Wayman Tisdale News

On Sunday , the late Wayman Tisdale was posthumously honored as he was inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in Kansas City, Mo., for his outstanding basketball career at the University of Oklahoma.

Toby Keitha s follow-up to his politically charged video for a oeAmerican Ridea is decidedly more seriousa and more personal.

Toby Keith 's new single, "Cryin' for Me ," was written for the funeral of Wayman Tisdale , a basketball great, jazz musician and someone Keith calls "the closest walking thing I've ever seen to Jesus himself." So I don't even need to see the whole video to know how poignant it will be.

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Sensual messages and sentimental ballads have been Eric Benet 's vocal forte since the '90s, when his steamy duet 'Spend My Life with You" with Tamia not only topped the R&B charts, but earned him the first of three Grammy nominations.

Some of our state's music icons will be honored when the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame holds its big event Wednesday at the Jazz Depot, 111 E. First St.

On the late Wayman Tisdale 's final album, last year's Rebound , the bassist recruited good friend and fellow Oklahoman, country music superstar Toby Keith , to sing on a cover of Barry White 's "Never, Never Gonna Give Ya Up." Now, on Keith's just-released CD titled American Ride , the singer-songwriterA has writtenA a song for his friend that he ...

"American Ride" proved to be the fastest-rising single in a career filled with major accomplishments.

Saxophonist Tom Braxton , a good friend of the late Wayman Tisdale who often performed with him, today, October 6, releases a new CD, Endless Highway .

On Saturday, October 3, basketball and smooth jazz great Wayman Tisdale was posthumously honored by the Jim Thorpe Rehabilitation Hospital in Oklahoma City.

Recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees KISS return with their first new studio album in more than a decade, which band co-founder/vocalist/guitarist Paul Stanley produced.

There's a little less bluster and bravado on Toby Keith's latest album, "American Ride," and it's a welcome turn.

The honors keeping coming in for the late smooth jazz bassist Wayman Tisdale as he has been named one of the 2009 inductees to the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame.

It's the 'Talk of the Town"after producing a slew of #1 and top five hits as a producer, Darren Rahn achieves #1 on Billboard as a solo artist.

Western swing pioneer Bob Wills and Wayman Tisdale, the former all-star basketball star who become one of the top artists in contemporary smooth jazz, are among the 2009 inductees to the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame.

A popular smooth jazz festival is offering two priceless smooth jazz collectibles for sale that will benefit the Wayman Tisdale Foundation.

"Ooooh, that smell / Can't you smell that smell / Ooooh, that smell / The smell of death surrounds you"A A A A A A A A - Lynyrd Skynyrd At first, I told myself it was a combination of coincidence and getting older: the longer you cover celebrities, the more of them you know and the more you know about them, so the more you notice.A A But it can't ...

The 12th annual Kettle Moraine Jazz Festival at West Bends Riverside Park Friday, September 11 - Saturday, September 12, features more than international musicians, cuisine, and artwork.

DeKalb residents will have the chance to beat the summer heat with cool jazz as a Dunwoody restaurant prepares for its sixth annual Summer Jazz Series.

Most athletes who moved into the recording business during the '90s found rap to be their forte, but Wayman Tisdale shifted the field to contemporary jazz with his 1995 debut album Power Forward, recorded for the Motown subsidiary MoJazz.