By the mid-1960s he had gone in a slightly different direction, joining the Ike and Tina Turner Revue.

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Besides Seger, the Osmonds and Ike and Tina Turner, Jackson's songs were also recorded by James Brown, Wilson Pickett and Clarence Carter.

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Eventually, he worked as a sideman with Jimmy Witherspoon, and with Ike and Tina Turner, and he continued to make his own recordings as a leader, something he began doing while still in Coltrane's group.

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Tina, at fifty-three, is still performing and recording, and in the absence of the snuffed-out-in-her-prime option, the screenwriter, Kate Lanier, and the director, Brian Gibson, have constructed the movie as a kind of feminist survival story: Tina (Angela Bassett) rises to fame as part of a husband-and-wife act, the Ike and Tina Turner Revue, but then breaks away from her brutal, domineering spouse (Laurence Fishburne) and climbs back to the top of the charts on her own.

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