ROY AYERS
Funk Jazz / RnB / Soul Jazz / Post Bop / Jazz Related Soundtracks / Eclectic Fusion • United States
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Roy Ayers was born on September 10, 1940 in Los Angeles. Thanks to his trombone playing father and piano teaching mother, he became immersed in music from day one and the story goes that he was given his first set of vibe mallets by his hero Lionel Hampton at the age of 5. Constantly performing and recording since the 1960s, he is one of the most famous jazz vibraphonists. He has produced some of the most loved modern soul-jazz records of all time such as, "Everybody Loves The Sunshine", most influential afro-jazz with musician Fela Anikulapo-Kuti (Africa - Centre Of The World) and the most seminal jazz-funk, such as "Running Away". And that's just the surface. 2004 saw the release of "Virgin Ubiquity: Unreleased Recordings 1976-1981" which were 'lost' sessions tapes that he had discarded. Gilles Peterson described this as the equivalent of finding a lost Beatles album. No doubt
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Ubiquity
Funk Jazz
1970
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Coffy
Jazz Related Soundtracks
1973
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Quartet
Funk Jazz
1976
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Fever
Funk Jazz
1979
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Drive
Funk Jazz
1988
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Wake Up
Funk Jazz
1989
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Nasté
Funk Jazz
1995
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Juice
Funk Jazz
1999
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Hot
Funk Jazz
1992
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Juice
Funk Jazz
1999
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