Five classic Roy Ayers Ubiquity albums in a 3 CD Digipack. 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. Roy's 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, 'That's 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. 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.

Track List

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
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
20. The Black Five
21. Hey Uh What You Say Come on
22. The Golden Rod
23. Keep on Walking
24. You and Me My Love
25. The Third Eye
26. It Ain't Your Sign It's Your Mind
27. People and the World
28. Everybody Loves the Sunshine
29. Tongue Power
30. Lonesome Cowboy
31. Domelo (Give It to Me)
32. Baby I Need Your Love
33. Higher
34. The Memory
35. Come Out and Play
36. Better Days
37. Searching
38. One Sweet Love to Remember
39. Vibrations
40. Moving Grooving
41. Baby You Give Me a Feeling
42. This Side of Sunshine
43. Running Away
44. Gotta Find a Lover
45. I Still Love You
46. Lifeline
47. Cincinnati Growl
48. Fruit
49. Sanctified Feeling
50. Stranded in the Jungle
51. Together
52. Evolution 7" Version
53. Domelo (Give It to Me) 7" Version
54. Running Away - 12" Long Version

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