DESCRIPTION Full of Roy Ayers classics plus three bonus tracks.
This retrospective spotlights a prolific purple patch in Ayers’ career, focusing on the mid-tolate 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).

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. CD1: A Tear To A Smile
2000 Black
Magic Lady
Show Us A Feeling
Ebony Blaze
Time And Space
No Question
The Way Of The World
The Old One Two (Move To Groove)
Miles (Love's Silent Dawn)
A Tear To A Smile Mystic Voyage
Brother Green (The Disco King)
Mystic Voyage
A Wee Bit
Take All The Time You Need
Evolution
Life Is Just A Moment - Part 1
Life Is Just A Moment - Part 2
Funky Motion
Spirit Of Doo Do
CD2: Mystic Voyage (Cont) 1 The Black Five
Everybody Loves The Sunshine
Hey, Uh, What You Say Come On
The Golden Rod
Keep On Walking
You And Me My Love
The Third Eye
It Ain't Your Sign It's Your Mind
People And The World
Everybody Loves The Sunshine
Tongue Power
Lonesome Cowboy Vibrations
Domelo (Give It To Me)
Baby I Need Your Love
Higher
The Memory
Come Out And Play
Better Days
Searching
One Sweet Love To Remember
Vibrations
CD3: Vibrations (Cont)
Moving, Grooving
Baby You Give Me A Feeling Lifeline
This Side Of Sunshine
Running Away
Gotta Find A Lover
I Still Love You
Lifeline
Cincinnati Growl
Fruit
Sanctified Feeling
Stranded In The Jungle
Together
Bonus Tracks
Evolution 7 Version
Domelo (Give It To Me) 7 Version
Running Away - 12" Long Version

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