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      • Roy Ayers (born September 10, 1940) is an American vibraphonist, record producer and composer. 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.
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    Roy Ayers (born September 10, 1940) is an American vibraphonist, record producer and composer. [1] 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. [2]

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    American funk, soul and jazz vibraphone player, composer and producer, born on 10 September 1940 in Los Angeles. California. 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.

  4. Sep 10, 2024 · Roy Ayers is a hugely influential musical pioneer who changed people’s perceptions of the vibraphone. First commercially produced in 1924, the vibraphone is an electric-powered tuned...

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  5. Sep 19, 2016 · Roy Ayers. Jazz composer and vibraphonist Roy Ayers was born on September 10, 1940 in Los Angeles, California to Ruby Ayers and Roy Ayers, Sr. Ayers’ mother, a schoolteacher and piano instructor, began teaching him music when he was only a toddler.

  6. Feb 4, 2021 · A prominent figure through this era is Roy Ayers. The famed vibraphonist who brought Everybody Loves The Sunshine to the world—which remains one of the most sampled track of all time—moved a great number of the 90s and early 2000s hip-hop and R’n’B artists: A Tribe Called Quest, Biggie, Souls of Mischief, Tupac, Erykah Bad u, Pete Rock ...

  7. Jul 1, 2020 · Oft-sampled vibraphonist Roy Ayers will turn 80 this fall, and his new album, recorded in L.A. on the Jazz Is Dead label, is both silky-smooth and prescient.

  8. Nov 20, 2023 · Roy Ayers - vibraphone, composer, bandleader, recording artist. Roy Ayers was during the 1960s one of the most prominent and leading jazz vibraphone players in America. During the 1970s and 80s he came to change his focus and became one of the leading figures in R&B and jazz/funk.