The jazz-meets-funk musician inspired Pharrell Williams, Dr. Dre, and Kanye West. Reporter Jazz fusion legend Roy Ayers, who wrote the song “Everybody Loves the Sunshine,” has died at 84 after ...

Roy Ayers, the jazz vibraphonist whose smooth fusion planted the seeds of acid jazz and neo soul, died Wednesday at the age of 84. Ayers’ family confirmed his death on the musician’s Facebook ...

Three hours after exiting Edina High School, heads held high, the Holy Family Catholic jazz/funk dance team gathered inside the multi-purpose gymnasium where the team had practice five or six days ...

The vibraphonist, producer and composer played on some of the hardest-grooving soul jazz of the 1960s before becoming a crossover jazz-funk hitmaker in the 70s. Here’s a kind of hip, laid-back ...