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Jazz Artist, Basketball Star Wayman Tisdale Dies

Jazz musician, basketball star, and BMI composer Wayman Tisdale died May 15 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was 44 years-old and had battled cancer for two years. Throughout his musical career, Tisdale released eight albums, the majority of which climbed to the top ten region of Billboard’s contemporary jazz chart. 2001’s Face to Face and 2006’s Way Up! soared to the top of the chart, underscoring Tisdale’s substantial…