Roy Ayers: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Roy Ayers, the vibraphonist, composer and jazz-funk pioneer behind “Everybody Loves the Sunshine”.
He died at the age of 84, Tuesday in New York City after a long illness
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Drop The Needle w/ SFJAZZ Resident Artistic Director Julian Lage
The guitarist, composer, and SFJAZZ Resident Artistic Director brings a decidedly individual approach to everything he touches, including our Drop the Needle series.
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Congrats Best Alternative Jazz Album winner - 'No More Water: The Gospel Of James Baldwin' @OfficialMeshell. #GRAMMYs
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The Taj Mahal Sextet delivers an acceptance speech after winning Best Traditional Blues Album for 'Swingin' Live at The Church in Tulsa' at the 2025 #GRAMMYs
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Nearly three decades after her death, never-heard-before music from jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald has surfaced. The recording was recently discovered in the private tape collection of the founder of Verve Records. https://t.co/UZfkEYsrbx
Quincy Jones, the music legend who collaborated with everyone from Michael Jackson to Frank Sinatra, has died at 91. In 1986, Jones spoke with 60 Minutes about his brain aneurysms. He said he told God: Not now, I have too many dreams and ideas. https://t.co/QHrF253lLz
Titan of American music, Quincy Jones, has died at age 91. In a music career spanning 65 years, he worked with a host of artists and put together the superstar ensemble that recorded the 1985 fund-raiser ‘We Are the World’, the biggest hit song of its time https://t.co/SUbM6jrFnQ
"This moment, this evening, this spot where I stand tonight was not my destination when I was young and full of vinegar. I did not engineer this journey. To tell you the truth, I don't think I could even see this far." — Quincy Jones accepting the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 67th Oscars