Roy Ayers

So big salute to J Nice for joining us this week.

Yeah, it's coming up in the mix in about ten minutes In the meantime, starting off with some funk, XL Middleton kind of catching some of that new Jack era energy on the first song remixing a nice one from Kazzy and Manika staying kind of Brit funk adjacent on the next one another party break voices in my head from the police a recent one from Dutch Groove Magicians another taste after that my second set is kind of in that slow tempo sweet spot a couple favorites are Delphonic the nice Roy Ayers rework that thread from last week's show and Chocolate Milk Pretty Pimpin' Willie surprised we haven't played that one yet and Static's jumping out the end what you got tonight?

Yeah just a short set but packing a lot of flavor still New York's definitely in the building we got some brand new Mozzy and Curious with great beat Lou on production too then we got a crazy four MC cipher rugged boom bap out of Trinidad of all places and finally we're gonna smooth things out as we wrap up including beautiful soul to soul flip and a recent collab between oneself and Vitae a homegirl that we rocked a nice show with in London back in the day

Plenty hip-hop tonight DJ Jay Nice bringing the limelight selections he's pretty low-key online but definitely catch the limelight live every Saturday 6 to 7 p.m on CJLO 1690 AM yes AM streaming of course on TuneIn and CJLO.com you'll find him on Instagram as DJ Jay Nice 2013 as well before we jump in time for a quick reminder of our We Funk 30th anniversary celebrations coming up this fall Static let them know

And Sharif is an incredible writer, performer.

He's done opening for Roy Ayers.

He just wrote a song with Elijah King that was on the new Keke Palmer movie.

Oh, wow.

Roy Brown was born in 1925, a highly influential rhythm and blues singer whose gospel-inflected style helped to lay the musical foundation for rock and roll.

Roy Ayers was born in 1940, vibraphonist and composer, who became famous as the godfather of neo-soul.

He bridged jazz, funk, and disco music.

Tommy Overstreet was born in 1937, country music hitmaker who had a bunch of top ten hits on the Billboard country charts through the 1970s.

Ah, dope.

We're gonna close out the show with some feel-good vibes, The Jones Girls with a super sunny yearning for love kind of track, two from Roy Ayers, one being the classic Pete Rock & CL original, "Searching," a great sax solo by Justo Almario immortalized on that Edo G track.

I gotta throw in another Mono Neon play through right at the end.

James Brown, "I Feel Good," one got completely flipped by Donny Goodman, and then add on Mono elevating on bass.

... is, is a lot more jazz than it is pop.

I think that's why guys like Roy Ayers, Herbie Hancock, uh, George Benson-

Mm-hmm

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The 9th, we got Elvin Jones.

And the 10th, we got Mr. Roy Ayers.

Just for a few to start out the month of September.

Thank you, Ray.

He's passed away.

But a picture with Lou Gossett and Roy Ayers.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, Roy