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Evolution: The Polydor Anthology charts Roy Ayers' 12 years and 20 LPs with Polydor, a rich time where his gliding, loose-groove jazz-funk gained many fans -- though perhaps fewer than it did 20 years later in the midst of the rare groove/acid jazz revival. During the 1970s, Ayers and his band, Ubiquity, progressed from political- and social-commentary funk to blaxploitation to disco to some surprisingly touching R&B ballads, and this two-disc set covers it all with grace and a smooth flow. Fans of hip-hop, groove music, funk, and jazz will all be able to find something to enjoy on the collection. Highlights include "We Live in Brooklyn Baby," "Evolution," "Running Away," and "Get on up, Get on Down," among others.
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Edwin Birdsong, Organ, Vocals, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Roy Ayers, Vibraphone, Vocals, Recording Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - ALPHONSE MOUZON, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Michelle Birdsong, ComposerLyricist - James Riley, Conga, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1971 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Harry Whitaker, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Rudy Van Gelder, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Roy Ayers, Vocals, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Roy Ayers Ubiquity, MainArtist - Myrnaleah Williams, Producer
℗ 1972 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Harry Whitaker, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Rudy Van Gelder, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Roy Ayers, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Roy Ayers Ubiquity, MainArtist - Myrnaleah Williams, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1972 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Edwin Birdsong, ComposerLyricist - Clint Houston, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Garnett Brown, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - William Fischer, String Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Roy Ayers, Vibraphone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Charles Tolliver, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Roselle Weaver, ComposerLyricist - Jerry Schoenbaum, Producer
℗ 1976 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Wayne Garfield, Vocals, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Roy Ayers, Producer, Vocals, Recording Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Dee Dee Bridgewater, Vocals, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Carl Clay, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1973 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Wayne Garfield, Vocalist, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Roy Ayers, Producer, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Carl Clay, ComposerLyricist - George Klabin, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Denise Bridgewater, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1973 Universal Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Eddie Kramer, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Roy Ayers, ComposerLyricist - James Green, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Roy Ayers Ubiquity, MainArtist - Jerry Schoenbaum, Producer
℗ 1973 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Roy Ayers, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Jerry Schoenbaum, Producer
℗ 1974 Polydor Inc.
Roy Ayers, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Jerry Schoenbaum, Producer
℗ 1974 Polydor Inc.
Wayne Garfield, ComposerLyricist - Roy Ayers, Producer, MainArtist - William Allen, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - James Green, Producer, Co-Producer - Carl Clay, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1975 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Roy Ayers, Producer, Organ, Piano, Vibraphone, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - William Allen, Bass Guitar, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - James Green, Producer, Co-Producer - Bernard Purdy, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1975 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Roy Ayers, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1975 Polydor Inc.
Edwin Birdsong, ComposerLyricist - Roy Ayers, MainArtist - Michelle Birdsong, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1975 Polydor Inc.
Roy Ayers, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Chano O'Ferral, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1975 Polydor Inc.
Roy Ayers, Producer, ComposerLyricist - James Green, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Roy Ayers Ubiquity, MainArtist - Chano O'Ferral, Conga, AssociatedPerformer - PHILIP WOO, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Maurice Green, Producer - Doug Rhodes, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Ronald "Head" Drayton, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - John "Shaun" Solomon, Electric Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Jerry Soloman, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1976 Universal Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Roy Ayers, Producer, ComposerLyricist - James Green, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Roy Ayers Ubiquity, MainArtist - Chano O'Ferral, Conga, AssociatedPerformer - PHILIP WOO, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Maurice Green, Producer - Doug Rhodes, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Ronald "Head" Drayton, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - John "Shaun" Solomon, Electric Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Jerry Soloman, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1976 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Roy Ayers, Producer, Vocals, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - James Green, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Roy Ayers Ubiquity, MainArtist - Chano O'Ferral, Conga, AssociatedPerformer - PHILIP WOO, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Maurice Green, Producer - Doug Rhodes, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Ronald "Head" Drayton, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - John "Shaun" Solomon, Electric Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Jerry Soloman, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1976 UMG Recordings, Inc.
DISC 2
Edwin Birdsong, Producer, Co-Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Roy Ayers, Producer, Recording Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Justo Almario, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - JERRY SOLOMON, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - William Allen, Producer, Co-Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - James Green, Producer, Engineer, Co-Producer, StudioPersonnel - Chano O'Ferral, Percussion, Conga, AssociatedPerformer - PHILIP WOO, Keyboards, Piano, Harmonica, Synthesizer Programming, AssociatedPerformer - John Mosley, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Maurice Green, Producer, Associate Producer - Steve Cobb, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Calvin Banks, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1976 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Edwin Birdsong, Producer - Roy Ayers, Producer, ComposerLyricist - William Allen, Producer - James Green, Producer - Roy Ayers Ubiquity, MainArtist - Maurice Green, Producer
℗ 1976 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Edwin Birdsong, Producer, Co-Producer, ComposerLyricist - Roy Ayers, Producer, Recording Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - William Allen, Producer, Co-Producer
℗ 1977 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Edwin Birdsong, Producer, Co-Producer, ComposerLyricist - Roy Ayers, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - William Allen, Producer, Co-Producer - Roy Ayers Ubiquity, MainArtist
℗ 1977 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Edwin Birdsong, ComposerLyricist - Roy Ayers, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - William Allen, Producer
℗ 1978 Polydor Inc.
Roy Ayers, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Bruce Carleton Fisher, ComposerLyricist - Stanley Richardson, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1978 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Edwin Birdsong, ComposerLyricist - Roy Ayers, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1978 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Sam Cooke, ComposerLyricist - Roy Ayers, Producer, MainArtist
℗ 1978 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
McKinley Jackson, String Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - JAMES GADSON, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - ALLEN SIDES, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Roy Ayers, Producer, Vibraphone, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Wayne Henderson, Producer, Trombone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Greg Matta, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Vance Tenort, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Reggie Ellis, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Barry "Bo" Henderson, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Vernell Shaw, Vocals, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Richard E. Flowers Jr., ComposerLyricist
℗ 1978 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Roy Ayers, MainArtist - Wayne Henderson, Producer - Richard E. Flowers Jr., ComposerLyricist
℗ 1978 Polydor Inc.
Chuck Anthony, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Roy Ayers, Producer, Vocals, Recording Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Carla Vaughn, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - William Allen, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Bernard Purdy, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Maurice Green, Producer - Carla Vaughan, Producer, Co-Producer
℗ 1979 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Roy Ayers, Producer, Recording Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1982 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Roy Ayers, Producer, Recording Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - James Bedford, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - William Allen, Producer, String Arranger, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Fela Kuti, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1981 UMG Recordings
Roy Ayers, Producer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - James Bedford, Producer - William Allen, Producer - Tanya Woods, ComposerLyricist - Luther Wilson, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1981 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Album review
Evolution: The Polydor Anthology charts Roy Ayers' 12 years and 20 LPs with Polydor, a rich time where his gliding, loose-groove jazz-funk gained many fans -- though perhaps fewer than it did 20 years later in the midst of the rare groove/acid jazz revival. During the 1970s, Ayers and his band, Ubiquity, progressed from political- and social-commentary funk to blaxploitation to disco to some surprisingly touching R&B ballads, and this two-disc set covers it all with grace and a smooth flow. Fans of hip-hop, groove music, funk, and jazz will all be able to find something to enjoy on the collection. Highlights include "We Live in Brooklyn Baby," "Evolution," "Running Away," and "Get on up, Get on Down," among others.
© John Bush /TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 31 track(s)
- Total length: 02:34:51
- Main artists: Roy Ayers
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Universal Records
- Genre: Jazz
© 1995 UMG Recordings, Inc. This Compilation ℗ 1995 UMG Recordings, Inc.
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