Roy ayers born september 10 1940 is an american funk soul and jazz composer vibraphone player and music producer.
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His tunes are shaped by sophistication and elegance and his soul jazz afro beats influences brought to us the timeless everybody loves the sunshine running away and even the more recent good vibrations.
One of roy ayers biggest albums ever and also one of his deepest too.
Good good music bbe music continues its long and fertile partnership with vibraphone legend and godfather of neo soul roy ayers with the first ever reissue of his 1983 album silver vibrations.
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The whole thing s an incredible album of mellow jazzy soul and it shows roy at the crossroads perfecting his earlier funk style with a sweet mellow r b edge getting a bit slicker but still staying on the righteous path and opening up a whole new bag in soul music.
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Roy ayers music survived the test of time as well as roy himself for he kept the original noble spirit as a composer and player.
Silver vibrations by roy ayers released 22 march 2019 1.
One of roy ayers most slept on albums this is the literal template for all things deep in house and techno.
City a close companion of ubiquity s original recording of the third eye is in many ways quintessentially roy ayers.
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The lineage from the jazz fifths in the album s 80s boogie vocoder funker fast money goes straight to carl craig and henrik schwarz.
Ayers began his career as a post bop jazz artist releasing several albums with atlantic records before his tenure at polydor records beginning in the 1970s during which he helped pioneer jazz funk.
He is a key figure in the acid jazz movement and has been dubbed the.
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