Comments on: REMEMBERING JERRY WEXLER [10.30.2009] http://www.nyrocker.com/blog/2009/11/jerry-wexler/ Thoughts and Words On Music and More by Andy Schwartz Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:22:33 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Alice Harp Hopkins http://www.nyrocker.com/blog/2009/11/jerry-wexler/comment-page-1/#comment-1496 Alice Harp Hopkins Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:27:57 +0000 http://www.nyrocker.com/blog/?p=488#comment-1496 Andy, My husband and I were at the memorial,came up from our home,New Orleans.Jerry is much loved in this city,has a gaggle of "Jerry's Kids".He loved this city with such passion,and offered personal help to many of us after Katrina.His gift to us was his steadfast caring and genuine regard for our city and his "kids" who live here.Plus a quart of gumnbo from Dooky Chase never hurt either.I knew Jerry from the Muscle Shoals years,came of age with many of the locals up yonder;we both still miss Eddie Hinton.New Orleans is home,so had to return.I am one of Jerry's academic friends,worked on his archives,and am hoping to do a npr series on Jerry in Louisiana.Would you like me to keep you informed about this?I still say a prayer for Jerry at Mass every Sunday.Like he always told me,"couldn't hurt"! Bon Chance, Alice Harp Hopkins,MLIS Andy,
My husband and I were at the memorial,came up from our home,New Orleans.Jerry is much loved in this city,has a gaggle of “Jerry’s Kids”.He loved this city with such passion,and offered personal help to many of us after Katrina.His gift to us was his steadfast caring and genuine regard for our city and his “kids” who live here.Plus a quart of gumnbo from Dooky Chase never hurt either.I knew Jerry from the Muscle Shoals years,came of age with many of the locals up yonder;we both still miss Eddie Hinton.New Orleans is home,so had to return.I am one of Jerry’s academic friends,worked on his archives,and am hoping to do a npr series on Jerry in Louisiana.Would you like me to keep you informed about this?I still say a prayer for Jerry at Mass every Sunday.Like he always told me,”couldn’t hurt”!
Bon Chance, Alice Harp Hopkins,MLIS

]]> By: Melony Karge http://www.nyrocker.com/blog/2009/11/jerry-wexler/comment-page-1/#comment-1166 Melony Karge Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:27:06 +0000 http://www.nyrocker.com/blog/?p=488#comment-1166 Thanks for writing this, I found it very informational. I was born in Memphis and still have several happy memories of the area. I am working on a vacation back there this spring. Has Memphis changed much from the early 80's? I am really looking forward to seeing <a href="http://memphisu.com/gracel/graceland-elvis/" rel="nofollow">Graceland</a> again. Thanks for writing this, I found it very informational. I was born in Memphis and still have several happy memories of the area. I am working on a vacation back there this spring. Has Memphis changed much from the early 80’s? I am really looking forward to seeing Graceland again.

]]> By: Arthur Levy http://www.nyrocker.com/blog/2009/11/jerry-wexler/comment-page-1/#comment-881 Arthur Levy Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:46:26 +0000 http://www.nyrocker.com/blog/?p=488#comment-881 Andy, As a late-comer to this blog, I appreciate with all my heart your due diligence in covering the memorial tribute to Jerry Wexler, one of my godfathers in music. After buying Jerry's records for years, I finally met him at Criteria Studios in Miami back in the early 70s Zoo World era, when Janet Oseroff invited me to cover sessions that Jerry was producing for Doug Sahm, the Electric Flag reunion, and so on. ZW put the Electric Flag on the cover, and Jerry LOVED that. When ZW folded, Jerry told Earl McGrath 3 days later to hire me as Atlantic's publicity writer. (I didn't realize that Earl had to fire Jean-Charles Costa first - JC, another Wexler devotee, used my ZW article in his liner notes to Atlantic's Mar y Sol Festival double-LP and I had become friends with JC before inheriting his gig, but that's another story.) Anyway, thank you Andy for putting together this tribute of your own to Jerry, that spurs all of us to think about our own stories and rememberances of such a great NYC mensch. Jerry was one of my beloved mentors along with David Gahr and John Hammond and Herbie Mann and Art D'Lugoff and too many others who are gone from us now. You gotta hold on/to what you got. Andy,
As a late-comer to this blog, I appreciate with all my heart your due diligence in covering the memorial tribute to Jerry Wexler, one of my godfathers in music. After buying Jerry’s records for years, I finally met him at Criteria Studios in Miami back in the early 70s Zoo World era, when Janet Oseroff invited me to cover sessions that Jerry was producing for Doug Sahm, the Electric Flag reunion, and so on. ZW put the Electric Flag on the cover, and Jerry LOVED that. When ZW folded, Jerry told Earl McGrath 3 days later to hire me as Atlantic’s publicity writer. (I didn’t realize that Earl had to fire Jean-Charles Costa first – JC, another Wexler devotee, used my ZW article in his liner notes to Atlantic’s Mar y Sol Festival double-LP and I had become friends with JC before inheriting his gig, but that’s another story.) Anyway, thank you Andy for putting together this tribute of your own to Jerry, that spurs all of us to think about our own stories and rememberances of such a great NYC mensch. Jerry was one of my beloved mentors along with David Gahr and John Hammond and Herbie Mann and Art D’Lugoff and too many others who are gone from us now. You gotta hold on/to what you got.

]]> By: admin http://www.nyrocker.com/blog/2009/11/jerry-wexler/comment-page-1/#comment-763 admin Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:16:32 +0000 http://www.nyrocker.com/blog/?p=488#comment-763 I regret the omission of Shelly Prior, whose playing is crucial to Big Sister's distinctive sound. (This post was running <em>way</em> long already...) I regret the omission of Shelly Prior, whose playing is crucial to Big Sister’s distinctive sound. (This post was running way long already…)

]]> By: admin http://www.nyrocker.com/blog/2009/11/jerry-wexler/comment-page-1/#comment-762 admin Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:12:19 +0000 http://www.nyrocker.com/blog/?p=488#comment-762 Thank you, Michael...I recommend your definitive biography <em>Ray Charles: Man And Music</em> to all readers of this blog (and everyone else). Thank you, Michael…I recommend your definitive biography Ray Charles: Man And Music to all readers of this blog (and everyone else).

]]> By: admin http://www.nyrocker.com/blog/2009/11/jerry-wexler/comment-page-1/#comment-761 admin Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:09:24 +0000 http://www.nyrocker.com/blog/?p=488#comment-761 Thanks for writing, Al -- sorry you weren't there. I enjoyed your fine score for Hal Ashby's <em>The Landlord</em> (1970) when it aired last month on TCM! Thanks for writing, Al — sorry you weren’t there. I enjoyed your fine score for Hal Ashby’s The Landlord (1970) when it aired last month on TCM!

]]> By: Al Kooper http://www.nyrocker.com/blog/2009/11/jerry-wexler/comment-page-1/#comment-746 Al Kooper Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:33:50 +0000 http://www.nyrocker.com/blog/?p=488#comment-746 I never even heard a peep about it so many many thanks. I could have told a few choice anecdotes myself, but it's probably better there was more music than yakking. Wassup w/Aretha's reaction ? Weird............... I never even heard a peep about it so many many thanks. I could have told a few choice anecdotes myself, but it’s probably better there was more music than yakking. Wassup w/Aretha’s reaction ?
Weird……………

]]> By: Paul Wexler http://www.nyrocker.com/blog/2009/11/jerry-wexler/comment-page-1/#comment-744 Paul Wexler Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:02:06 +0000 http://www.nyrocker.com/blog/?p=488#comment-744 Dear Andy, Thanks for taking care of business and thanks for a terrific piece. Dear Andy,

Thanks for taking care of business and thanks for a terrific piece.

]]> By: Michael Lydon http://www.nyrocker.com/blog/2009/11/jerry-wexler/comment-page-1/#comment-743 Michael Lydon Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:15:28 +0000 http://www.nyrocker.com/blog/?p=488#comment-743 Good piece of reporting, clear, detailed, and (quietly) passionate. God bless, Jerry Wexler, a tough guy with a soft heart for music! Good piece of reporting, clear, detailed, and (quietly) passionate. God bless, Jerry Wexler, a tough guy with a soft heart for music!

]]> By: Dan Beck http://www.nyrocker.com/blog/2009/11/jerry-wexler/comment-page-1/#comment-742 Dan Beck Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:37:54 +0000 http://www.nyrocker.com/blog/?p=488#comment-742 Andy, thank you for writing this for those of us who weren't there. It seems sometimes those who have the most to be grateful for are the ones who least remember. And to the contrary, it seems some of the great talent who for whatever reason didn't have the commercial success they deserved seemed to treasure Jerry's career the most. Andy, thank you for writing this for those of us who weren’t there. It seems sometimes those who have the most to be grateful for are the ones who least remember. And to the contrary, it seems some of the great talent who for whatever reason didn’t have the commercial success they deserved seemed to treasure Jerry’s career the most.

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