Sunday, June 27, 2010
New Music: Seu Jorge & Almaz – Everybody Loves The Sunshine
A remake of Roy Ayer's perennial summer/good weather rare groove anthem:
[via Metal Lungies]
Labels: Crate Diggin', Latin Music, Rare Groove/Soul Music, Roy Ayers
Friday, April 23, 2010
Harlem Stage present Pete Rock: A Tribute to Roy Ayers
TOMORROW NIGHT (April 24) in NYC presented by Harlem Stage:
"Revive Music Group’s tribute to the legendary jazz musician Roy Ayers features an amazing lineup of music pioneers including legendary hip hop producer Pete Rock, jazz trailblazer The Robert Glasper Experiment and special guests. Honored Guest Roy Ayers will be there to bask in the glory. For this very unique event, the featured artists will collaborate in tribute to the extraordinary career of vibraphonist Roy Ayers and his influence and contributions to contemporary urban music.
Featured artist, Pete Rock, has produced many hip hop milestones from Ayers' source material, inspiration and influence. Revive Music Group is focused on revealing the roots of music culture by uniting two legends, two genre's of music, two generations and examining the foundations of emerging and established artists.
To bridge the gap, blue note recording artists The Robert Glasper Experiment featuring Chris Dave on drums, Derrick Hodge on bass & Casey Benjamin on alto/vocoder will perform sequences between Roy Ayers selections transition them into Pete Rock productions that were created from his musical influence. The live reinterpretations and interpolations of both works serve as the conduit to understanding the harmonic relationship between the past and present.
Since 2006, Revive Music Group has been presenting as series of conceptual concert events called REVIVE DA LIVE that specialize in illuminating the historical influence and relevancy of jazz with today's popular music. In the past year Revive Music Group has produced events like, Hip Hop 1942 w/Phonte of Little Brother, Hip Hop 1953 w/Pete Rock and Roy Hargrove & Guru (R.I.P.). Revive Music Group is planning many events in the near future inspiring the education of music, the influence of jazz and the future of hip-hop."
I can't imagine this will go down tomorrow without some kind of acknowledgement of Guru's passing. That guy carried the torch for the jazz-rap sound long after most others had left it far behind....
Cop tickets via Tickets.com HERE.
Labels: Old School Hip Hop, Parties and Events, Pete Rock, Rare Groove/Soul Music, Roy Ayers
Friday, July 31, 2009
Video: Dead Prez - “Summer Time”
Actually premiered last week on mtvU but perfect given today's weather! Double points for the Roy Ayers inspiration in the video!
Monday, April 27, 2009
Roy Ayers - "Everybody Loves The Sunshine" Live at Brewhouse Jazz
Sh-t's kind of hectic for me right now so updates may be thin on the ground over the next couple of days. This seemed kind of apropos though given the amazing weather we've had in NYC the past few days.....
Labels: Roy Ayers
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Snoop Dogg cooks up that (audio) dope
Snoop Dogg twice in a row?? Yup, please believe it! I'd heard that the D.O. double G dabbled in production but I always pretty much assumed that meant that, like many marquee artists, he thugged newer, younger producers into giving up or sharing the credit for beats they really did in order to get put on. Watching him chop up a Roy Ayers break in a way I doubt even Pete Rock, Premo or 9th Wonder would have thought of made me realize otherwise and has led me to a new found repsect for the Doggfather. Peep game:
H/t: Crate Kings via Rafi yet again.
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H/t: Crate Kings via Rafi yet again.
Labels: Roy Ayers, Snoop Dogg, Tha Dogg Pound
