In 1984, the six-member group disbanded, primarily due to tax and other financial problems that did not involve the younger members of the group. Jasper's arrangements, instrumentation, and unique chord structures as a classically trained musician have been credited as the foundation of the legendary "Isley Brothers sound", which Jasper has continued in his own solo recordings. Between The Sheets was their final album as a six-member group. Jasper was the primary songwriter, producer, and arranger of The Isley Brothers music from 1973 ( 3+3) through 1983 ( Between the Sheets), with contributions by younger members Ernie and Marvin Isley. Although all six members of the Isley Brothers are credited as songwriters of the music from the 3+3 era, this was a business arrangement and does not reflect the creative reality. Their debut release during this time was the 3+3 album. In 1973, Jasper, Marvin, and Ernie brought the songwriting and musical component to the older Isley Brothers' vocal trio, transitioning the Isley Brothers into a self-produced, self-contained six-member R&B/Funk band. Jasper's first of many songs written for the Isley Brothers was "Love Put Me on a Corner" released on the Isleys' Brother, Brother, Brother album in 1972. While still in college, Jasper, Ernie, and Marvin toured with the older Isley Brothers and played on the earlier recordings, including "It's Your Thing". Along with Jasper, Marvin and Ernie also attended C.W. The band played local gigs in the New Jersey area. While living temporarily in Teaneck with his sister as a young teenager and attending Teaneck High School, Jasper and the two younger Isleys, Marvin and Ernie, formed a band, "The Jazzman Trio" with Jasper on keyboards, Ernie on drums, and Marvin on bass. His vocal trio formed by the three older brothers, Rudolph, Ronald and O'Kelly, subsequently relocated to Teaneck, New Jersey. While still living in Cincinnati, Jasper's older sister, Elaine, married Rudolph Isley. The Jasper and Isley families lived in the same apartment complex in Cincinnati. He subsequently graduated from Concord University School of Law. Post, Long Island University, New York, where he studied with jazz pianist and composer Billy Taylor and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in music composition. After graduating from high school in Cincinnati, he moved to New York to study music composition at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City. The youngest of seven siblings, he started studying classical music at the age of 7 at the suggestion of his mother, Elizabeth. Jasper is a classically trained musician and composer. JSTOR ( June 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).
Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. Isley, Jasper, Isley could not repeat the success, however, and the partnership dissolved in the late Eighties.This section needs additional citations for verification. No one was more thrilled than its originators when the Housemartins took “Caravan of Love” to number one at Christmas, 1986.
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It languished on America’s R&B charts for a full six months, until four white boys from Hull picked it up and made it part of their live a cappella act. Jasper described listening to the playbacks as like hearing a film score unfold.
It was recorded at a studio in East Orange, New Jersey, as the title track to their second album, with Jasper taking keyboard and lead vocal duties and Ernie and Marvin on everything else. The place where mankind was born/ Is so neglected and torn.” It wasn't quite William Blake, but tethered to the exquisite melody that had been bugging Jasper for weeks, the song glides in on a positive note. “Are you ready for the time of your life?/ It's time to stand up and fight. Sitting with a blank notepad one afternoon, Jasper began scribbling his thoughts. “I wasn't pleased with what I was seeing.” Jasper's message of hope was written around a tune he been humming for a month. “I had been looking at the world scene quite a bit,” said Jasper. Their enchanting hit, “Caravan of Love”, follows in the tracks of the O’Jays’ “Love Train”: an appeal for all-comers to jump aboard and unite in global amity. Jasper, who'd become the group's foremost arranger and songwriter, teamed up with Ernie and Marvin to form a new threesome, with a typically Eighties name that makes them sound like a firm of corporate attorneys: Isley, Jasper, Isley. A decade on, with a succession of modern soul classics behind them, the family split. In 1973, the Isley Brothers vocal trio expanded to embrace three younger relatives, the brothers Ernie and Marvin Isley and their brother-in-law Chris Jasper.
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