Variety.com (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Music News: Film is based on Glenn M. Stewart's 'City Club' -- Samuel Goldwyn Films has nabbed U.S. rights to Rachel Samuel's "Dark Streets," based on Glenn M. Stewart's stage musical "The City Club."
Celebrifi (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
Wednesday night, 13 August and [celeb id=63480]Paolo[/celeb] did a gig at the Hollywood Bowl with Solomon Burke and Etta Jame...
pamie.com (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
Santogold & Diplo: Top Ranking Lil' Wayne: Tha Carter III Solomon Burke: Like a Fire
The Independent (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
Through his work with Solomon Burke, Allen Toussaint, Bettye Lavette and others, producer Joe Henry has developed a reputation as a re-stylist of American roots-music icons.
prefix (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
Take an American roots musician of great acclaim, active in the '50s/'60s, who has achieved comparitively little contemporary commercial success. Bring Joe Henry in as producer. Choose a batch of ...
Matt Dentler's Blog (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
Jerry Wexler died, at the age of 91, late last week. I'll be honest, I didn't realize the man was still alive. It's still sad news. I haven't been sure what to say here, and then I found this tribute from Rolling Stone, which kinda sums it up better than anyone else could. Wexler was more than a pioneer of...
Where's the Outrage? (Free subscription) | 17/08/2008
A friend of mine mentioned Jerry Wexler to me. I said who? Here’s what he wrote me - Bad week for R&B, what with Isaac Hayes and Jerry Wexler dying. Wexler was THE reason that Atlantic Records and Stax Records were different from Motown. Twenty essential Jerry Wexler recordings 1. Professor [...]
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 17/08/2008
LEGENDARY music boss Jerry Wexler, who invented the term Rhythm and Blues, has died at his Florida home aged 91.
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
in post Amie Street Salutes Jerry Wexler from Amie Street Blog .
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
in post Amie Street Salutes Jerry Wexler from Amie Street Blog .
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
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...
Paramus Post (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
Emmylou Harris has got game. A 2008 Country Music Hall of Fame inductee who released an exquisite new album last month, she has collaborated in recent years with artists as diverse as Elvis Costello, Neil Young, Solomon Burke, Mark Knopfler and Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst. But the queen of Americana music has rarely been one to boast. And though she's now embarked on a three-week U.S. summer concert...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
Legendary music producer Jerry Wexler coined the phrase "rhythm and blues" and was one of the key architects of the genre. He revolutionized popular music with seminal, superstar-making recordings of acts such as Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles and others.
Cinema Blend (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
Jerry Wexler, the legendary producer who along with Ahmet Ertegun built Atlantic Records from the ground up to become the dominant rhythm and blues label of its time has died of congestive heart failure. Wexler was the last living founder of the label. His one time partner Ahmet Ertegun passed away in 2006
Matablog (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
Jerry Wexler, one of the pivotal figures in the history of R&B, rock’n'roll and the U.S. music industry, passed away Friday at the age of 91. From Joel Selvin’s obituary in the San Francisco Chronicle : Wexler was the last living partner in the landmark record label, Atlantic Records, The label’s founder Ahmet Ertegun, who [...]
