Jazz-funk musician Roy Ayers died on Tuesday after a "long illness," his family announced in a statement shared to his social media accounts.

Roy Ayers, the towering jazz legend whose songs reverberated throughout the entire scope of music, passed away this week at 84, leaving behind a massive library of sounds. Throughout his long ...

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Roy Ayers, the pioneering jazz-funk composer ... Their 1976 hits “Everybody Loves the Sunshine” and “Searching” and the following year’s “Running Away” became Sunday-afternoon ...

NEW YORK CITY -- Roy Ayers, the legendary jazz vibraphonist, composer and producer known for hit songs like "Everybody Loves the Sunshine," has died at 84, according to his family. Ayers' family ...

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Roy Ayers, who died March 4 at 84 after a long ... It translated easily to Ayers’s other landmark tunes, such as 1976’s Searching — which even restored the burning horns that Sunshine ...