ROY AYERS UBIQUITY | Five Classic Albums on 3CDs …coming soon
• 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).
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 |