{"id":1842,"date":"2008-08-15T18:37:22","date_gmt":"2008-08-15T18:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2008-08-15T18:40:13","modified_gmt":"2008-08-15T18:40:13","slug":"jerry_wexler_an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1842","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Wexler And Loving What You Do"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jerry Wexler, who coined the term ‘rhythm & blues’ died yesterday.<\/p>\n

I’m commenting on this because he was one of my dad’s great friends from his youth – back in New York City in the 1930’s where they worked at a ‘race music’ record store together along with a third buddy, a guy named Ralph Gleason.<\/p>\n

Wexler went on to work at Billboard after the war, and along with Ahmet Ertegun, founded Atlantic Records. Gleason went on to found a jazz club with my dad after the war in San Francisco, and then became the music columnist for the SF Chronicle and then cofounded Rolling Stone. My dad went on to become an executive at a construction company, a job he had no love for but did very well at.<\/p>\n

The lesson? Do what you love and success will come. I have told this story to my sons about a million times, and now, triggered by Wexler’s death, I’m sharing it with you. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jerry Wexler followed his love. My dad didn’t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}