{"id":59317,"date":"2012-12-29T08:55:51","date_gmt":"2012-12-29T07:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=59317"},"modified":"2012-12-26T19:21:12","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T18:21:12","slug":"interview-with-roy-ayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/interview-with-roy-ayers\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Roy Ayers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Along with James Brown and George Clinton, Roy Ayers is one of the premier artists sampled throughout the hip-hop canon, and one of the major influences on the evolution of soul and R&B over the past 20-plus years. His music, including hit records like \u201cEverybody Loves The Sunshine,\u201d \u201cRunning Away,\u201d \u201cSearching.\u201d and \u201cWe Live In Brooklyn, Baby,\u201d have proven timeless, and he\u2019s since collaborated with Guru, Pete Rock, Robert Glasper, and The Roots, amongst others. Now 72-years-old, five decades after his first album, the jazz-funk vibraphonist, singer, bandleader and songwriter is still going strong, performing throughout the U.S., and fully aware of the affect his music has had on his successors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Along with James Brown and George Clinton, Roy Ayers is one of the premier artists…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t