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| You Send Me |
| Roy Ayers |
| első megjelenés éve: 2008 |
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| (2008)
[ DIGIPACK ]
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CD |
| 3.726 Ft
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| 1. | You Send Me
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| 2. | I Wanna Touch You Baby
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| 3. | Can't You See Me?
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| 4. | Get on Up, Get on Down
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| 5. | Everytime I See You
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| 6. | Rhythm
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| 7. | And Don't You Say No
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| 8. | It Ain't Your Sign, It's Your Mind
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Jazz
Roy Ayers - Arranger, Cowbell, Piano, Piano (Electric), Producer, Soloist, Vibraphone, Vocals, Vocals (Background)
Bruce Fisher - Vocals
Carla Vaughn - Vocals, Vocals (Background)
Chano O'Ferral - Conga, Vocals (Background)
Chuck Anthony - Guitar (Electric)
Dennis Davis - Drums
Harry Whitaker - Piano
Howard King - Drums
J.T. Lewis - Drums
James Mason - Guitar
John Mosley - Trumpet
Jose Ortiz - Drums
Justo Almario - Sax (Tenor)
Kerry Turman - Bass
Merry Clayton - Vocals
Philip Woo - Mini Moog, Piano (Electric), String Arrangements
Steve Cobb - Drums
Tony Gooden - Vocals (Background)
William Allen - Bass, String Arrangements
* Andy Kman - Production Coordination
* Bob Heimall - Design
* Carla Bandini - Assistant Engineer
* Harry Weinger - Reissue Supervisor
* Hollis King - Art Direction
* Isabelle Wong - Design
* Jerry Solomon - Engineer
* Joel Brodsky - Photography
* Kermit Moore - String Contractor
* Kevin Reeves - Mastering
* Michael Hutchinson - Engineer
With 1978's You Send Me, Roy Ayers added vocalist Carla Vaughn to his band Ubiquity. Vaughn, who is featured on several selections, never became a big name in the R&B world, but showed some promise on this LP. When she hits the high notes, Vaughn has a Deniece Williams-ish appeal -- and she proves to be an asset to Ayers when she sings lead on "I Want to Touch You Baby," the hypnotic "Can't You See Me," and a lush remake of Sam Cooke's "You Send Me." While Cooke's original 1957 version was pure doo wop, Ayers' sexy interpretation has a lot of quiet storm appeal. The gems that don't feature Benson at all include the funky "It Ain't Your Sign, It's Your Mind" and the disco-influenced "Get On Up, Get On Down," which didn't receive much radio airplay, but enjoyed its share of dance club exposure. Like other albums that Ayers recorded in the late '70s, You Send Me won't interest jazz purists but is rightly considered a classic by soul and funk enthusiasts.
---Alex Henderson, All Music Guide
Roy Ayers
Active Decades: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Sep 10, 1940 in Los Angeles, CA
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Instrumental Pop, Jazz-Funk, Soul-Jazz, Fusion, Jazz-Pop
Once one of the most visible and winning jazz vibraphonists of the 1960s, then an R&B bandleader in the 1970s and '80s, Roy Ayers' reputation s now that of one of the prophets of acid jazz, a man decades ahead of his time. A tune like 1972's "Move to Groove" by the Roy Ayers Ubiquity has a crackling backbeat that serves as the prototype for the shuffling hip-hop groove that became, shall we say, ubiquitous on acid jazz records; and his relaxed 1976 song "Everybody Loves the Sunshine" has been frequently sampled. Yet Ayers' own playing has always been rooted in hard bop: crisp, lyrical, rhythmically resilient. His own reaction to being canonized by the hip-hop crowd as the "Icon Man" is tempered with the detachment of a survivor in a rough business. "I'm having fun laughing with it," he has said. "I don't mind what they call me, that's what people do in this industry."
Growing up in a musical family -- his father played trombone, his mother taught him the piano -- the five-year-old Ayers was given a set of vibe mallets by Lionel Hampton, but didn't start on the instrument until he was 17. He got involved in the West Coast jazz scene in his early 20s, recording with Curtis Amy (1962), Jack Wilson (1963-1967), and the Gerald Wilson Orchestra (1965-1966); and playing with Teddy Edwards, Chico Hamilton, Hampton Hawes and Phineas Newborn. A session with Herbie Mann at the Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach led to a four-year gig with the versatile flutist (1966-1970), an experience that gave Ayers tremendous exposure and opened his ears to styles of music other than the bebop that he had grown up with.
After being featured prominently on Mann's hit Memphis Underground album and recording three solo albums for Atlantic under Mann's supervision, Ayers left the group in 1970 to form the Roy Ayers Ubiquity, which recorded several albums for Polydor and featured such players as Sonny Fortune, Billy Cobham, Omar Hakim, and Alphonse Mouzon. An R&B-jazz-rock band influenced by electric Miles Davis and the Herbie Hancock Sextet at first, the Ubiquity gradually shed its jazz component in favor of R&Bfunk and disco. Though Ayers' pop records were commercially successful, with several charted singles on the R&B charts for Polydor and Columbia, they became increasingly, perhaps correspondingly, devoid of musical interest.
In the 1980s, besides leading his bands and recording, Ayers collaborated with Nigerian musician Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, formed Uno Melodic Records, and produced and/or co-wrote several recordings for various artists. As the merger of hip-hop and jazz took hold in the early '90s, Ayers made a guest appearance on Guru's seminal Jazzmatazz album in 1993 and played at New York clubs with Guru and Donald Byrd. Though most of his solo records had been out of print for years, Verve issued a two-CD anthology of his work with Ubiquity and the first U.S. release of a live gig at the 1972 Montreux Jazz Festival; the latter finds the group playing excellent straight-ahead jazz, as well as jazz-rock and R&B.
---Richard S. Ginell, All Music Guide |
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