Roy Ayers

vibraphone, keyboards, vocals · 1940 · Los Angeles

Vibraphonist from Los Angeles, first post-bop on Atlantic, he founded Ubiquity and made Polydor a laboratory for jazz-funk. He is considered a figure of acid jazz and is heavily sampled by hip-hop.

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Styles

• Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk
• Soul jazz, boogaloo
• Acid jazz, jazz-rap, nu jazz

Landmark tracks

• Coffy Is the Color (1973)
• Priscilla's Theme (1973)
• Coffy Baby (1973)
• Exotic Dance (1973)
• Everybody Loves the Sunshine (1976)
• Take a Look (At Yourself) (1993)

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