Roy Ayers, steps away
Roy Ayers and most of humanity are within 6 degrees of each other. This matrix combines the small-world principle behind this seemingly magical fact with inter-artist recommendations-in-series in order to make all artists potential curators and discoverable within a handful (or two) of steps from everywhere on the planet. It works like this:
I RECOMMEND people (do you?)Roy Ayers & degrees of proximity
Why again is Roy Ayers mere steps away from other artists in here, and by extension, most everybody on the planet?
WHO CURATES "I RECOMMEND" ABOVE?
- Vertex/Edges Out by: The Matrix via ↴
Artist & Where
- Name: Roy Ayers
- City/Place: New York City
- Country: United States
- Hometown: Los Angeles, California
Life & Work
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Bio:
Roy Edward Ayers, Jr. was born in Los Angeles, California on September 10, 1940. Music has always been in his genes. His mother, Ruby, was a schoolteacher and local piano instructor and his father, Roy Sr., was a sometimes-parking attendant and trombonist.
As it often happens in a household filled with love and appreciation for music, Roy began to demonstrate his musical aptitude by the tender age of five.
By then he was playing boogie tunes on the piano. He eventually turned his attention to the guitar and other instruments, including the trumpet, and drums before embracing instrument of choice, the vibraphone.
In the 1960's, Roy was an award-winning jazz vibraphonist but soon transferred into a popular R&B band leader in the 1970's and 80's.
Today, the dynamic music man is an iconic figure still in great demand.
Contact Information
- Email: info@royayers.com
- Telephone: (855) 259-4017
Media & Markets
- ▶ Buy My Music (downloads/CDs/DVDs): http://www.royayers.net/Store.aspx
- ▶ Twitter: RealRoyAyers
- ▶ Instagram: realroyayers
- ▶ Website: http://www.royayers.net
- ▶ Website 2: http://www.royayers.com
- ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UCiDuL4WiEo-s96OONYBMpvw
- ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/5xO3QmYfDvMSR5UQtlXmy5
- ▶ Spotify 2: http://open.spotify.com/album/4Lbywk6u8hq5gFgJq7KBS6
- ▶ Spotify 3: http://open.spotify.com/album/5JehGpTedBPXzhUcwXoIlf
- ▶ Spotify 4: http://open.spotify.com/album/4YE5VOuP2cT3fZumyxj6Vb
- ▶ Spotify 5: http://open.spotify.com/album/44FVaRWkEXn4DaDv9fD23z
- ▶ Spotify 6: http://open.spotify.com/album/7a3fNfSPvq9lhqF3bUp0nB
- ▶ Article: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-07-01/roy-ayers-new-album-tribe-jazz-is-dead
ABOUT THE MATRIX
This matrix is dedicated to creative artists and non-algorithmic discovery.
It was described (to some degree) and can be accessed via this article in British journal The Guardian (which named our radio of matrixed artists as one of ten best in the world):
www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/apr/17/10-best-music-radio-station-around-world
While the Brazilian musicians I work with now you may not know, I formerly worked (chasing unpaid royalties!) on behalf of Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Led Zeppelin, Jim Hall, Mongo Santamaria, Gilberto Gil, Astrud Gilberto, Wah Wah Watson (Melvin Ragin), Philip Glass, The Cadillacs (Earl Carroll), The Flamingos (Zeke and Jake Carey), and others, including Oscar-winning world-class great-guy Robb Royer. I was interviewed by David Dye for broadcast on U.S. National Public Radio several years ago ... about the Brazilians:
- Randy "Pardal/Sparrow" Roberts
All is more connected than we know.
w/ David Dye for U.S. National Public Radio
The matrix was inspired in (the kabbalah-inspired fiction of) Borges' El Aleph, that in the pillar in Cairo's Mosque of Amr, where the universe in its entirety throughout all time is perceivable as an infinite hum from deep within the stone...
Our logo, per the "spirit" above, is a cortador de cana, a cane cutter. It was designed by Walter Mariano, professor of design at the Federal University of Bahia to reflect the origins of the music the shop specialized in. The Brazilian "aleph" doesn't hum... it dances and sings.
