Roy Ayers Ubiquity [2023] - Paul Simpson Uniquity Mixes [Simphouse Productions]

A set of three Roy Ayers remixes by Paul Simpson with some of Ayers' most iconic dance tracks. For anyone around in the late 70s these will be etched on their brains as they were club classics. The first from 1977 and the other two from 1979.

1 - Running away (Paul Simpson Uniquity Special Disco Version) 4:59

2 - Don't stop the feeling (Paul Simpson Uniquity Special Disco Version) 5:33

3 - Love will bring us back together (Paul Simpson Uniquity Special Disco Version) 5:52

Full tracks are available to listen to on Paul's dedicated website available for a two weeks only. 

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Details

Rating:	8.4
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Jazz Funk
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	Simphouse Productions
Cat No:	None
Date:	07/2023
Key/BPM:	N/A
Price:	$9.99

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Roy Ayers [2023] Good Good Music / Chicago [Expansion (Uno Melodic Records) #EX7043]

To commemorate the 40th anniversary of Roy Ayers "Silver Vibrations" album on Uno Melodic, Expansion Records has released two tracks ("Good Good People" and "Chicago") from it for the first time on 45.

NOTE, the tracks below are the full album tracks which have been edited down for 45 release.

We did a profile on Roy Ayers for his 82nd birthday last year, so to learn more about him click HERE.

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Details

Rating:	8.4
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Jazz Funk
Format:	Single
Media:	7" Vinyl
Label:	Expansion
Cat No:	None
Date:	29/06/2023
Key/BPM:	10B/127 / 8B/115
Price:	£12-£14

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Ferry Ultra Feat. Roy Ayers [2023] - Dangerous Vibes (Emmaculate Remixes) [Peppermint Jam]

A Ferry Ultra evergreen, "Dangerous Vibes" featuring Roy Ayers on vocals and vibes, gets a makeover. The track has seen several releases and different mixes over the yeas beginning its life in 1996.

Chicago DJ/producer/engineer Emmaculate (Eric Welton) gets his teeth into the track with three new remixes, well a short, long and instrumental version at least.

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Details

Rating:	8.3
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Soulful House / Remix
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	Self Released
Cat No:	None
Date:	10/03/2023
Key/BPM:	4A/124
Price:	£1.98

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Roy Ayers - A Profile

Roy Ayers celebrated his 82nd birthday yesterday. He was born in L.A. on 10 Sep 1940 to musical parents, his father played trombone and mother the piano.

He began his musical career in 1961 and released his first album "West Coast Vibes" in 1963 on United Artists. Later that year he featured on vibraphone on "The Jack Wilson Quartet" album and another in 1966 "Ramblin'" joining flutist Herbie Mann the same year. The first Jack Wilson Quarter album was released on Atlantic who must have seen something in him as he proceeded to release his next three albums on the label in 1967, 1968 and 1969 all produced by Herbie Mann. Some jazz heavyweights were on the sessions including Gary Bartz (sax), Ron Carter (bass), Grady Tate (drums).

Story has it that Ayers was taken to see jazz band leader and vibraphonist Lionel Hampton at the Paramount Theatre when was 5 years old and during the concert Hampton interacted with the crowd and handed him a pair of vibraphone mallets, and the rest is history!

In 1970 he signed with Polydor releasing "Ubiquity" under his own name but later formed six piece band Roy Ayers Ubiquity. He released around 9 studio albums and a live album as Roy Ayers Ubiquity between 1972-77 and around another 50 under his own name. By an standards that is phenomenal output, 60 albums in as many years since he debuted. Then  there are the multitude of albums he has featured on. His latest album was recorded in 2020 "Jazz Is Dead 2".

Ayers is regarded as a pioneer in both jazz-funk and also acid jazz. As a predominantly album artist he didn't trouble the charts too much with singles with none reaching the Billboard Hot 100 although he had a total of fifteen enter the R&B chart with six reaching the top 40. His two biggest records must be "Everybody Loves The Sunshine", which has legendary status amongst hip-hoppers having been heavily sampled, and of course his biggest chart success "Running Away" (#19 R&B)

"Running Away" was first sampled by Eastbound Expressway on "Never Let Go", a disco song contrived by Ian Levine with Fiachra Trench in 1978. The most well know sample of it is probably by A Tribe Called Quest in 1989 on "Description Of A Fool".

A lot of music to wade through, but here's a selection of 20 of his best!

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Roy Ayers [1979] - What You Won't Do For Love [Polydor #PD 2066]

How many versions of this have been doing the rounds this year? I can recall at least six Roneice Levias (Mar.), Saucy Lady (Mar.), Judith N Benoit (Apr.) Soultry (May), Temica Key (Oct.) and Snoh Aalegra (Oct.). 

Here's one of the best versions that I had completely forgotten about until I came across it doing the Terri Wells post. A superb version of Bobby Caldwell's "What You Won't Do For Love" by vibes maestro Roy Ayers from 1979 released as a single and an extended album track from "No Stranger To Love" and features Terri Wells on backing vocals and, not surprisingly with such a tight sound, Bernard 'Pretty' Purdie on drums.