The composer was known for his often-sampled 1976 album "Everybody Loves the Sunshine" and a career that spanned six decades.

The vibraphone is a tuned percussion instrument, and today Corey celebrates the ways in which it has been treated as a drum. Composers and improvisers have experimented with the materiality of the ...

Roy Ayers, the jazz-soul vibraphonist and bandleader behind 'Everybody Loves the Sunshine,' whose music became the backbone ...

The percussive nature and motor-driven vibrato of the vibraphone have led to a perception that it can only produce a homogeneous sound. Corey Mwamba passionately dismantles this and encourages us ...

The great Roy Ayers, the vibraphone master who pioneered neo-soul in the 1970s, died on Tuesday at age 84. The news was shared by his family: “It is with great sadness that the family of legendary ...

Roy Ayers, the legendary vibraphonist and neo-soul pioneer, has passed away at 84. His music shaped jazz, funk, and R&B for ...

The recordings of vibraphonist Roy Ayers are part of the foundation of contemporary R&B and hip-hop; Jay-Z, Mary J. Blige and many others have sampled his work.

Roy Ayers, whose hypnotic vibraphone playing and genre-blending compositions transformed jazz and influenced generations of ...

Born in 1940 in Los Angeles, Ayers became entranced by the vibraphone after being given his first pair of mallets by percussionist Lionel Hampton’s Big Band at the age of 5. He sang in church ...

Interested in what would be playing on the 'Twin Peaks' roadhouse radio? Here are five songs that emulate the show's eerie atmosphere.