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Roy Ayers Ubiquity is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Herbie Mann and Fela Kuti. Those roots explain a lot about how Roy Ayers Ubiquity arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes, Weldon Irvine, Johnny Hammond, Idris Muhammad and Lonnie Liston Smith, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into 4hero, Whitney Houston, Guru, Kerri Chandler and Jill Scott, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 38 connections around Roy Ayers Ubiquity, reaching back through Herbie Mann and forward to 4hero. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Roy Edward Ayers Jr. was an American vibraphonist, record producer, and composer. Ayers began his career as a post-bop jazz artist, releasing several studio albums with Atlantic Records, before his tenure at Polydor Records beginning in the 1970s, during which he helped to pioneer jazz-funk. He was a key figure in the acid jazz movement, and has been described as "The Godfather of Neo Soul". He was best known for his compositions "Everybody Loves the Sunshine", "Running Away", and "Freaky Deaky" and others that charted in the 1970s. At one time, Ayers was listed among the performers whose music was most often sampled by rappers.
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Roy Ayers Ubiquity connections
Roy Ayers Ubiquity grew out of Herbie Mann and Fela Kuti, shares an orbit with Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes, Weldon Irvine, Johnny Hammond and Idris Muhammad, went on to shape 4hero, Whitney Houston, Guru and Kerri Chandler. 38 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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