Roy Ayers started out as a jazz vibraphonist, influenced by the likes of Milt Jackson. The legendary vibes maestro Lionel Hampton gave Ayers his first pair of a mallets, and as a resident of South ...

The jazz-funk score to Coffy stands alongside the twin pillars of Shaft and Super Fly, bringing the bongos to every future ...

Roy Ayers, the legendary vibraphonist and ... “At the time, my mother and father told me he laid some spiritual vibes on me,” Ayers said at the time, adding that later he picked up the ...

Several years later, he released his debut album "West Coast Vibes" in 1963. The following decade saw him form Roy Ayers Ubiquity ... ended on a positive note: "We had high hopes I would recover ...

Roy Ayers, the legendary jazz-funk pioneer behind the evergreen hit “Everybody Loves The Sunshine”, has died after a long illness. He was 84. His death was confirmed by a statement on his ...