3CD – Import

Five classic Roy Ayers Ubiquity albums in a 3 CD Digipack.

Including A Tear To A Smile, Mystic Voyage, Everybody Loves The Sunshine, Vibrations and Lifeline.

Full of Roy Ayers classics plus three bonus tracks.

This retrospective spotlights a prolific purple patch in Ayers career, focusing on the mid-to- late 1970s when he took the vibraphone into the pop mainstream via a series of commercially successful albums for Polydor Records.

Roys Band, which had previously been known as the Roy Ayers Quartet – a name that Ayers thought was too square and described as a drag – morphed into a much larger ensemble called Roy Ayers Ubiquity. Ayers said: At that time, in 1970 when I joined Polydor, my manager, said Roy, you should name the group Ubiquity. I said what does that mean? Ubiquity means a state of being everywhere at the same time. I said, Thats fate because if everyone has one of my albums I will be everywhere. I thought it was great so I started using that name.

Key Tracks on this package are Running Away which is not only featured as the album version, but also as an the 12 extended mix bonus track, Evolution, Het, Uh What You Say Come On, The Third Eye, Tongue Power, Domelo (Give It To Me), Searching and The Golden Rod.

Vice President and President elect Kamala Harris recently described Everybody Loves The Sunshine as one of her favourite albums of all time.

Roy Ayers announced his retirement from touring in 2023, the five albums in this box set capture him at his peak. They remind us that in his prime, his music was an irresistible force, providing spiritual nourishment for the soul as well as irresistible dance grooves for the feet.

The package includes fabulous sleeve notes by Charles Waring (MOJO, Record Collector and uDiscover Music).

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE

A Tear To A Smile

1 2000 Black

2 Magic Lady

3 Show Us A Feeling

4 Ebony Blaze

5 Time And Space

6 No Question

7 The Way Of The World

8 The Old One Two (Move To Groove)

9 Miles (Love’s Silent Dawn)

10 A Tear To A Smile

Mystic Voyage

11 Brother Green (The Disco King)

12 Mystic Voyage

13 A Wee Bit

14 Take All The Time You Need

15 Evolution

16 Life Is Just A Moment – Part 1

17 Life Is Just A Moment – Part 2

18 Funky Motion

19 Spirit Of Doo Do

DISC TWO

Mystic Voyage (Cont)

1 The Black Five

Everybody Loves The Sunshine

2 Hey, Uh, What You Say Come On

3 The Golden Rod

4 Keep On Walking

5 You And Me My Love

6 The Third Eye

7 It Ain’t Your Sign It’s Your Mind

8 People And The World

9 Everybody Loves The Sunshine

10 Tongue Power

11 Lonesome Cowboy

Vibrations

12 Domelo (Give It To Me)

13 Baby I Need Your Love

14 Higher

15 The Memory

16 Come Out And Play

17 Better Days

18 Searching

19 One Sweet Love To Remember

20 Vibrations

DISC THREE

Vibrations (Cont)

1 Moving, Grooving

2 Baby You Give Me A Feeling

Lifeline

3 This Side Of Sunshine

4 Running Away

5 Gotta Find A Lover

6 I Still Love You

7 Lifeline

8 Cincinnati Growl

9 Fruit

10 Sanctified Feeling

11 Stranded In The Jungle

12 Together

Bonus Tracks

13 Evolution 7 Version

14 Domelo (Give It To Me) 7 Version

15 Running Away – 12″ Long Version