Paul Jerome Weinstein of Sag Harbor Dies October 11

Paul Jerome Weinstein, a retired printing executive and jazz producer, died on October 11 in Manhattan. He lived in Manhattan and Sag Harbor. He was 90.

Weinstein was born in New York City and attended the Horace Mann School and Franklin & Marshall College, where he captained the school’s tennis team. In the late 1950s, Weinstein joined his father Jerry at the Georgian Press on Varick Street before founding PJW Quality Printing, with clients over the years that included Chase Manhattan Bank, Columbia University, and The New School for Social Research.

From the mid-1970s on, he fulfilled a lifelong dream of helping provide great jazz music to New Yorkers. His Heavenly Jazz Concert Series at the Church of the Heavenly Rest and Jazz at Six program at the New School hosted many jazz legends including Eubie Blake, Dizzy Gillespie, Gerry Mulligan, Bucky Pizzarelli, Milt Hinton, Zoot Sims, and Jon Faddis, among countless others.

In the late 1980s, the New School asked him to help create The School of Jazz and Contemporary Music. He was its first chairperson, and was awarded the prestigious Beacons in Jazz Award for lifetime achievement. He remained active in the jazz world, helping promote the music and cultivating lifetime friendships with dozens of the musicians whose music he loved. At the time of his death, he was serving on the Board of Directors of The Jazz Gallery in New York City.

Weinstein was a competitive tennis and squash player, and was a nationally ranked hardball squash player in several senior divisions.

He is survived by his wife, Ada Ciniglio; his daughter Lynne Weinstein (Billy); son Paul Weinstein Jr. (Jessica); stepson Lorenzo Ciniglio (Jennifer); and his grandchildren, Ian Straus, Emma Straus, Parker Weinstein, and Hannah Ciniglio.