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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.
The genre has its origins in the red light districts of African-American communities in St. Louis years before being published as popular sheet music for piano. Ernest Hogan (1865â1909) was an pioneer of ragtime music and the first to publish in the musical genre. He is also credited for coining the term ragtime. Ben Harney, a White Kentucky native has often been credited for introducing the music to the mainstream public.