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Cincinnati
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Cincinnati is a city in the U. S. state of Ohio that serves as county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located on the side of the confluence of the Licking with the Ohio River. With a population of 298,550, Cincinnati is the third-largest city in Ohio and its metropolitan statistical area is the 28th-largest in the United States and the largest centered in Ohio. The city is part of the larger Cincinnati–Middletown–Wilmington combined statistical area. In the 19th century, Cincinnati was an American boomtown in the heart of the country, it rivaled the larger cities in size. Throughout much of the 19th century, it was listed among the top 10 U. S and it was by far the largest city in the west. By the end of the 19th century, with the shift from steamboats to railroads drawing off freight shipping, trade patterns had altered and Cincinnatis growth slowed considerably. Cincinnati is home to two sports teams, the Cincinnati Reds, the oldest franchise in Major League Baseball. The University of Cincinnati, founded in 1819, is one of the 50 largest in the United States, Cincinnati is known for its historic architecture. In the late 1800s, Cincinnati was commonly referred to as Paris of America, due mainly to such ambitious projects as the Music Hall, Cincinnatian Hotel. The original surveyor, John Filson, named it Losantiville, in 1790, Arthur St. Ethnic Germans were among the early settlers, migrating from Pennsylvania and the backcountry of Virginia and Tennessee. General David Ziegler succeeded General St. Clair in command at Fort Washington, after the conclusion of the Northwest Indian Wars and removal of Native Americans to the west, he was elected as the mayor of Cincinnati in 1802. Cincinnati was incorporated as a city in 1819, exporting pork products and hay, it became a center of pork processing in the region. From 1810 to 1830 its population tripled, from 9,642 to 24,831. Completion of the Miami and Erie Canal in 1827 to Middletown, Ohio further stimulated businesses, the city had a labor shortage until large waves of immigration by Irish and Germans in the late 1840s. The city grew rapidly over the two decades, reaching 115,000 persons by 1850. Construction on the Miami and Erie Canal began on July 21,1825, the first section of the canal was opened for business in 1827. In 1827, the canal connected Cincinnati to nearby Middletown, by 1840, during this period of rapid expansion and prominence, residents of Cincinnati began referring to the city as the Queen City
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R&B
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Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated as R&B or RnB, is a genre of popular African-American music that originated in the 1940s. In the commercial rhythm and blues music typical of the 1950s through the 1970s, R&B lyrical themes often encapsulate the African-American experience of pain and the quest for freedom and joy. Lyrics focus heavily on the themes of triumphs and failures in terms of relationships, freedom, economics, aspirations, the term rhythm and blues has undergone a number of shifts in meaning. In the early 1950s it was applied to blues records. This tangent of RnB is now known as British rhythm and blues, by the 1970s, the term rhythm and blues changed again and was used as a blanket term for soul and funk. In the 1980s, a style of R&B developed, becoming known as Contemporary R&B. It combines elements of rhythm and blues, soul, funk, pop, hip hop, popular R&B vocalists at the end of the 20th century included Michael Jackson, R. Kelly, Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston, and Mariah Carey. Although Jerry Wexler of Billboard magazine is credited with coining the term rhythm and blues as a term in the United States in 1948. It replaced the term race music, which came from within the black community. The term rhythm and blues was used by Billboard in its chart listings from June 1949 until August 1969, before the Rhythm and Blues name was instated, various record companies had already begun replacing the term race music with sepia series. In 2010 LaMont Robinson founded the Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame Museum, writer and producer Robert Palmer defined rhythm & blues as a catchall term referring to any music that was made by and for black Americans. He has used the term R&B as a synonym for jump blues, however, AllMusic separates it from jump blues because of its stronger, gospel-esque backbeat. Lawrence Cohn, author of Nothing but the Blues, writes that rhythm, according to him, the term embraced all black music except classical music and religious music, unless a gospel song sold enough to break into the charts. Well into the 21st century, the term R&B continues in use to music made by black musicians. In the commercial rhythm and blues music typical of the 1950s through the 1970s, arrangements were rehearsed to the point of effortlessness and were sometimes accompanied by background vocalists. Simple repetitive parts mesh, creating momentum and rhythmic interplay producing mellow, lilting, while singers are emotionally engaged with the lyrics, often intensely so, they remain cool, relaxed, and in control. The bands dressed in suits, and even uniforms, an associated with the modern popular music that rhythm. Lyrics often seemed fatalistic, and the music typically followed predictable patterns of chords, there was also increasing emphasis on the electric guitar as a lead instrument, as well as the piano and saxophone
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Soul music
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Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It combines elements of African-American gospel music, rhythm and blues, Soul music became popular for dancing and listening in the United States, where record labels such as Motown, Atlantic and Stax were influential during the Civil Rights Movement. Soul also became popular around the world, directly influencing rock music, catchy rhythms, stressed by handclaps and extemporaneous body moves, are an important feature of soul music. Other characteristics are a call and response between the lead vocalist and the chorus and a tense vocal sound. The style also occasionally uses improvisational additions, twirls and auxiliary sounds, Soul music reflected the African-American identity and it stressed the importance of an African-American culture. The new-found African-American consciousness led to new styles of music, which boasted pride in being black, Soul music dominated the U. S. R&B chart in the 1960s, and many recordings crossed over into the pop charts in the U. S. By 1968, the music genre had begun to splinter. Some soul artists developed funk music, while other singers and groups developed slicker, more sophisticated, by the early 1970s, soul music had been influenced by psychedelic rock and other genres, leading to psychedelic soul. The United States saw the development of neo soul around 1994, there are also several other subgenres and offshoots of soul music. The term soul had been used among African-American musicians to emphasize the feeling of being an African-American in the United States, according to another source, Soul music was the result of the urbanization and commercialization of rhythm and blues in the 60s. The phrase soul music itself, referring to music with secular lyrics, is first attested in 1961. The term soul in African-American parlance has connotations of African-American pride, gospel groups in the 1940s and 1950s occasionally used the term as part of their name. The jazz style that derived from gospel came to be called soul jazz, important innovators whose recordings in the 1950s contributed to the emergence of soul music included Clyde McPhatter, Hank Ballard, and Etta James. Ray Charles is often cited as popularizing the genre with his string of hits starting with 1954s I Got a Woman. Singer Bobby Womack said, Ray was the genius and he turned the world onto soul music. Charles was open in acknowledging the influence of Pilgrim Travelers vocalist Jesse Whitaker on his singing style, little Richard and James Brown were equally influential. Sam Cooke and Jackie Wilson are also acknowledged as soul forefathers. Cooke became popular as the singer of gospel group The Soul Stirrers
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Jazz
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Jazz is a music genre that originated amongst African Americans in New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in Blues and Ragtime. Since the 1920s jazz age, jazz has become recognized as a form of musical expression. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, call and response vocals, polyrhythms, Jazz has roots in West African cultural and musical expression, and in African-American music traditions including blues and ragtime, as well as European military band music. Although the foundation of jazz is deeply rooted within the Black experience of the United States, different cultures have contributed their own experience, intellectuals around the world have hailed jazz as one of Americas original art forms. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on different national, regional, and local musical cultures, New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass-band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. In the 1930s, heavily arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, Kansas City jazz, bebop emerged in the 1940s, shifting jazz from danceable popular music toward a more challenging musicians music which was played at faster tempos and used more chord-based improvisation. Cool jazz developed in the end of the 1940s, introducing calmer, smoother sounds and long, modal jazz developed in the late 1950s, using the mode, or musical scale, as the basis of musical structure and improvisation. Jazz-rock fusion appeared in the late 1960s and early 1970s, combining jazz improvisation with rock rhythms, electric instruments. In the early 1980s, a form of jazz fusion called smooth jazz became successful. Other styles and genres abound in the 2000s, such as Latin, the question of the origin of the word jazz has resulted in considerable research, and its history is well documented. It is believed to be related to jasm, a term dating back to 1860 meaning pep. The use of the word in a context was documented as early as 1915 in the Chicago Daily Tribune. Its first documented use in a context in New Orleans was in a November 14,1916 Times-Picayune article about jas bands. In an interview with NPR, musician Eubie Blake offered his recollections of the slang connotations of the term, saying, When Broadway picked it up. That was dirty, and if you knew what it was, the American Dialect Society named it the Word of the Twentieth Century. Jazz has proved to be difficult to define, since it encompasses such a wide range of music spanning a period of over 100 years. Attempts have been made to define jazz from the perspective of other musical traditions, in the opinion of Robert Christgau, most of us would say that inventing meaning while letting loose is the essence and promise of jazz. As Duke Ellington, one of jazzs most famous figures, said, although jazz is considered highly difficult to define, at least in part because it contains so many varied subgenres, improvisation is consistently regarded as being one of its key elements
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Moog synthesizer
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The Moog company pioneered the commercial manufacture of modular voltage-controlled analog synthesizer systems in the mid 1960s. The Moog synthesizer gained wider attention in the industry after it was demonstrated at the Monterey International Pop Festival in 1967. The commercial breakthrough of a Moog recording was made by Wendy Carlos in the 1968 record Switched-On Bach, the success of Switched-On Bach sparked a slew of other synthesizer records in the late 1960s to mid-1970s. Later Moog modular systems featured various improvements, such as a scaled-down, the Moog company pioneered the commercial manufacture of modular voltage-controlled analog synthesizer systems. Moog became interested in the design and construction of electronic music systems in the mid-1960s while completing a Ph. D. in Engineering Physics at Cornell University. The burgeoning interest in his designs enabled him to establish a company to manufacture. Pioneering electronic music experimenters like Leon Theremin, Louis and Bebe Barron, Electronic music studios typically had many oscillators, filters and other devices to generate and manipulate electronic sound. Early electronic music performance devices like the Theremin were also limited in function. In the period from 1950 to the mid-1960s, studio musicians, Moog began to develop his synthesizer systems after he met educator and composer Herbert Deutsch at a conference in late 1963. Over the next year, with encouragement from Myron Hoffman of the University of Toronto, Moog and this specific definition means that adding or subtracting control voltage simply transposes pitch, a very valuable feature. At a time when digital circuits were still relatively costly and in a stage of development. In the Moog topology, each module has one or more inputs that accept a voltage of typically 10 V or less. Thus, frequency determines pitch, attenuation determines instantaneous loudness, for instance, control voltages can be added or subtracted in a circuit almost identical to an adder in such a computer. Inside a synthesizer VCO, an exponential function provides the 1 volt per octave control of an oscillator that basically runs on a volts/kHz basis. Positive voltage polarity raises pitch, and negative lowers it, the result is that, for example, a standard keyboard can have its output scaled to that of a quarter-tone keyboard by changing its output to one-half volt per octave, with no other technical changes. The central component was the oscillator, which generated the primary sound signal, capable of producing a variety of waveforms including sawtooth, square. The inputs and outputs of any module could be cross-linked with patch cords and, together with the control knobs and switches, could create a nearly infinite variety of sounds. As a result, ownership and use was at first mainly limited to such as educational institutions and major recording studios
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The Isley Brothers
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The Isley Brothers are an American musical group originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, originally a vocal trio consisting of brothers OKelly Isley, Jr. Rudolph Isley and Ronald Isley. The group has cited as having enjoyed one of the longest, most influential. Alongside a fourth brother, Vernon, the group performed gospel music until Vernons death a few years after its formation, initially a modest charted single, the song eventually sold over a million copies. Influenced by gospel and doo-wop music, the group experimenting with different musical styles incorporating elements of rock. The inclusion of younger brothers Ernie Isley and Marvin Isley, for the next full decade, they recorded top-selling albums including The Heat Is On and Between the Sheets. The six-member lineup of the band splintered in 1983, with Ernie, Marvin, eldest member OKelly died in 1986 and Rudolph and Ronald released a pair of albums as a duo before Rudolph retired for life in the Christian ministry in 1989. Ronald re-formed the group two years later in 1991 with Ernie and Marvin, five later in 1996, Marvin Isley left the group due to complications of diabetes. The remaining duo of Ronald and Ernie accomplished mainstream success with the albums Eternal and Body Kiss, with the former album spawning the top twenty hit, as of 2016, the Isley Brothers continue to perform under the lineup of Ronald and Ernie. The Isley Brothers have had four Top 10 singles on the United States Billboard chart, sixteen of their albums charted in the Top 40. Thirteen of those albums have been certified gold, platinum or multi-platinum by the RIAA. The brothers have been honored by several institutions including being inducted to the Rock. Five years later, they were inducted to Hollywoods Rockwalk and in 2003, were inducted to the Vocal Group Hall of Fame. The Isley Brothers originally came from Cincinnati, Ohio, and were raised at the citys Lincoln Heights suburb, patterning themselves after groups such as Billy Ward and his Dominoes and the Dixie Hummingbirds, the brothers began performing together in 1954. Eventually they landed a spot on Ted Macks Amateur Hour where they won the competition, with Vernon on lead vocals, the quartet soon began touring all over the eastern US regions performing in a variety of churches. When Vernon was thirteen, he was killed after a car struck him as he was riding his bike in his neighborhood, eventually convinced to regroup, the brothers decided to record popular music and left Cincinnati for New York in 1957 with their parents blessings. With Ronnie assuming the lead position in the group, the group got into contact with Richard Barrett. The songs were only regional hits, however, by 1959, the group landed a recording deal with RCA Records. The original version of the peaked at 47 on the Billboard Hot 100
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Isley Brothers
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The Isley Brothers are an American musical group originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, originally a vocal trio consisting of brothers OKelly Isley, Jr. Rudolph Isley and Ronald Isley. The group has cited as having enjoyed one of the longest, most influential. Alongside a fourth brother, Vernon, the group performed gospel music until Vernons death a few years after its formation, initially a modest charted single, the song eventually sold over a million copies. Influenced by gospel and doo-wop music, the group experimenting with different musical styles incorporating elements of rock. The inclusion of younger brothers Ernie Isley and Marvin Isley, for the next full decade, they recorded top-selling albums including The Heat Is On and Between the Sheets. The six-member lineup of the band splintered in 1983, with Ernie, Marvin, eldest member OKelly died in 1986 and Rudolph and Ronald released a pair of albums as a duo before Rudolph retired for life in the Christian ministry in 1989. Ronald re-formed the group two years later in 1991 with Ernie and Marvin, five later in 1996, Marvin Isley left the group due to complications of diabetes. The remaining duo of Ronald and Ernie accomplished mainstream success with the albums Eternal and Body Kiss, with the former album spawning the top twenty hit, as of 2016, the Isley Brothers continue to perform under the lineup of Ronald and Ernie. The Isley Brothers have had four Top 10 singles on the United States Billboard chart, sixteen of their albums charted in the Top 40. Thirteen of those albums have been certified gold, platinum or multi-platinum by the RIAA. The brothers have been honored by several institutions including being inducted to the Rock. Five years later, they were inducted to Hollywoods Rockwalk and in 2003, were inducted to the Vocal Group Hall of Fame. The Isley Brothers originally came from Cincinnati, Ohio, and were raised at the citys Lincoln Heights suburb, patterning themselves after groups such as Billy Ward and his Dominoes and the Dixie Hummingbirds, the brothers began performing together in 1954. Eventually they landed a spot on Ted Macks Amateur Hour where they won the competition, with Vernon on lead vocals, the quartet soon began touring all over the eastern US regions performing in a variety of churches. When Vernon was thirteen, he was killed after a car struck him as he was riding his bike in his neighborhood, eventually convinced to regroup, the brothers decided to record popular music and left Cincinnati for New York in 1957 with their parents blessings. With Ronnie assuming the lead position in the group, the group got into contact with Richard Barrett. The songs were only regional hits, however, by 1959, the group landed a recording deal with RCA Records. The original version of the peaked at 47 on the Billboard Hot 100
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Composer
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A composer is a person who creates or writes music, which can be vocal music, instrumental music or music which combines both instruments and voices. The core meaning of the term refers to individuals who have contributed to the tradition of Western classical music through creation of works expressed in written musical notation, many composers are also skilled performers, either as singers, instrumentalists, and/or conductors. Examples of composers who are well known for their ability as performers include J. S. Bach, Mozart. In many popular genres, such as rock and country. For a singer or instrumental performer, the process of deciding how to perform music that has previously composed and notated is termed interpretation. Different performers interpretations of the work of music can vary widely, in terms of the tempos that are chosen. Composers and songwriters who present their own music are interpreting, just as much as those who perform the music of others, although a musical composition often has a single author, this is not always the case. A piece of music can also be composed with words, images, or, in the 20th and 21st century, a culture eventually developed whereby faithfulness to the composers written intention came to be highly valued. This musical culture is almost certainly related to the esteem in which the leading classical composers are often held by performers. The movement might be considered a way of creating greater faithfulness to the original in works composed at a time that expected performers to improvise. In Classical music, the composer typically orchestrates her own compositions, in some cases, a pop songwriter may not use notation at all, and instead compose the song in her mind and then play or record it from memory. In jazz and popular music, notable recordings by influential performers are given the weight that written scores play in classical music. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music. In the development of European classical music, the function of composing music initially did not have greater importance than that of performing it. The preservation of individual compositions did not receive attention and musicians generally had no qualms about modifying compositions for performance. In as much as the role of the composer in western art music has seen continued solidification, for instance, in certain contexts the line between composer and performer, sound designer, arranger, producer, and other roles, can be quite blurred. The term composer is often used to refer to composers of music, such as those found in classical, jazz or other forms of art. In popular and folk music, the composer is usually called a songwriter and this is distinct from a 19th-century conception of instrumental composition, where the work was represented solely by a musical score to be interpreted by performers
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Robert Moog
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Robert Arthur Bob Moog, founder of Moog Music, was an American engineer and pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer. During his lifetime, Moog founded two companies for manufacturing electronic musical instruments, a native of New York City, Moog attended the Bronx High School of Science in New York, graduating in 1952. For his undergraduate education, Moog completed a 3-2 engineering program, earning a B. S. in physics from Queens College, from the Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science in 1957. He received his Ph. D. in engineering physics from Cornell University in 1965, in 1953 at age 19, Moog founded his first company, R. A. Moog Co. to manufacture theremin kits, during the 1950s, composer and electronic music pioneer Raymond Scott approached Moog, asking him to design circuits for him. Moog later acknowledged Scott as an important influence, later, in the 1960s, the company was employed to build modular synthesizers based on Moogs designs. In 1972 Moog changed the name to Moog Music. Throughout the 1970s, Moog Music went through changes of ownership. Poor management and marketing led to Moogs departure from his own company in 1977, in 1978 after leaving his namesake firm, Moog started making electronic musical instruments again with a new company, Big Briar. Their first specialty was theremins, but by 1999 the company expanded to produce a line of effects pedals called moogerfoogers. In 1999, Moog partnered with Bomb Factory to co-develop the first digital effects based on Moog technology in the form of plugins for Pro Tools software, despite Moog Musics closing in 1993, Moog did not have the rights to market products using his own name throughout the 1990s. Big Briar acquired the rights to use the Moog Music name in 2002 after a battle with Don Martin who had previously bought the rights to the name Moog Music. At the same time, Moog designed a new version of the Minimoog called the Minimoog Voyager, the Voyager includes nearly all of the features of the original Model D in addition to numerous modern features. The Moog synthesizer was one of the first widely used musical instruments. Early developmental work on the components of the synthesizer occurred at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, while there, Moog developed the voltage controlled oscillators, ADSR envelope generators, and other synthesizer modules with composer Herbert Deutsch. Moog created the first voltage-controlled subtractive synthesizer to utilize a keyboard as a controller, in 1966, Moog filed a patent application for his unique low-pass filter U. S. Patent 3,475,623, issued in October,1969 and he is a listed inventor on ten US patents. Moog had his theremin company manufacture and market his synthesizers, unlike the few other 1960s synthesizer manufacturers, Moog shipped a piano-style keyboard as the standard user interface
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Juilliard School
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The Juilliard School located in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, is a performing arts conservatory established in 1905. It is informally referred to as Juilliard, the school trains about 850 undergraduate and graduate students in dance, drama, and music. It is widely regarded as one of the leading music schools. In 2016, QS Quacquarelli Symonds ranked it as the worlds best institution for Performing Arts in their global ranking of the discipline. The Institute opened in the former Lenox Mansion, Fifth Avenue and 12th Street and it moved in 1910 to 120 Claremont Avenue in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, onto a property purchased from Bloomingdale Insane Asylum. In 1920, the Juilliard Foundation was created, named after textile merchant Augustus D. Juilliard, in 1924, the foundation purchased the Vanderbilt family guesthouse at 49 E. 52nd Street and established the Juilliard Graduate School. In 1926, the Juilliard School of Music was created through a merger of the Institute of Musical Art, the two schools shared a common Board of Directors and President but retained their distinct identities. The conductor and music-educator Frank Damrosch continued as the Institutes dean, in 1937, Hutcheson succeeded Erskine as president of the two institutions, a job he held until 1945. In 1946, the Institute of Musical Art and the Juilliard Graduate School completely merged to form a single institution, the president of the school at that time was William Schuman, the first winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Schuman established the Juilliard String Quartet in 1946 and the Dance Division in 1951, William Schuman graduated from Columbias Teachers College and attended the Juilliard Summer School in 1932,1933 and 1936. While attending Juilliard Summer School, he developed a dislike for traditional music theory and ear training curricula, finding little value in counterpoint. L&M was Schumans reaction against more formal theory and ear training, the general mandate was to give the student an awareness of the dynamic nature of the materials of music. The quality and degree of each students education in harmony, music history or ear training was dependent on how each composer-teacher decided to interpret this mandate, William Schuman resigned as president of Juilliard after being elected president of Lincoln Center in 1962. Peter Mennin, another composer with experience at the Peabody Conservatory, was elected as his successor. Mennin made significant changes to the L&M program—ending ear training and music history, in 1968, Mennin hired John Houseman to manage a new Drama Division, and in 1969 oversaw Juilliards relocation from Claremont Avenue to Lincoln Center. Polisis many accomplishments include philanthropic successes, broadening of the curriculum, in 2001, the school established a jazz performance training program. In 1999, the Juilliard School was awarded the National Medal of Arts, in 2006, Juilliard received a trove of precious music manuscripts from board chair and philanthropist Bruce Kovner. Many of the manuscripts had been unavailable for generations,2, and manuscripts of Brahmss Symphony No.2 and Piano Concerto No.2
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Long Island University
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Long Island University is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian institution of higher education with locations and programs spanning the New York metropolitan area, overseas, and online. LIU has NCAA Division I and II athletics and hosts the annual George Polk Awards in Journalism. LIU was chartered in 1926 in Brooklyn by the New York State Education Department to provide “effective and moderately priced education” to people from walks of life. ”LIU Brooklyn is located in Downtown Brooklyn, at the corner of Flatbush. LIU Brooklyn is home to the NCAA Division I Blackbirds, the George Polk Awards for excellence in journalism, located in the town of Brookville on Long Islands Gold Coast, the original home, Warburton Hall, had been built by William A. Prime and was renovated by Marjorie and her second husband Edward F. Hutton. Three years later, the campus was renamed C. W. Post, in 2012, the university renamed all campuses. C. W. LIU Post is home to the NCAA Division II LIU Post Pioneers and Tilles Center for the Performing Arts. The school introduced its first online degree plan in 2004 On March 7,2013, LIU named Kimberly R. Cline as its 10th president, becoming the first woman to lead the private, six-campus institution. Dr. Cline outsourced the work of two groups of unionized workers on campus, and oversaw the lockout of 400 faculty on the day before the 2016-17 school year. In the first week of the term, some students at LIU Brooklyn staged a walkout in support of the locked-out teaching staff. With the 236 full-time faculty members and 450 adjuncts locked out, classes were taught by university administrators and temporary staff, the locked ended on September 14 with an agreement to continue the expired contract until May 31,2017 and resume negotiations with a mediator. LIU is administered by a president and board of trustees who elect the president, LIU Riverhead LIU Riverhead is home to the Homeland Security Management Institute, which offers homeland security training. The institute has been designated a Homeland Security Center of Excellence by the United States Congress, programs are also available in education, special education, literacy, communication studies, new media, cyber security, applied behavior analysis, and TESOL. The LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds compete in NCAA Division I intercollegiate athletics, the LIU Post Pioneers compete in NCAA Division II intercollegiate athletics. The LIU Public Radio Network broadcasts on 88.3 FM and 88.1 FM, the LIU television broadcasts on channels 95 and 96 on campus only LIU Brooklyns student newspaper is Seawanhaka, and LIU Posts student newspaper is The Pioneer. List of Long Island University people Official website LIU Brooklyn athletics LIU Post athletics Seawanhaka The Pioneer
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Billy Taylor
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William Billy Taylor was an American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster and educator. Critic Leonard Feather once said, It is almost indisputable that Dr. Billy Taylor is the worlds foremost spokesman for jazz, Taylor was born in Greenville, North Carolina, but moved to Washington, D. C. when he was five years old. He grew up in a family and learned to play different instruments as a child, including guitar, drums. He was most successful at the piano, and had classical piano lessons with Henry Grant, Taylor made his first professional appearance playing keyboard at the age of 13 and was paid one dollar. Taylor attended Dunbar High School, the U. S. s first high school for African-American students and he went to Virginia State College and majored in sociology. Pianist Dr. Undine Smith Moore noticed young Taylors talent in piano and he changed his major to music, Taylor moved to New York City after graduation and started playing piano professionally from 1944, first with Ben Websters Quartet on New Yorks 52nd Street. The same night he joined Websters Quartet, he met Art Tatum, among the other musicians Taylor worked with was Machito and his mambo band, from whom he developed a love for Latin music. After an eight-month tour with the Don Redman Orchestra in Europe, Taylor stayed there with his wife Theodora and worked in Paris and the Netherlands. Taylor returned to New York later that year and cooperated with Bob Wyatt and Sylvia Syms at the Royal Roost jazz club and Billie Holiday in a successful show called Holiday on Broadway. A year later, he became the house pianist at Birdland and performed with Charlie Parker, J. J. Johnson, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Taylor played at Birdland longer than any other pianist in the history of the club. In 1949, Taylor published his first book, a textbook about bebop piano styles. In 1952 Taylor composed one of his most famous tunes, I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free, nina Simone covered the song in her 1967 album Silk & Soul. The tune is known in the UK as a piano instrumental version. In 1958, he became the Musical Director of NBCs The Subject Is Jazz, Taylor also worked as a DJ and program director on radio station WLIB in New York in the 1960s. During the 1960s, the Billy Taylor Trio was a feature of the Hickory House on West 55th Street in Manhattan. From 1969 to 1972, he served as the director for The David Frost Show and was the first African American to lead a talk-show band. Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Benny Goodman and Buddy Rich were just a few of the musicians who played on the show, in 1981, Jazzmobile produced a jazz special for National Public Radio, for which the program received the Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcasting Programs. Jazzmobiles 1990 Tribute Concert to Dr. Taylor at Avery Fisher Hall, part of the JVC Jazz Festival, featured Nancy Wilson, Ahmad Jamal Trio and Terence Blanchard Quintet
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Teaneck, New Jersey
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Teaneck /ˈtiːnɛk/ is a township in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, and a suburb in the New York metropolitan area. As of 2010 it was the second-most populous among the 70 municipalities in Bergen County, behind Hackensack, independence followed the result of a referendum held on January 14,1895, in which voters favored incorporation by a 46–7 margin. To address the concerns of Englewood Townships leaders, the new municipality was formed as a township, on May 3,1921, and June 1,1926, portions of what had been Teaneck were transferred to Overpeck Township. Teaneck lies at the junction of Interstate 95 and the terminus of Interstate 80. The township is bisected into north and south portions by Route 4, commercial development is concentrated in four main shopping areas, on Cedar Lane, Teaneck Road, DeGraw Avenue, West Englewood Avenue and Queen Anne Road, more commonly known as The Plaza. Teanecks location at the crossroads of river, road, train, in 1965, Teaneck voluntarily desegregated its public schools, after the Board of Education approved a plan to do so by a 7–2 vote on May 13,1964. Teaneck has a population, with large Jewish and African American communities. The origin and meaning of the name Teaneck is not known, an alternative is from the Dutch Tiene Neck meaning neck where there are willows. The earliest uses of the word Teaneck were in reference to a series of Lenni Lenape Native American camps near the ridge formed by what became Queen Anne Road. Chief Oratam was the leader of a settlement called Achikinhesacky that existed along Overpeck Creek in the area near what became Fycke Lane. Early on the morning of November 20,1776, Washington rode by horseback from his headquarters in Hackensack through Teaneck, there he watched as 6,000 British troops travel up the river by boat. Throughout the war, both British and American forces occupied local homesteads at various times, and Teaneck citizens played key roles on both sides of the conflict, after the war, Teaneck returned to being a quiet farm community. Fruits and vegetables grown locally were taken by wagon to markets in nearby Paterson, New growth and development were spurred in the mid-19th century by the establishment of railroads throughout the area. Wealthy New Yorkers and others purchased large properties on which they built spacious mansions and they traveled daily to work in New York City, thus becoming Teanecks first suburban commuters. The largest estate built in Teaneck belonged to William Walter Phelps, in 1865, Phelps arrived in Teaneck and enlarged an old farmhouse into a large Victorian mansion on the site of the present Municipal Government Complex. Phelps Englewood Farm eventually encompassed nearly 2,000 acres of landscaped property within the part of Teaneck. Subsequent development and house construction were focused along the perimeters of the township, with the part of the community remaining a large property crisscrossed by roads. The Township of Teaneck was established on February 19,1895 and was composed of portions of Englewood Township, Ridgefield Township and Bogota
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Teaneck High School
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The school has been accredited since 1935 by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools. As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,295 students and 119.3 classroom teachers, there were 256 students eligible for free lunch and 81 eligible for reduced-cost lunch. The school was renovated in 2003–04, giving students new classrooms as well as a new student center, Teaneck has implemented two academies that focus on the sciences and the arts. Teanecks sports teams are nicknamed the Highwaymen, girls teams are called the Highwaywomen, the team name comes from the highwaymen who would seize money and belongings from those traveling along highways during the 17th and 18th century and for the schools location overlooking Route 4. The school was opened in the current building, which resembles a Tudor palace in 1928, honors courses were introduced in the 1960s. Teaneck has been a high school since the 1980s. In 1934, Teaneck High School became the first in the nation to offer a program in aviation as a component of its academic program. In May 1964, Teanecks schools were desegregated, after the districts board of education voted to implement a centralized sixth grade school that would serve the entire township. In 1972, the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey represented Teaneck High School student Abbe Seldin in her battle to play tennis at the school. The coach would not let her play for the mens team, Seldin won her case and later became the first woman at Syracuse University to win an athletic scholarship. In 1987, the school was the subject of a 20/20 documentary on the effects of Heavy Metal on students, on May 1,2014, more than 60 students were taken into police custody following a senior prank at Teaneck High School. Police Sergeant John Garland stated that the tables and vaseline-smeared doorknobs were the craziest thing ever seen in his 19 years as a police officer. In Newsweeks May 22,2007 issue, ranking the top high schools, Teaneck High School was listed in 1080th place. The school had been ranked 126th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, the magazine ranked the school 121st in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 102nd in the magazines September 2006 issue, in the fall of 2002, two academies, or schools within a school, were launched. Academy is a daily program that seeks to integrate technology, mathematics, science. Teaneck High School won the New Jersey State High School Chess Championship in 1997, shearwood McClelland won the national high school chess championship in 1994 and 1995, the first repeat champion in tournament history. In the 2009-10 school year, the competed in the North Jersey Tri-County Conference
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Caravan of Love
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Caravan of Love is a 1985 R&B hit originally recorded by Isley-Jasper-Isley, the second half of The Isley Brothers 3 +3 lineup of the 1970s. The music video was filmed on-location in New York City, the song was released on the greatest hits compilation Now Thats What I Call Quite Good. Gospel singer Marvin Sapp with Christian contemporary singer Bob Carlisle and jazz saxophonist Kirk Whalum from the WOW Gospel 2000 compilation, jazz artist Terry Callier on his 2002 album, Speak Your Peace. In 2004, German pop group Preluders covered the song on their album Prelude to History, british pop singer Pixie Lott released in November 2014 a charity version of the song as the lead single from her first hits collection Platinum Pixie. The song charted at #129 in the UK, eric Essix 2014 album The Isley Sessions
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Chaka Khan
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Chaka Khan is an American recording artist whose career has spanned five decades, beginning in the 1970s as the frontwoman and focal point of the funk band Rufus. Widely known as the Queen of Funk, Khan has won ten Grammys and has sold an estimated 70 million records worldwide, Khan was ranked at number 17 in VH1s original list of the 100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll. In 2015, she was nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for the second time, Khan was the first R&B artist to have a crossover hit featuring a rapper, with I Feel for You in 1984. In the course of her career, Khan has achieved three gold singles, three gold albums and one platinum album with I Feel for You. With Rufus, she achieved four gold singles, four gold albums, in December 2016, Billboard magazine ranked her as the 65th most successful dance artist of all-time. Chaka Khan was born Yvette Marie Stevens on March 23,1953 into an artistic, bohemian household in Chicago, Illinois. She is the eldest of five born to Charles Stevens and Sandra Coleman. She was raised in the Hyde Park area, an island in the middle of the madness of Chicagos rough South Side housing projects and her sister Yvonne later became a successful musician in her own right under the name Taka Boom. Her only brother, Mark, who formed the funk group Aurra and she has two other sisters, Zaheva Stevens and Tammy McCrary. Chaka Khan was raised as a Catholic and she attributed her love of music to her grandmother, who introduced her to jazz as a child. Khan became a fan of rhythm and blues music as a pre-teen and at eleven formed a group, the Crystalettes. Though many think that she was given the name Chaka while in the Panthers she has made it clear that her name Chaka Adunne Aduffe Hodarhi Karifi was given to her at age 13 by a Yoruba Baba. In 1969, she left the Panthers and dropped out of school, having attended Calumet High School. She began to perform in groups around the Chicago area, first performing with Cash McCalls group Lyfe, which included her then boyfriend Hassan Khan. She was asked to replace Baby Huey of Baby Huey & the Babysitters after Hueys death in 1970, the group disbanded a year later. While performing in bands in 1972, she was spotted by two members of a new group called Rufus and soon won her position in the group. They later signed with ABC Records in 1973, prior to signing with the label, she married on-and-off boyfriend Hassan Khan, changing her stage name to Chaka Khan. In 1973, Rufus released their eponymous debut album and that changed when Wonder himself collaborated with the group on a song he had written for Khan
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Shout! (album)
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Shout. is the debut album released by The Isley Brothers on the RCA Victor label in 1959. It was produced by Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore, the album was re-released in 1990 on the Collectables label after the album went out of print in the years since its release. The album was remastered and expanded for inclusion in the 2015 released CD box set The RCA Victor & T-Neck Album Masters, 1959-1983. The Isley Brothers Ronald Isley - lead vocals OKelly Isley, Jr. and Rudolph Isley - background vocals Technical Ray Hall - recording engineer Shout. at Discogs
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This Old Heart of Mine (album)
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This Old Heart of Mine is the fourth album released by The Isley Brothers in 1966, on the Tamla label. The album, their first with the seminal Detroit-based music label, other charted singles including Take Some Time Out for Love and I Guess Ill Always Love You. Defenders say this was/is totally irrelevant since it was a choice only. The Isley Brothers are today considered one of the seminal soul groups of their era. Despite the early success of their Motown debut, the Isley Brothers would be alienated from the label because it treated them as a second-string group and they soon left for Buddah Records and reforming their own T-Neck label in 1969, finding long-lasting success soon afterwards. All tracks written by Holland-Dozier-Holland, except where noted
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It's Our Thing
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Its Our Thing is the sixth album released by The Isley Brothers on their own T-Neck Records imprint on April 26,1969. Other hits off the album though it didnt chart included I Know Who You Been Socking It To and this album was also the Isleys first Top 40 record reaching #22 on the pop albums chart. Curiously, despite its importance in the career of the seminal group, the album was remastered and expanded for inclusion in the 2015 released CD box set The RCA Victor & T-Neck Album Masters, 1959-1983. All tracks written by Rudolph Isley, OKelly Isley and Ronald Isley, the Isley Brothers Ronald Isley - lead vocals OKelly Isley, Jr. Lehman - art direction James Kriegsmann Jr. - cover photography Its Our Thing at Discogs album back cover at funkmysoul. gr
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The Brothers: Isley
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The Brothers, Isley is the seventh album released by The Isley Brothers on their own T-Neck label on October 18,1969. The album yielded the Billboard Top 40 pop hit, I Turned You On and subsequent charters, Was It Good to You. and it was also their second full venture into funk music, a genre they would dominate in the coming years. The album was remastered and expanded for inclusion in the 2015 released CD box set The RCA Victor & T-Neck Album Masters, all tracks written by Rudolph Isley, OKelly Isley and Ronald Isley, except where noted. The Isley Brothers Ronald Isley - lead vocals OKelly Isley, Jr
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Get into Something
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Get Into Something is the eighth album released by The Isley Brothers on their T-Neck imprint on March 8,1970. Freedom, Girls Will Be Girls and If He Can You Can, the albums title track includes a James Brown styled give the drummer some breakdown that was highly influential on the New York b-boy dance scene. The drum break, along with the LPs scarcity, has made this the most valuable and it was remastered and expanded for inclusion in the 2015 released CD box set The RCA Victor & T-Neck Album Masters, 1959-1983. All tracks written by OKelly Isley, Ronald Isley and Rudolph Isley, Ronald Isley sings lead on all tracks except, The Isley Brothers Ronald Isley - lead vocals and background vocals OKelly Isley, Jr
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Givin' It Back
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Givin It Back is the ninth album released by The Isley Brothers on their T-Neck imprint on September 25,1971. Among the songs covered were Spill the Wine, Love the One Youre With. The Isleys perseverance paid off when their covers of Love the One Youre With, Lay Lady Lay, Bill Withers plays guitar on the Isleys version of his Cold Bologna. The album was remastered and expanded for inclusion in the 2015 released CD box set The RCA Victor & T-Neck Album Masters, the only other recording of Cold Bologna is found on the 1973 Bill Withers live album, Live at Carnegie Hall as Harlem/Cold Baloney. Ronald Isley - lead and background vocals OKelly Isley, Jr
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Brother, Brother, Brother
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Brother, Brother, Brother is the tenth album released by The Isley Brothers on their T-Neck imprint on July 1,1972. It was to be the Isleys last studio record with Buddah Records moving on to Epic in the middle of 1973. and their second venture into rock music, they didnt betray their soul and funk roots. The album featured the top 40 hit, Pop That Thang, the brothers also covered two more King songs including the title track and Sweet Seasons. The album was remastered and expanded for inclusion in the 2015 released CD box set The RCA Victor & T-Neck Album Masters, ronald Isley - lead and background vocals OKelly Isley, Jr
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Live It Up (The Isley Brothers album)
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Live It Up is the twelfth album released by The Isley Brothers on September 7,1974, their second major distributed album with Epic Records under their T-Neck subsidiary. The album was remastered and expanded for inclusion in the 2015 released CD box set The RCA Victor & T-Neck Album Masters, like their previous recording, their breakthrough 1973 album,3 +3, the album was assisted by the team of Malcolm Cecil and Robert Margouleff. The album also continued their trademark of mixing funky dance songs mixed with softer soul ballads. Another track, Aint I Been Good to You, would be sampled by UGK on the track One Day, all tracks written by Rudolph Isley, OKelly Isley, Ronald Isley, Ernie Isley, Marvin Isley and Chris Jasper, except where noted. Ronald Isley – lead vocals OKelly Isley, Jr. O. N. T. O, acoustic piano List of number-one R&B albums of 1974 The Isley Brothers-Live It Up at Discogs
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The Heat Is On (album)
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The Heat Is On is the thirteenth studio album by American soul and funk group The Isley Brothers, released June 7,1975 on T-Neck Records and Epic Records. Written and produced entirely by the group, the album was recorded in 1975 at Kendum Recorders in Burbank, the group implemented many acoustic and electric instruments during its recording, including guitar, piano, and synthesizer. Primarily a funk and soul outing, The Heat Is On features musical elements of quiet storm and rock music, the Heat Is On sold 500,000 copies in its first month of release and spent 40 weeks on the U. S. Billboard Pop Albums chart. It became the Isley Brothers first number-one album in the United States, the album initially received generally favorable reviews from publications, including The Village Voice, Melody Maker, and Rolling Stone. Music critics have cited the album as among the Isley Brothers best work. In 1999, The Heat Is On was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. It was reissued on disc in 2001 by Epic Records. The album was remastered and expanded for inclusion in the 2015 released CD box set The RCA Victor & T-Neck Album Masters, Recording sessions for the album took place in 1975 at Kendun Recorders in Burbank, California. It was mixed at Westlake Audio in Los Angeles, California, the album was entirely written and produced by the Isley Brothers. The Heat Is On is the album recorded by the Isley Brothers with keyboardist Chris Jasper, bassist Marvin Isley. Primarily a funk and soul outing, The Heat Is On features elements of quiet storm, the latter musical style is mostly provided by the Jimi Hendrix-influenced guitar of Ernie Isley. This musical formula for the album serves as a development of the transitional sound last featured on their landmark tenth album,3 +3. The Heat Is On is notable for its two singles, the albums angry funk opener Fight the Power and the melodic soul ballad For the Love of You. One critic cited the song as the Isley Brothers most overtly political tune to date. According to writer Colin Larkin, the albums contrasting sides, with one side comprising uptempo funk, side ones closer, Hope You Feel Better Love, contrasts both of the styles, as it contains melodic verses and a forceful chorus. Songs from The Heat Is On, including Fight the Power and For the Love of You, were sampled extensively by the generation of hip hop artists, including Slick Rick, Common. Upon its release, The Heat Is On received positive reviews from publications such as The Village Voice, Melody Maker. Christgau described the music as well-nigh flawless and stated Ronnie Isley isnt getting any less unctuous, Rolling Stones Bob Palmer wrote favorably of the Isley Brothers dance music sensibilities and cited The Heat Is On as some of the best body music around
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Harvest for the World
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Harvest for the World is the fourteenth album released by The Isley Brothers on their T-Neck imprint in May 29,1976. The album was remastered and expanded for inclusion in the 2015 released CD box set The RCA Victor & T-Neck Album Masters, the album included the successful socially conscious title track and the top three R&B record, Who Loves You Better. While not released as singles, the ballads You Are Love, the album sold over 500,000 copies in the first three weeks of release, making it one of the fastest-selling records ever. It topped the Billboard R&B Albums chart, the Isleys third straight album to do so, all tracks written by Ernie Isley, Marvin Isley, Chris Jasper, Rudolph Isley, OKelly Isley and Ronald Isley. Ronald Isley – lead vocals OKelly Isley, Jr. Aaliyah covered You Are Love on her album Age Aint Nothing, jewell covered Harvest for the World on the soundtrack album Murder Was the Case in 1994. Vanessa Williams covered Harvest for the World on her album Everlasting Love in 2005, ronnie Laws covered the entire album of Harvest for the World titled Portrait of the Isley Brothers Harvest for the World in 1998. Mike Francis covered Il Mio Amore Libero per Te on his album Misteria in 1998, the Christians famously covered Harvest for the World in 1988. The song reached #8 in the charts, list of number-one R&B albums of 1976 The Isley Brothers-Harvest For The World at Discogs
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Go for Your Guns
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Go for Your Guns is the fifteenth album by The Isley Brothers. Released on April 16,1977 on their T-Neck label, it was also the fifth album to be distributed by their deal with Epic. The album is considered by most Isley fans as their best effort overall, the album was remastered and expanded for inclusion in the 2015 released CD box set The RCA Victor & T-Neck Album Masters, 1959-1983. The album was engineered by John Holbrook assisted by Tom Mark and it was mixed at Media Sound in NYC with Holbrook as mix engineer. The album also noted Ron Isleys growing transition into singing more ballads, selling over two million copies, it eventually went double platinum and also hit number-one on the R&B albums chart. All tracks written by Rudolph Isley, OKelly Isley, Ronald Isley, Ernie Isley, Marvin Isley, J Dilla sampled Footsteps In The Dark on his song Wont Do on his album The Shining in 2006. Thundercat sampled Footsteps In The Dark on his song Them Changes on his mini-album The Beyond/Where The Giants Roam in 2015, list of number-one R&B albums of 1977 The Isley Brothers-Go For Your Guns at Discogs Go For Your Guns 2012
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Showdown (The Isley Brothers album)
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Showdown is the sixteenth album released by The Isley Brothers on their T-Neck imprint in April 22,1978. The album was remastered and expanded for inclusion in the 2015 released CD box set The RCA Victor & T-Neck Album Masters, 1959-1983. Spawning the #1 funk/disco hit, Take Me to the Next Phase and the top 20 R&B slower, Groove With You, though not released as a single, the smooth funk jam Coolin Me Out was also a hit. All tracks written by Ernie Isley, Marvin Isley, Chris Jasper, Rudolph Isley, OKelly Isley, Ronald Isley - lead and background vocals OKelly Isley, Jr. Chapter Four sampled and interpolated Groove With You on their song Fool With You on their hit single. Isaac 2 Isaac also sampled Groove With You on their song Ol Skool on the Russell Simmons Def Jam soundtrack album compilation The Show in 1995, list of number-one R&B albums of 1978 The Isley Brothers-Showdown at Discogs
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Winner Takes All (album)
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Winner Takes All is the seventeenth album by The Isley Brothers and released on T-Neck Records and their seventh record to be distributed by Epic Records on June 16,1979. The album included the number-one R&B hit, I Wanna Be With You, the album was remastered and expanded for inclusion in the 2015 released CD box set The RCA Victor & T-Neck Album Masters, 1959-1983. The album continued the brothers trademark of mixing uptempo funk numbers with softer soul balladry, however, their sound now included elements of disco. While some of their music had pioneered the genre, Winner Takes All was the first album to embrace disco rhythms, the disco element helped songs such as I Wanna Be With You and Its a Disco Night become hits. However, the band didnt release any ballads from the album, however, ballads like Youre Beside Me and How Lucky I Am still received airplay on quiet storm radio formats. The album was successful enough on both the pop and R&B album charts where it reached #14 and #3 respectively and eventually went gold after selling past 500,000 copies. All tracks written by Ernie Isley, Marvin Isley, Chris Jasper, Rudolph Isley, OKelly Isley, Ronald Isley - lead vocals OKelly Isley, Jr
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Go All the Way (The Isley Brothers album)
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Go All the Way is the eighteenth album released by The Isley Brothers for their T-Neck imprint in April 19,1980. The album was remastered and expanded for inclusion in the 2015 released CD box set The RCA Victor & T-Neck Album Masters, 1959-1983. The album is notable for the Billboard Top 40 and Billboard #1 R&B ballad, Dont Say Goodnight, All tracks written by Ernie Isley, Marvin Isley, Chris Jasper, Rudolph Isley, OKelly Isley and Ronald Isley. Ronald Isley - lead and background vocals OKelly Isley, Jr, will Smith sampled Here We Go Again on his song Yes Yes YAll on his album Big Willie Style in 1997. J Dilla sampled Dont Say Goodnight on his song Bye on his album Donuts in 2006, J Dilla sampled Dont Say Goodnight on his song So Far To Go on his album The Shining in 2006. UGK sampled Here We Go Again in their song The Pimp & The Bun featuring Ron Isley on their album UGK4 Life in 2009, list of number-one R&B albums of 1980 The Isley Brothers-Go All The Way at Discogs
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Grand Slam (The Isley Brothers album)
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Grand Slam is the 19th album by The Isley Brothers, released on their T-Neck imprint via CBS Records on March 21,1981. The album was remastered and expanded for inclusion in the 2015 CD box set The RCA Victor & T-Neck Album Masters, grand Slam was successful on both the pop and R&B album charts, where it reached #28 and #3, respectively. It eventually went gold after selling 500,000 copies, all tracks written by Ernie Isley, Marvin Isley, OKelly Isley, Ronald Isley, Rudolph Isley and Chris Jasper
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Inside You
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Inside You is the 20th album by The Isley Brothers released on T-Neck Records on December 1,1981. The album was remastered and expanded for inclusion in the 2015 released CD box set The RCA Victor & T-Neck Album Masters, the title track was one of their notable hits in the beginning of the 1980s though it didnt return the Isleys to their past glory. The older and younger Isleys, in the meantime, were arguing over the groups direction, disagreements would eventually lead to an implosion in the 3 +3 lineup. All tracks written by OKelly Isley, Rudolph Isley, Ernie Isley, Ronald Isley, Marvin Isley and Chris Jasper, Ronald Isley - Lead Vocals Rudolph Isley, OKelly Isley - Background Vocals Kermit Moore, Cello Johnathan Abramowitz, Cello Fred Zlotkin - Cello Alfred V
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The Real Deal (album)
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The Real Deal is the 21st album released by The Isley Brothers on August 7,1982. Despite hopes that the album will bring the Isleys back to the top of the charts, a year later the group will bounce back with Between the Sheets, which became the last album to feature Chris Jasper. Ronald Isley has since remained the groups most consistent of the members, All tracks written by Ernie Isley, Marvin Isley, Chris Jasper, Rudolph Isley, OKelly Isley and Ronald Isley. Brown, Mitsue Takayama - Viola 69 Boyz sampled All In My Lovers Eyes on their song Strip Club Luv on their album The Wait Is Over in 1998, the Isley Brothers-The Real Deal at Discogs
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Between the Sheets (The Isley Brothers album)
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Between the Sheets is the 22nd album released by The Isley Brothers on their T-Neck imprint on April 24,1983. The album is notable for the track, the follow-up hit Choosey Lover. The Isley Brothers recorded songs for the album to react to disappointing sales of their albums, Inside You and The Real Deal, albums that failed to sell, the group returned to Bearsville Studios in November 1982 to work on the album. Like previous albums, all the instrumentation and composition was handled by Chris Jasper, Ernie Isley, some songs were initially devised as songs for a splinter project the trio were working on. Adding additional composition, Ronald helped to compose Choosey Lover with the brothers with the melody based on Earth. Other songs reflected on social commentary included Slow Down Children, aimed at inner city youth, lead vocals in some songs were often shared by one or two of the brothers. But throughout the album, most of the album was vocally led by Ronald. Released the following April, the album returned the Isleys to the top of the R&B album charts, both Between the Sheets and Choosey Lover became top ten hits on the R&B charts with Between the Sheets performing below the Hot 100. Ballad for the Fallen Soldier and Lets Make Love Tonight were released as promotional singles, although it was not a single, the ballad Touch Me was also a hit. Eventually the album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipments of one million alone in the United States. The following year, due to tax problems the three elder Isley members were dealing with at the time, Ernie, Marvin and Chris Jasper left the group, all tracks written by Ernie Isley, Marvin Isley, Chris Jasper, Rudolph Isley, OKelly Isley and Ronald Isley. Ronald Isley - lead and background vocals OKelly Isley, Jr. I. G, sampled Between the Sheets on his song Big Poppa from his 1994 album Ready to Die. Keith Murray sampled Between the Sheets on his song The Most Beautifullest Thing in This World on his album The Most Beautifullest Thing in This World in 1994, da Brat sampled Between the Sheets on her song Funkdafied on her album Funkdafied in 1994. Aaliyah covered Choosey Lover on her album One in a Million in 1996, jay-Z sampled Ballad for the Fallen Soldier on his song A Week Ago on his album Vol.2. Jay-Z sampled Between the Sheets on his song Ignorant Sh*t on his album American Gangster in 2007, Whitney Houston sampled Between the Sheets on her song One of Those Days from her 2002 album Just Whitney. Gwen Stefani sampled Between the Sheets on her song Luxurious from her 2004 album Love, the Isley Brothers-Between The Sheets at Discogs
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Masterpiece (The Isley Brothers album)
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Masterpiece is the 23rd album released by The Isley Brothers on Warner Bros. Records on April 29,1985. For the first time since 1973, the Isley Brothers were a trio composed of the original members OKelly, Rudolph and it was the last album with OKelly Isley, he died a year after the albums release from a heart attack. The album is dedicated to their late brother Vernon Isley and their parents Sally & OKelly Isley Sr, the album liner notes were written by Elaine Isley. The album charted at #140 in the US Billboard 200 while only charting at #19 on the R&B album chart, colder Are My Nights peaked at #12 on the R&B charts, while May I. charted at #42 in 1986. Ronald Isley, lead vocals OKelly Isley, Jr
