In February 2018, Roy Ayers performed four
sold out shows in Los Angeles as part of the
Jazz Is Dead Black History Month series. It
wasn't until 2020 that fans of Ayers discovered
that in addition to those shows, the legendary
vibraphone player had also recorded an entire
album of new material with Adrian Younge and
Ali Shaheed Muhammad.
Over the course of its eight original
compositions, written collaboratively by
Younge, Shaheed Muhammad & Ayers and
recorded at Younge's Linear Labs in Los
Angeles, the resulting album sounds both like
an unearthed an unreleased album from Ayers'
classic period in the 1970s (which produced the
oft-sampled
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