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

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

Musicians have been paying tribute to the "Everybody Loves the Sunshine" icon, whose influence has shaped R&B, hip-hop and neo-soul.

Legendary jazz-funk pioneer Roy Ayers dies at 84, leaving a lasting impact on music with his groundbreaking fusion of jazz, ...

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

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 ...

He helped introduce a funkier strain of the music in the 1970s ... addition to being one of the acknowledged masters of the jazz vibraphone, Mr. Ayers was a leader in the movement that added ...

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

Born in 1940 in Los Angeles, Ayers became entranced by the vibraphone after being given ... After studying music theory at Los Angeles City College, Ayers signed his first recording contract ...

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 ...