Jazz vibraphonist Roy Ayers, noted as a pioneer in jazz-funk who inspired many, died March 5 following a lengthy illness.
Pete Rock’s informal relationship with jazz legend Roy Ayers began in the 1990s when he sampled his song “Searching” for his song of the same…
With the increasing number of films aimed towards black audiences in the early 1970s, filmmakers realized that they couldn’t turn to Henry Mancini to provide the musical backdrops for these movies.
