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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 this helped him win the Gilles Peterson 2004 Worldwide Lifetime Achievement Award. Roy Ayers is ageless and evergreen and as per the title of another one of hits, remember “We All Live In Brooklyn Baby”.

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1	Everybody Loves The Sunshine full track	408
2	Running Away full track	335
3	Coffy Is the Color	246
4	Aragon full track	200
5	Searching full track	188
6	Love will bring us back together full track	140
7	Mystic Voyage full track	94
8	The Memory full track	93
9	Don't Stop the Feeling full track	83
10	We Live In Brooklyn, Baby full track	82
11	He's A Superstar full track	78
12	The Third Eye full track	49
13	Evolution full track	48
14	The Golden Rod full track	44
14	Can't You See Me full track	44

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Norfeest wrote:
September 2009

Happy Belated Birthday Roy...

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pachanka wrote:
August 2009

Who played the flute with this guy?

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TooMuchSoul wrote:
July 2009

MrBrYcE: My selections for the best Roy Ayers jazz albums are West Coast Vibes (1963, United Artists) and Virgo Vibes (1967, Atlantic)-- his earliest albums. Stoned Soul Picnic and Daddy Bug & Friends also contain decent material, but at times hint towards the direction of Ayers' later outings.

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MrBrYcE wrote:
July 2009

too much funk too much singing, anyone knows of his most jazzy works ? which would it be ?

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R0B0TRON wrote:
May 2009

BLAST. Roy Ayes music makes me relaxified.

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Vomiticus wrote:
May 2009

I have most of his albums mystic voyage is probably his best.

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Uwontneedsalt wrote:
April 2009

Godfather to most good genres. Ahead of his time

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zapatosgrandes wrote:
March 2009

beautiful in every way!

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kasiowa wrote:
March 2009

..Absorbing;) !

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mori-umi wrote:
March 2009

very cool!!

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mistab0310 wrote:
March 2009

LOVING everything i've heard so far!

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rottmadgers wrote:
March 2009

"Coffy" is great!

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TippinMyStuff wrote:
March 2009

woww

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demdix wrote:
March 2009

The Virgin Ubiquity Unreleased albums are really good.. not Roy singing though. Other than that 'Everyone Loves The Sunshine' is pretty cool; it has.. Hey Uh - What You say Come on, Everybody loves the Sunshine, It Ain't Your Sign It's Your Mind & Lonesome Cowboy. His newer album 'Mahogany Vibe' is really really good. The anthology 'Destination Motherland' would be the 1 I would grab for a desert island.. although my favourite track 'Poo Poo La La' from Mastercuts Classic Jazz Funk 2 would be sorely missed.

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ZipZapRap wrote:
February 2009

vote new pic!

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johnbutterfield wrote:
February 2009

Hey PFE2008, thats it, sigh. Wow, thanks fella. Will try 'you send me' too. Do you remember 'I didn't mean it' by Sass? Can't find that one anywhere!

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PFE2008 wrote:
January 2009

xguiltparadeX, "you send me" is another great album to start with

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PFE2008 wrote:
January 2009

Johnbutterfield, the track might be "sigh" from his album "love fantasy"

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ItalGalore wrote:
January 2009

"everybody loves the sunshine" is a great start. "vibrations" may also be a good choice

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XguiltparadeX wrote:
January 2009

which album to start with? any suggestions?

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