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 his good luck that two other similarly endowed members of that small band were Ahmet and Neshui Ertegun, the Turkish brothers ...

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 his good luck that along with two similarly endowed members of that small band, the Turkish brothers Ahmet and Nesuhi Ertegun ...

"I remember one thing he taught me, he said, 'SOLOMON, you don't put mayonnaise on a corned beef sandwich.'" Soul legend SOLOMON BURKE pays tribute to late mentor JERRY WEXLER, who died last month (Aug08).