Roy Ayers, the pioneer composer, manufacturer and vibrafista, died on Tuesday, March 4 in New York after a long illness, said his circle of relatives in an article on his Facebook account. “He lived 8 four years and we’ll miss a lot,” he said.

Ayers was born in Los Angeles with parents who worked as an instructor and assistant in the parking lot, but played music during his lazy time: his piano mother, his father, his trombonist father. The young Ayers studied the piano and vibraphone and sang in the school choir before turning the Bebop scene in Los Angeles in the early 1960s, published their beginnings alone, Vibes on the west coast, in 1963, and accompanying the great jazz as Herbie Mann the Decade. He signed with Atlantic in 1967 and Polydor in 1970, reaching a rhythm of more than one album consisting of the year during the next decades.

His first good fortune came here with the ubiquity of Roy Ayers, trained in the early 1970s. His music escaped from the vibraphone tones of the ayers through languid jazz slots that shape the base of neo -soul and, through sampling, a giant component of the hip of the west coast, to come. His good fortunes of 1976 and “search” of 1976 and “fleeing” of the following year inevitable on Sunday after Midi that were components of a source of fabrics raised through Dr. Dre, Mos Def, Mary J. Blige, Quest, Common, J Dilla, Madlib, 2pac B. I. and twelve more hip-hop-hop and b lynchpins.

In addition to its solo success, Ayers remained a prolific collaborator. He produced, in the disco era, for the singers who added Sylvia Stripin, and recorded an album with some other tour of Tour Fela Kuti. While his influence grew, he entered the studio with a new wave of artists, adding Guru, The Roots, Erykah Badu, Tyler, the Creator and, in his new album, Adrian Young and a tribe called Ali Shaheed Muhammad of the search. It also has a detail of the silver screen, which marks the film Blaxploitation Coffy, is synchronized in an intelligent position in Jackie Brown through Quentin Tarantino, and which appears as an interpreter in the documentary Summer of Soul of Questlove in the 1969 Festival Cultural Harlem.

The statement of the Circle of Ayers’ relatives said that “a birthday party of Roy’s life will come. “

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