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Roy Ayers is a House and Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Omar Hakim, Arrested Development, Herbie Mann, Fela Kuti and Bobby Caldwell. Those roots explain a lot about how Roy Ayers arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes, Weldon Irvine and Fatback Band, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Groove Collective, Delilah, Gene Dunlap, Sylvia Striplin and Andrew Ashong, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 74 connections around Roy Ayers, reaching back through Omar Hakim and forward to Groove Collective. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Roy Ayers connections
Roy Ayers grew out of Omar Hakim, Arrested Development, Herbie Mann and Fela Kuti, shares an orbit with Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes and Weldon Irvine, went on to shape Groove Collective, Delilah, Gene Dunlap and Sylvia Striplin. 74 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
Who influenced Roy Ayers
Sounds and acts that shaped Roy Ayers.
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Where the influence of Roy Ayers travelled next.
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