of the 1990s, Wexler lived on David's Lane in East Hampton, New York, where he shared living space with a Chinese family who aided him with daily functions and kept him company. Portrayals. In Ray, the biopic of Ray Charles, Wexler is portrayed by Richard Schiff.
Aug 15, 2008 · Jerry Wexler died peacefully, and leaves behind his wife, the novelist Jean Arnold, his children Paul and Lisa, and an undying legacy. Less than two weeks before he died, he was still...
Aug 15, 2008 · Jerry Wexler, the former Atlantic Records co-director who produced some of the most groundbreaking rock and soul music of the 20th century, died Friday. He was 91.
Aug 16, 2008 · Gerald Wexler was born in New York City on Jan. 10, 1917, and grew up in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan at a time before the building of the George Washington Bridge, when swimming...
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Aug 15, 2008 · Wexler was the quintessential Jewish street kid who found a home in black music. He was born in 1917 in Manhattan's Washington Heights section, north of Harlem.
Oct 24, 2007 · He was born in 1917, to a poor Jewish family in the Bronx, and is currently battling poor health in Sarasota, Florida. That’s probably where he and your Uncle Moe part ways. Wexler spent most of his life putting records together. And we’re not talking about accounting records.
In the late Forties, Jackie Robinson started playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers, and Jerry Wexler, at Billboard, helped change the name of the black-music chart from Race Records to Rhythm and Blues. As a boy, Wexler had worked with his father as a window washer.
