Jerry Wexler (Jan 10, 1917 – Aug 15, 2008) “Music industry legend Jerry Wexler, who came up with the phrase, Rhythm and Blues for Billboard charts, kick-started the careers of Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and helped bring Stax-Volt to international success while a partner at Atlantic Records, has died at the age of 91 at his home in Siesta Key, Fla.” http://netflixcommunity.ning.com/…/t…/jerry-wexler-1917-2008 “As a writer for Billboard in 1948, Wexler helped destroy the prevailing American musical apartheid by eschewing the term “race records” in favour of his own-minted rhythm’n’blues. “Jerry Wexler, who in his 50-plus years in the music business signed, worked with, and/or produced LaVern Baker, Ruth Brown, the Drifters, Champion Jack Dupree, Ivory Joe Hunter, Ray Charles, Big Joe Turner, Otis Redding, Solomon Burke, Wilson Pickett, Duane Allman, Betty Carter, Patti LaBelle, Roberta Flack, Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Dusty Springfield, Sam & Dave, Donny Hathaway, King Curtis, Dr. John, Willie Nelson, Allen Toussaint, Staple Singers, Dire Straits, Bob Dylan, Carlos Santana. Produced 14 albums by Aretha Franklin, plus all the great “Wicked” Pickett sides. Produced Dusty in Memphis, Shotgun Willie, and Slow Train Coming. Gerald Wexler, born 1917 in the Bronx to a Jewish Orthodox Polish immigrant turned window washer and a young German spitfire working in a bakery on Courtlandt Avenue near 161st Street. Gerald Wexler, running through the streets of Harlem, Queens, and Brooklyn during the Depression, and getting an education watching Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Mel Ott hit long balls; Grand Illusion and Un Chien Andalou at the Museum of Modern Art; Louis Armstrong at Jimmy Ryan’s on 52nd Street. Jerry Wexler, who became a partner at Atlantic Records in 1953, and by the end of the decade was one of three owners with Ahmet and Nesuhi Ertegun.” excerpted from: A Man and a Half Jerry Wexler, ‘The Funky Jewish King of Black Music’ BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ, FRI., DEC. 1, 2000 #jerrywexler #arethafranklin #bobdylan #ledzeppelin #dustyspringfield (at Lumonics Light & Sound Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7KmpxjFYNv/?igshid=xyj0cbfzpsqo