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| + artist ........... VA-Roy Ayers Ubiquity |
| + album ............ A Tear To A Smile |
| + label ............ Polydor |
| + cat .............. 065 620-2 |
| + year ............. 2003 |
| + genre ............ Jazz |
| + source ........... CD |
| + quality .......... VBRkbps / 44,1Khz / Joint-Stereo |
| + release date ..... 05.02.2003 |
| + size ............. 63,5 MB |
| + link ............. n/a |
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| 01.Carl Clay-Wayne Garfield - 2000 Black 05:26 |
| 02.Roy Ayers - Magic Lady 03:19 |
| 03.Calvin Brown - Show Us A Feeling 03:07 |
| 04.William Allen - Ebony Blaze 04:00 |
| 05.William Allen - Time and Space 04:11 |
| 06.Roy Ayers-Edwin Birdsong - No Question 04:30 |
| 07.Maurice White-Charles Stepney - The Way Of The World 03:31 |
| 08.Roy Ayers-William Allen - The Old One Two (Move To Gro 04:32 |
| 09.William Allen - Miles (Love Is Silent Dawn) 02:28 |
| 10.Roya Ayers - A Tear To A Smile 05:52 |
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| (t!) total 40:56 min |
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| Once one of the most visible and winning jazz vibraphonists of the |
| 1960s, then an R&B bandleader in the 1970s and '80s, Roy Ayers' |
| reputation s now that of one of the prophets of acid jazz, a man |
| decades ahead of his time. A tune like 1972's "Move to Groove" by |
| the Roy Ayers Ubiquity has a crackling backbeat that serves as the |
| prototype for the shuffling hip-hop groove that became, shall we |
| say,ubiquitous on acid jazz records; and his relaxed 1976 song |
| "Everybody Loves the Sunshine" has been frequently sampled. Yet |
| Ayers' own playing has always been rooted in hard bop: crisp, |
| lyrical,rhythmically resilient. His own reaction to being |
| canonized by the hip-hop crowd as the "Icon Man" is tempered with |
| the detachment of a survivor in a rough business. "I'm having fun |
| laughing with it," he has said. "I don't mind what they call me, |
| that's what people do in this industry." |
| Growing up in a musical family -- his father played trombone, his |
| mother taught him the piano -- the five-year-old Ayers was given a |
| set of vibe mallets by Lionel Hampton, but didn't start on the |
| instrument until he was 17. He got involved in the West Coast jazz |
| scene in his early 20s, recording with Curtis Amy (1962), Jack |
| Wilson (1963-1967), and the Gerald Wilson Orchestra (1965-1966); |
| and playing with Teddy Edwards, Chico Hamilton, Hampton Hawes and |
| Phineas Newborn. A session with Herbie Mann at the Lighthouse in |
| Hermosa Beach led to a four-year gig with the versatile flutist |
| (1966-1970), an experience that gave Ayers tremendous exposure and |
| opened his ears to styles of music other than the bebop that he |
| had grown up with. |
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