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Percussionist Randy Kaye Dies at 61

August 17, 2008

Jerry Wexler: Pioneer of Postwar Pop

August 16, 2008

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 art of connoisseurship than Jerry Wexler, the American record producer and music industry executive, who has died of congestive heart failure aged 91. It was ...

Jerry Wexler, 91; Influential Producer Helped Shape R&b

August 16, 2008

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 easy-listening style, died Aug. 15 at his home in Siesta Key, Fla. He had heart disease. Starting in the 1950s, Mr. Wexler introduced black and ...

Jerry Wexler: 1917 - 2008

August 16, 2008

Jerry Wexler: January 10, 1917 - August 15, 2008 Jerry Wexler The legendary Gerald “Jerry" Wexler was a music journalist turned record producer who evolved into one of the most influential music men of all time. He was part of the foundation that would give the world R&B and is even coining the term “Rhythm & ...

Jerry Wexler Famed Record Producer Dies at 91

August 15, 2008

Jerry Wexler, a legendary record producer, worked with Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles and other greats. He helped shape R&B music with influential recordings of Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles and other greats, and later made key recordings with the likes of Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson. Legendary record producer Jerry Wexler, who helped shape R&B music with ...

Remembering Whaling City Sound Guitarist Joe Beck

August 14, 2008

Whaling City Sound guitarist Joe Beck, one of the instrument's great contemporary practitioners, died last week of lung cancer at a hospice in Danbury, CT, a few days before his 63rd birthday. Throughout his career, Beck, who recorded frequently for the New Bedford-based WCS label, worked with some of the very biggest names in jazz and ...

Don Helms Steel Guitarist for Hank Williams Dies

August 14, 2008

Don Helms, was the last surviving member of Hank Williams' band, the Drifting Cowboys, and played at the country music titan's side for the better part of a decade, from 1943 until Williams' death at age 29 on the way to a New Year's Day 1953 performance in Canton, Ohio. Don Helms, the steel guitarist whose ...

Alexander Slobodyanik Pianist Dead at 65

August 13, 2008

Alexander Slobodyanik, a Ukrainian-born pianist who earned stardom in the former Soviet Union with his virtuosity and emotional interpretations of Romantic composers and who has been a concert pianist and in-demand teacher since moving to the United States in 1989, died on Sunday in New Jersey. He was 65 and lived in Morristown, N.J. Alexander Slobodyanik ...

Lee Young - Ellington and Goodman Drummer - LA Times Obituary

August 13, 2008

Lee Young, 94; jazz drummer played with Ellington, Goodman Lee Young, performing in 1941, was the first African American hired as a staff musician at a Hollywood studio, signing on with Columbia Pictures in 1946. Lee Young, a jazz drummer who served as Nat King Cole's musical director for nearly a decade and broke barriers as ...

Concord Music Group's Statement on Isaac Hayes

August 11, 2008

The Stax Records and Concord Music Group family lost a great friend on Sunday when soul music giant Isaac Hayes died suddenly at the age of 65. To the world he was Black Moses, Ike The Ripper and, later, Chef from TV's South Park. To the rest of us who had the extraordinary opportunity to work ...