Everybody Loves the Sunshine
Roy Ayers
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Hey Uh-What You Say Come On | Roy Ayers | 3:45 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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The Golden Rod | Roy Ayers | 3:03 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Keep on Walking | Roy Ayers | 3:45 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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You and Me My Love | Roy Ayers | 3:12 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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The Third Eye | Roy Ayers | 6:21 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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It Ain't Your Sign It's Your Mind | Roy Ayers | 3:28 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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People and the World | Roy Ayers | 4:48 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Everybody Loves the Sunshine | Roy Ayers | 3:59 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Tongue Power | Roy Ayers | 3:02 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Lonesome Cowboy | Roy Ayers | 4:03 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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iTunes Review
Reinvigorated by a new backing band, Roy Ayers reached a high-water mark in 1976 with Everybody Loves the Sunshine. Bolstered by drummer Doug Rhodes, bassist John “Shaun” Solomon, and guitarist Ronald “Head” Drayton, the album has an exuberance not seen since Ayers’ early days. The album is drenched in layers of piano and synthesizer. Working in tandem with longtime Ubiquity keyboardist Philip Woo, Ayers personally applied keyboard to each song, striving for the warmest, most sensual palette possible. There's plenty of disco energy here, but the performances are anything but cookie-cutter. Ayers devises unusual and ingenious rhythmic ideas, which (as on “The Third Eye”) seem to at once stalk listeners and hover over them. The album culminates with “Everybody Loves the Sunshine,” which Ayers sings in unison with his vivacious young partner, Chicas. What could have easily been a corny hippy song in 1966 becomes in 1976 an oozing, sophisticated slow burn of a groove. It's a supernatural piece of music, eerily optimistic and intoxicating.
Customer Reviews
Progressive Jazz for a Porch Chill-out or Sunday BBQ Picnic
I 1st heard this album as a Senior in High School at Groove Time Records in San Bdno.,CA. I was collecting albums on a pt-time job, and I heard this playing on their rich Jbl speakers w/ the incense burning. I bought it! (They're still in business!) And since my Bros.used to chill-out w/ me at mis Abuela's 7-acre lush property, w/some ice-cold brewskis and some killer speakers...? This album is a Staple in ALL of our collections now! It's a Classic! For some up-beat gatherings or just mellow times chillin-out...
roy ayers everybodyloves the sunshine
this album is just another example of jams that take me back to one of the years of great music.I saw Roy in Buffalo ny in 1976 with phyllis hymen opening.this was also the summer with hits such as the Isly brothers "the heat is on",marvin gayes "after the dance" and Wars "why can't we be friends.Roy not only displays great technique-but this man exudes an obvious emotional connection when he plays.It is now 2007 and I still feel the connection when I listen to this cd. Noland Mcfarland
Just bee's and things and flowers
Just things and bees and flowers
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Biography
Born: September 10, 1940 in Los Angeles, CA
Genre: Jazz
Years Active: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s
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- $8.99
- Genres: Jazz, Music, Pop, Smooth Jazz, Crossover Jazz, Easy Listening
- Released: 1976
- ℗ 1976 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
