Roy Ayers

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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	536
2	Running Away full track	336
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4	We Live In Brooklyn, Baby full track	147
5	Aragon full track	139
6	Love will bring us back together full track	134
7	The Memory full track	122
8	Don't Stop the Feeling full track	102
9	Mystic Voyage full track	99
10	He's A Superstar full track	84
11	Coffy Is the Color	76
12	The Third Eye full track	73
13	The Golden Rod full track	58
14	Can't You See Me full track	57
15	Pretty Brown Skin	48

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coffeeandpigs wrote:
Wednesday evening

cannot get enough of Everybody Loves The Sunshine right now

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teleneo wrote:
18 days ago

luv his music!

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superspongebob wrote:
19 days ago

man this is super

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chillhood wrote:
last month

http://www.last.fm/group/Black+Jazz+Records

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mugshot_tim wrote:
January 2010

One of finest vibes players out-side of Lionel Hampton..

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KOSAir23 wrote:
January 2010

'mógłbym cały dzień dłubać przy wersach, słuchać z winyla Coffy Roya Ayersa...' respect

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PFE2008 wrote:
January 2010

I went to see Roy last night at the Jazz Cafe . . . . the man is legend!!

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csankurgoyal wrote:
January 2010

nice in everything

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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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