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Jerry Wexler, who invented the term rhythm & blues as a Billboard journalist in the late 1940s and went on to cultivate the careers of Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and Led Zeppelin as a partner at Atlantic Records, died Friday at his home in Siesta Key, Fla. He was 91.
In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio, disc jockey Alan Freed began playing this type of music for a multi-racial audience, and it is Freed who is credited with coining the phrase rock and roll to describe the rollicking R&B music that he brought to the airwaves.he famous disc jockey Alan Freed began calling this music rock 'n' roll-- an expression that had been used in blues music for years as a euphemism for sexual intercourse; he used it to name this new genre.