Roy Ayers was a different type of dude (70s-80s R&B appreciation)

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He still doing his thing. Works a lot with Louie Vega(Masters at Work). Had a chance to see him a couple of years at Mt. Morris Park in Harlem, amazing.



 
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CharlieManson said:
If it wasn't for producing, I wouldve been out of Hip Hop...
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I'm kinda like this, learning bout Pre-Hip Hop(early to mid 70's), and Early Hip Hop eras(late 70's/early 80's) has made my love of Hip Hop even grow more.

I always suggest to folks who seem to have fallen out of Hip Hop to go back to that time.
 
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frush11 said:
I'm kinda like this, learning bout Pre-Hip Hop(early to mid 70's), and Early Hip Hop eras(late 70's/early 80's) has made my love Hip Hop even grow more.

I always suggest to folks who seem to have fallen out of Hip Hop to go back to that time.
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I tend to always just go listen to the music the 90s era to grew up on...especially the producers...

If you dig really deep into Hip Hop...especially the production...it's really a musical education in Black American music...

A lot of us tend to focus on the really big stars like Michael Jackson, Prince, Stevie Wonder, James Brown, Whitney Houston...

But artists like Roy Ayers, Lonnie Liston Smith and Gil Scott Heron...were really influential...even more so than someone like like a Prince...or a Michael Jackson because those Roy Ayers, Lonnie Liston Smith and Gil Scott Heron gave direction and a musical lineage for artists 15 to 20 years from them...to descend from...
 
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CharlieManson said:
But artists like Roy Ayers, Lonnie Liston Smith and Gil Scott Heron...were really influential...even more so than someone like like a Prince...or a Michael Jackson because those Roy Ayers, Lonnie Liston Smith and Gil Scott Heron gave direction and a musical lineage for artists 15 to 20 years from them...to descend from...
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I'm gonna include Donald Byrd with those guys.

It wasn't just Hip-Hop they had an influence on either. Without Roy there is no House Music. Early Jungle/D&B tunes were full with samples from those guys.

The whole Broken Beat/Nu Soul movement was based on what those guys and many others did.

Its like every day. Im discovering great artists and songs from that era, that I never heard of before. I really want someone to do a proper documentary/book on Black Music from the late 60's to the mid 80's.
 
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