Composer and vibraphonist Roy Ayers leaves a genre- and generation-spanning legacy that resonates through jazz, funk, R&B and hip-hop. By Bill Meredith Roy Ayers, the vibraphonist and vocalist best-known for the 1976 hit “Everybody Loves the Sunshine” by Roy Ayers Ubiquity, died on March 4 in New York City after a long illness. He was...
