Roy Ayers – Melodious Lockdown

Roy Ayers iconic album - Ubiquity

With a career that started over 40 years ago, the emergence of the 70’s jazz funk-fusion scene brought with it Roy’s most groundbreaking work. 1973, the year of the classic funk soundtrack ‘Coffy’ (Polydor) for super-bad blaxploitation flick starring Pam Grier and Brooker Bradshaw. Throughout the decade Roy continued to drop his most memorable work including Virgo Red, Everybody Loves the Sunshine, You Send Me, Mystic Voyage and Fever. These are the rich sounds that hip hop producers are still sampling and are yet to recreate.

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