Roy Ayers, who died March 4 at 84 ... of musical-cultural relevance in the United States: an NPR Tiny Desk concert. Then 77 years old, Ayers was flanked by a much younger trio of jazz-, funk ...

I'm stuck on that name. It's got me going." Roy Ayers canceled 2023 concerts due to 'health complications' but hoped to 'get back to work' Ayers was still performing into his 80s, with his last ...

The music world mourns the loss of Roy Ayers, a pioneering force in the jazz ... he danced energetically at a Lionel Hampton ...

Roy Ayers, whose hypnotic vibraphone playing and ... broadening its cultural impact beyond concert venues and recording studios. Sampling transformed Ayers’ influence. As hip-hop emerged as ...

By Andrey Henkin Roy Ayers, a vibraphonist who in the 1970s helped pioneer a new, funkier strain of jazz, becoming a touchstone for many artists who followed and one of the most sampled musicians ...

An escape for temporary moments.” Roy Ayers, U.S. funk, soul and jazz composer and vibraphone player, during a live concert performance at the Kool Jazz Festival, at the Riverfront Stadium in ...

Roy Ayers, the vibraphonist ... a 5-year-old Ayers boogie’d so hard at a Lionel Hampton concert that the vibraphonist handed Ayers his first pair of mallets. “At the time, my mother and ...

FILE - Roy Ayers performs at the 2Pac 40th Birthday Concert Celebration on Thursday, June 16, 2011, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Ron Harris, File) FILE - Roy Ayers performs at the 2Pac 40th Birthday ...

Following the 1970 album Ubiquity, Ayers named himself and his live band Roy Ayers Ubiquity ... Soul Train and headlining an NPR Tiny Desk concert in March 2018. Ayers is survived by his wife ...

Roy Ayers, the vibraphonist, composer and jazz-funk pioneer behind ... Like a scene out of a movie, a 5-year-old Ayers boogie'd so hard at a Lionel Hampton concert that the vibraphonist handed Ayers ...