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Roy Ayers is a House and Jazz act. Their sound grew out of BADBADNOTGOOD, Omar Hakim, Arrested Development, Herbie Mann and Fela Kuti. 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, Weldon Irvine, Fatback Band and Dexter Wansel, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Flower Boy, The Transatlantics, Miroslav Vitouš, LTJ Bukem and Ramp, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 67 connections around Roy Ayers, reaching back through BADBADNOTGOOD and forward to Flower Boy. 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 BADBADNOTGOOD, Omar Hakim, Arrested Development and Herbie Mann, shares an orbit with Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Lonnie Liston Smith, Weldon Irvine and Fatback Band, went on to shape Flower Boy, The Transatlantics, Miroslav Vitouš and LTJ Bukem. 67 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
Who influenced Roy Ayers
Sounds and acts that shaped Roy Ayers.
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