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• Five classic Roy Ayers Ubiquity albums in a 3 CD Digipack.
• Including ‘A Tear To A Smile’, ‘Mystic Voyage’, ‘Everybody Loves The Sunshine’, ‘Vibrations’ and ‘Lifeline’.
• Full of Roy Ayers classics plus three bonus tracks.
This retrospective spotlights a prolific purple patch in Ayers’ career, focusing on the mid-to- late 1970s when he took the vibraphone into the pop mainstream via a series of commercially successful albums for Polydor Records.
Roy’s Band, which had previously been known as the Roy Ayers Quartet - a name that Ayers thought was too “square” and described as “a drag” - morphed into a much larger ensemble called Roy Ayers Ubiquity. Ayers said: “At that time, in 1970 when I joined Polydor, my manager, said ‘Roy, you should name the group Ubiquity.’ I said what does that mean? ‘Ubiquity means a state of being everywhere at the same time.’ I said, ‘That’s fate because if everyone has one of my albums I will be everywhere.’ I thought it was great so I started using that name.”
Key Tracks on this package are ‘Running Away’ which is not only featured as the album version, but also as an the 12” extended mix bonus track, ‘Evolution’, ‘Het, Uh What You Say Come On’, ‘The Third Eye’, ‘Tongue Power’, ‘Domelo (Give It To Me)’, ‘Searching’ and ‘The Golden Rod’.
Vice President and President elect Kamala Harris recently described ‘Everybody Loves The Sunshine’ as one of her favourite albums of all time.
Roy Ayers announced his retirement from touring in 2023, the five albums in this box set capture him at his peak. They remind us that in his prime, his music was an irresistible force, providing spiritual nourishment for the soul as well as irresistible dance grooves for the feet.
The package includes fabulous sleeve notes by Charles Waring (MOJO, Record Collector and uDiscover Music).
Tracklist
DISC ONE
A Tear To A Smile
1 2000 Black
2 Magic Lady
3 Show Us A Feeling
4 Ebony Blaze
5 Time And Space
6 No Question
7 The Way Of The World
8 The Old One Two (Move To Groove)
9 Miles (Love's Silent Dawn)
10 A Tear To A Smile
Mystic Voyage
11 Brother Green (The Disco King)
12 Mystic Voyage
13 A Wee Bit
14 Take All The Time You Need
15 Evolution
16 Life Is Just A Moment - Part 1
17 Life Is Just A Moment - Part 2
18 Funky Motion
19 Spirit Of Doo Do
DISC TWO
Mystic Voyage (Cont)
1 The Black Five
Everybody Loves The Sunshine
2 Hey, Uh, What You Say Come On
3 The Golden Rod
4 Keep On Walking
5 You And Me My Love
6 The Third Eye
7 It Ain't Your Sign It's Your Mind
8 People And The World
9 Everybody Loves The Sunshine
10 Tongue Power
11 Lonesome Cowboy
Vibrations
12 Domelo (Give It To Me)
13 Baby I Need Your Love
14 Higher
15 The Memory
16 Come Out And Play
17 Better Days
18 Searching
19 One Sweet Love To Remember
20 Vibrations
DISC THREE
Vibrations (Cont)
1 Moving, Grooving
2 Baby You Give Me A Feeling
Lifeline
3 This Side Of Sunshine
4 Running Away
5 Gotta Find A Lover
6 I Still Love You
7 Lifeline
8 Cincinnati Growl
9 Fruit
10 Sanctified Feeling
11 Stranded In The Jungle
12 Together
Bonus Tracks
13 Evolution 7” Version
14 Domelo (Give It To Me) 7” Version
15 Running Away - 12" Long Version