Roy Ayers/ Ubiquity S/D?

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if you're looking for more people that sound like ayers - smoothed out (in a good way) jazz funk with a slight disco edge and nice vocal harmonies - check out:

Donald Byrd
The Blackbyrds
Lonnie Liston Smith
Bobbi Humphrey
Johnny Hammond Smith
Gary Bartz

anybody produced by Larry Mizell

― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 12 May 2005 16:07 (eighteen years ago) link

oh yeah, Roy Ayers has an Afro Funk track with a rap in the middle of it on the Club Africa 2 comp.

and he has an album with Fela Kuti (that i haven't heard) called "Music of Many Colors" from 79

― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 12 May 2005 16:15 (eighteen years ago) link

i really used to love proceed 2 but i have to say it would be better without the dippy noodling over the top of the entire track.

― ronny longjohns (ronny longjohns), Friday, 13 May 2005 01:37 (eighteen years ago) link

freaky deaky freaky deaky

THE FONKY DONKY

Yeah

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Friday, 13 May 2005 01:40 (eighteen years ago) link

folks get down in the sunshine...

― vanessa novaeris (novaeris), Friday, 13 May 2005 01:47 (eighteen years ago) link

one year passes...

in mystic voyage i'm always faintly and irrationally annoyed by the lyrics

"You wanted to be free, yeah
you never did love me, no baby
Now maybe you're happy I'm going away
leavin on a mystic voyage"

i mean, fair play to her for leaving a guy, its probably for the best, but lets not glamourize it, its hardly a mystic voyage. last time i got dumped, she wasnt going off on some mystic voyage, she'd met some other guy from kentish town

― 696, Friday, 11 May 2007 13:57 (sixteen years ago) link

and fun though the 134 is, it is not anything like a mystic voyage

― 696, Friday, 11 May 2007 13:58 (sixteen years ago) link

one year passes...

How is this thread not, like, 900 messages long?

― Eric H., Thursday, 13 November 2008 06:19 (fifteen years ago) link

Love Fantasy

― Thugocrat (PappaWheelie V), Thursday, 13 November 2008 06:21 (fifteen years ago) link

Yeah, I picked up Anthology the other day super cheap and it's bleeding great.

― sam500, Thursday, 13 November 2008 06:24 (fifteen years ago) link

Both sides of this Ayers-produced Jaymz Bedford 12" are gold!

― Eric H., Thursday, 13 November 2008 06:40 (fifteen years ago) link

one year passes...

"I believe in the spirit of doo doo"????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 20:44 (thirteen years ago) link

four months pass...

not enough about him on ilx tbh

― *sets trend* (deej), Monday, 13 September 2010 00:40 (thirteen years ago) link

my life my life my life my life

in the sunshiiiiine

― dmr, Monday, 13 September 2010 01:09 (thirteen years ago) link

never sought this dude out before! man the synths in everybody loves the sunshine are a huge joy.

― arby's, Monday, 13 September 2010 01:16 (thirteen years ago) link

search:
mystic voyage
coffy ost
everybody loves the sunshine

(what else? red black and green? he's coming?)

― dmr, Monday, 13 September 2010 03:14 (thirteen years ago) link

"We Live in Brooklyn Baby"

― dmr, Monday, 13 September 2010 03:14 (thirteen years ago) link

red black and green

― hobbes, Monday, 13 September 2010 04:18 (thirteen years ago) link

eight months pass...

i'm completely in love with "We Live in Brooklyn Baby" (heard it on the W+L/Soul Clap 5 Years at the Marcy mix) and i'm hoping that its indicative of how incredibly awesome the rest of the guy's output is b/c i'm really looking forward to gorging on it asap. just judging by album titles alone i am super excited. that and the fact that he specialized in the vibraphone

― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 24 May 2011 17:06 (twelve years ago) link

this album is pretty good, mellow jazz-funk with a pronounced jesus freak vibe (the "he" who's coming) also includes "we live in brooklyn baby"

http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/a/ayers_roy~~_hescoming_101b.jpg

― backlash stan straw man fan (m coleman), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 20:52 (twelve years ago) link

disappointed by that album on first listen. "we live in brooklyn baby" is so slinky and hungry... the rest of the album seemed meh. its driving me crazy that i can't think of what song sampled the wiggly keyboard bit from "he's a superstar", though.

― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 25 May 2011 22:02 (twelve years ago) link

oh, its dj sprinkles - "sisters, i don't know what this world is coming to"

― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 25 May 2011 22:25 (twelve years ago) link

Coffey soundtrack is among the best stuff I've heard of his

― blank, Thursday, 26 May 2011 00:21 (twelve years ago) link

nine years pass...

happy 80th birthday to roy ayers!!

― the late great, Friday, 11 September 2020 03:41 (three years ago) link

https://youtu.be/CghK8iVUHBs

― the late great, Friday, 11 September 2020 03:56 (three years ago) link

Really should have grabbed the rest of the reissues whenever that was. I mean to be a fan of this type of stuff and not have all the early 70s Ubiquity really shouldn't be done should it?

I just saw that the lp before Ubiquity has Sonny Sharrock on so wondering how feral he is in th egroove.

― Stevolende, Friday, 11 September 2020 09:40 (three years ago) link

Could do with an Original album series of that early stuff. BUt is it more likely to be later 70s material that would get one?

― Stevolende, Friday, 11 September 2020 09:50 (three years ago) link

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