Once one of the most visible and winning jazz vibraphonists of the 1960s, then an R&B bandleader in the 1970s and ’80s, Roy Ayers‘ reputation is now that of one of the prophets of acid jazz, a man decades ahead of his time. In 1970 he formed the Roy Ayers Ubiquity, which featured such players as Sonny Fortune, Billy Cobham, Omar Hakim, and Alphonse Mouzon.
- “Everybody Loves The Sunshine”
- Brand Nubian: “Wake Up (Reprise in the Sunshine)”
- Mary J. Blige: My Life
- Nowledge Of Self: Summer Time
- Tupac ft the Outlawz: Lost Souls
- Naughty by Nature: Sunshine
- “Painted Desert”
- The Beatnuts: Get Funky
- “We Live In Brooklyn”
- DJ Jazzy Jeff ft. Jill Scott: We Live in Philly
- “Feel Like Making Love”
- A Tribe Called Quest: Keep it Rollin
- “Running Away”
- A Tribe Called Quest: Description of a Fool
- Big Daddy Kane: The House that Cee Built
- “Life is Just a Moment Pt II”
- Jungle Brothers: Sunshine
- “Mystic Voyage”
- Coolio: Mama I’m in Love wit a Gangsta
- DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince: Just Kickin’ It
- “Brother Green (The Disco King)”
- Ice Cube: It’s a Man’s World
- Public Enemy: Brothers Gonna Work it Out
- “Searching”
- Amerie: “Rollin’ down my face”
By the way, Roy Ayers’ “Everybody Loves the Sunshine” was also heavily sampled by Brand Nubian’s “Wake Up (Reprise in the Sunshine)” on their All For One 90s record.
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The song “Searching” is sampled in the Amerie track “Rollin’ down my face”.
There’s a sax solo at the middle/end of “Searching”, that is used throughout “Rollin’ down my face”
who sang vocals on my life in the sunshine and goto keep walking please
thanks rue
Ayer’s “Searching” is also sampled by Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth on the album Main Ingredient. Track 12 : “Searching.”
Funkdoobiest also sampled Roy Ayers “Searching” with their track “Dedicated”