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Two hours of Roy Ayers as a sideman, and his earlier work as a leader
by Andy Crowther
A real journey of discovery and education for me here, I learnt so much and hope you do too. Two hours of Roy as a sideman, and his early work as a leader. Playlist Curtis Amy Featuring Victor Feldman “A Soulful Bee, A Soulful Rose" from Way Down (Pacific Jazz) 00:00 Gerald Wilson Orchestra “Lighthouse Blues" from On Stage (Pacific Jazz) 09:48 Curtis Amy “Tippin' on Through" from Tippin' On Through (Pacific Jazz) 17:13 Vi Redd “Medley: Perhaps ...
Continue ReadingRoy Ayers, Kwashibu Area Band, Red Snapper, Calibro 35, Manu Dibango, John Lamkin, & More
by Tony Poole
The show opens with a brief tribute to the late Roy Ayers and a special moment from my 1990 interview for BBC Essex with Roy during his first residency at Ronnie Scott's. In a jovial mood, he recalls the time he “felt like a Beatle"--a wild night at the Hammersmith Odeon, London, in 1978 when the crowd rushed the stage. Check out this hilarious clip. Playlist Roy Ayers “I felt like a Beatle" interview clip Roy Ayers “Everytime ...
Continue ReadingRoy Ayers: A Retrospective
by Jason Elias
Vibraphonist, singer and producer Roy Ayers is a master of many musical styles and genres, from acid-jazz, jazz-funk to romantic ballads and dance tracks. While many of his contemporaries seemed to fail when they tried different sounds, Ayers always made sure a certain of musicality and identity was apparent in all of his work. Ayers's first album was 1963's West Coast Vibes and it was issued on United Artists Records. Ayers spent the next few years as a ...
Continue ReadingRoy Ayers at Yoshi's
by Walter Atkins
Roy Ayers is Everywhere Yoshi's Oakland Oakland California November 27, 2015 The venerable vibraphonist Roy Ayers and his seasoned band performed during a sold out weekend at the East Bay's popular Yoshi's in Oakland's Jack London Square. The exuberant 75-year-old composer /musician opened the exciting second show with “Sweet Tears." Ayers surprised the full house by taking his band into his arrangement of Rick James' funky number one RB hit “Give It To Me Baby" ...
Continue ReadingRoy Ayers: West Coast Vibes
by Nic Jones
Roy Ayers had a career before he had hit records, and this reissue proves the vibraphonist was both well-versed and eloquent within the realm of post-bop jazz. In the company largely of a cast including pianist Jack Wilson and Curtis Amy on tenor and soprano saxophones, Ayers works his way through the kind of programme of standards and originals that was pretty much the order of the day back in the early 1960s. This does not, however, alter the fact ...
Continue ReadingRoy Ayers: Roy Ayers: Virgin Ubiquity: Remixed
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il successo - meritato - delle raccolte del materiale inedito del vibrafonista Roy Ayers della seconda metà degli anni Settanta - i volumi della BBE/Rapster si trovano sotto la denominazione Virgin Ubiquity - porta ora a un naturale esito di remix, con un corposo doppio CD in cui alcuni nomi di punta della scena house e non solo, si cimentano con i grooves del riverito maestro jazz-funk. Naturale davvero questo esito, dal momento che la direzione dei lavori di Ayers ...
Continue ReadingRoy Ayers: Stoned Soul Picnic
by Douglas Payne
Stoned Soul Picnic is vibraphonist Roy Ayers' third and probably best solo album, made in 1968 while he was still a part of Herbie Mann's group. Ayers stands clearly in the shadow of Bobby Hutcherson on this primarily modally-oriented date, sounding nothing like the groove-meister he would become known as later in the 1970s.Producer Mann, always an underrated talent scout, assembles an especially exceptional septet for Ayers here with Gary Bartz on alto sax, arranger Charles Tolliver on ...
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