Coming up on Soulsations, we remember vibraphonist, composer and producer Roy Ayers. He passed away March 4 at the age of 84. We’ll share his music, including this week’s DoubleTake: his biggest hit, ...

Roy Ayers was one such artist. Emerging during the early 1960s as a sideman in a bebop outfit, the Californian musician would go on to pioneer jazz-funk and the acid jazz scene, forever altering the ...

“Well, he or she has to be funny,” chuckled Bruce Ayers, gently reminding me how dumb ... Local comedians such as Rickey Smiley, Mickey Dean and Roy Wood, Jr. flocked to The StarDome as ...