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An excellent tenor saxophonist who was simply an underrated journeyman throughout a lot of his profession, Gordon Brisker was usually known for his dependability and adaptability. Given birth to in Cincinnati, Ohio on November 6, 1937, he began playing piano as a kid, so when he was an adolescent he …

A longtime person in the Isley Brothers, singer/songwriter O’Kelly Isley performed along with his influential family group for near four decades, an interval spanning not merely two generations of siblings but additionally massive social shifts that heralded their music’s transformation from gritty R&B to Motown soul to blistering funk. Given …