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Evolution: The Polydor Anthology (CD)

By: Roy Ayers (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Evolution: The Polydor Anthology (CD) Album By Roy Ayers (Artist)
1   Pretty Brown Skin
2   We Live In Brooklyn, Baby
3   He's A Superstar
4   Red, Black And Green
5   Coffy Is The Color
6   Shining Symbol
7   Des Nude Soul
8   Fikisha
9   Change Up The Groove
10   2000 Black
11   Tear To A Smile, A
12   Evolution
13   Spirit Of Doo Do
14   Life Is Just A Moment (Part 1)
15   Golden Rod, The
16   Third Eye, The
17   Everybody Loves The Sunshine
 
DISC 2 for Evolution: The Polydor Anthology (CD) Album By Roy Ayers (Artist)
1   Searching
2   Vibrations
3   Running Away - (12" version)
4   Gotta Find A Lover
5   Freaky Deaky
6   Get On Up, Get On Down
7   Can't You See Me
8   You Send Me
9   Heat Of The Beat
10   For Real
11   Love Will Bring Us Back Together
12   Turn Me Loose
13   Africa, Center Of The World
14   Destination Motherland
 

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Vibe (4/95, p.104) - "...master of the thinking man's groove....A wonderful sampling of Ubiquity's funkiest, most fruitful period....Ubiquity command bossa nove beats..., rest in bluesy pastures...and kindle nationalistic flames with the same aplomb. What remains constant in his music...is the feeling of spaciousness and celebration..."

Title Note

Personnel includes: Roy Ayers (vocals, piano, electric piano, organ, clavinet, vibraphone, vibraharp percussion, synthesizer); Wayne Garfield, Dee Dee Dridgewater, Chicas (vocals); Harry Whitaker (vocals, piano, electric piano, organ, clavinet, harpsichord); Edwin Birdsong (vocals, organ); Seldon Powell (baritone saxophone); Jon Faddis (trumpet, flugelhorn); Garnett Brown (trombone); Jerry Friedman (guitar, electric sitar); Billy Nichols (guitar); Emir Ksasan (bass); Alphonse Mouzon (drums); William King (congas, bongos, percussion).

Producers: Myrnaleah Williams, Jerry Schoenbaum, Roy Ayers, Maurice Green, Wayne Henderson.

Compilation producer: Harry Weinger.

Includes liner notes by Tom Terrell.

All tracks have been digitally remastered.

Vibraphonist Roy Ayers recorded with Polydor throughout the 1970s and into the '80s, establishing the blueprint for the groove-centered soul-jazz he had built his name on. The '70s was Ayers's most fertile period, and his output for Polydor still stands among his best music. EVOLUTION brings together the cream of the artist's work for the label into a spectacular 31-track set

Cool, bright, and unremittingly funky, Ayers was always more concerned with reaching listeners than with pleasing critics, and EVOLUTION reflects the artist's populist stance by emphasizing danceability and romantic R&B ballads. Yet EVOLUTION also reflects Ayers's musical integrity, his political convictions, and--of course--his expertise on the vibes and the equally impressive skills of his working bands. Since Ayers's beautiful grooves became the stuff of legend during the acid jazz craze of the '90s, EVOLUTION will appeal to vintage track-loving DJs as much as it will to fans of '70s soul-jazz.

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