Good timing! I almost did a thread yesterday on Roy Ayers Ubiquity...

His 2-CD set anthology is the only thing I own from the brotha.

His Vigo Nude is the KILLER groove

There's SOOO much !


























His own label , on which he produced ( with Edwin Birdsong ) a few of his own albums and other artists' projects :






















GREAT collabo !
With lots of allstar-cats like Bobby Lyle , Nate Phillips & Bruce Carter ( both from funkgroup Pleasure )
Tracks that pop-up now :
- For Real
- Step Into Our Life
- Schwarte





MTUME jamz :



http://youtube.com/watch?v=rHU77AGH_go





http://youtube.com/watch?v=MsLveGqrPz0


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Oh man, we could do a thread just on his Uno Melodic shit. 100MPH, excellent, excellent post, by the way. I really enjoyed all the photos. I have or had all those Uno Melodic 12"s at one point. I had a sealed copy of the Ethyl Beatty 12", but goddamnit I had to sell it. The Jaymz Bedford 12" - both sides - is also totally amazing. I play that shit for people and it blows them away. The Uno Melodic stuff is really as good as anything he'd done prior.

Yes, there is so much, the man is seriously prolific. Clearly one of the most important musicians of the 1970s - period.

darkstranger521 said:

thanx 4 starting the thread .
Wow ! hats off for all those 12-es .
the Jaymz Bedford was one i found and thought @ first : " What a freaky name ! " ... but yeah , that shitz tight !
I focussed on so many other expensive collector-items , so i had to make a choice .
But i found the 80's Ladies on Japanese cd and finally bought the Uno Melodic Story which Charly Records released on cd .

Sylvia released after her Uno Melodic-album another monstertrack ...
an uptempo jam with solid bass-slappin' , sizzlin' synths and Sylvia gettin' down on tha 1 :



Yeah , Roy's an incredible various-cat . I saw him 3 times on a Dutch jazz-fest .
The 1rst time , there were lots a US brothers in the audience from which a few shouted any now and then : " Play some FREAKY DEAKY ! "
Aw man , Roy's clowning and jamming at the same time .
The other 2 shows were with Jocelyn Brown as guest , a classic combo ... they were joking , on fire & got the crowd NUTZ !
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