Aquarius
Aquarius

In February 2018, Roy Ayers performed four sold out shows in Los Angeles as part of the Jazz Is Dead Black History Month series. It wasn’t until 2020 that fans of Ayers discovered that in addition to those shows, the legendary vibraphone player had also recorded an entire album of new material with Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad.Over the course of its eight original compositions, written collaboratively by Younge, Shaheed Muhammad & Ayers and recorded at Younge’s Linear Labs in Los Angeles, the resulting album sounds both like an unearthed an unreleased album from Ayers’ classic period in the 1970s (which produced the oft-sampled “Red, Black & Green,” “We Live In Brooklyn, Baby,” “Everybody Loves The Sunshine,” and “Running Away), as well as something startling, new and unexpected.

Avec un quatuor vocal parfaitement calibré, une section rythmique agressive et des piles de Rhodes, de Rolands et de claviers Hammond, Mind & Matter a joué un rôle déterminant dans la création du Minneapolis Sound. Enregistré en 1977, ce lot de démos de sous-sol inédites bombarde le Philadelphia Sound de Jimmy Jan Harris d’attaques de clavinet, de skats disco et d’accroches contagieuses. Nommé d’après l’adresse de sa genèse underground, 1514 Oliver Avenue (Basement) est une alternative organique au style de Prince de la fin des années 70.

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