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Vice President Kamala Harris Showed Off Her New Vinyl Records & They’re All?Classics
- "Mingus, Ayers, Fitzgerald and Armstrong—if you don’t know, now you know!" the VP captioned a video of her record store haul.
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- CelebrityMoscow-Pullman Daily News, Moscow, Idaho
Ayers talks music, identity
Jan. 28—It was 1993 in Seattle when Nabil Ayers had to decide between two crucial life paths after graduating college: getting a real job or working at a record store. In most situations, the ideal path would be to get a "real job" and get an apartment. But for Ayers, picking the record store is what led to his success — and understanding his identity. Ayers, musician, writer and record ...
- EntertainmentVariety
Soundtracking Memories: ‘My Life in the Sunshine’ Author Nabil Ayers Details the Music That Made Him (Guest Column)
My life has always revolved around music. My mother is a dancer who played Seals & Crofts and Stevie Wonder records loudly in our apartment as far back as I can remember. My uncle, the jazz saxophonist Alan Braufman, bought me a drum set when I was two-and-a-half years old. I’ve never known my father, […]
- CelebritySPIN
Nabil Ayers Searches for Identity, Explores Race and Family in His New Memoir
Nabil Ayers has always been surrounded by music. He played drums in Seattle indie rock band The Long Winters, co-founded Seattle’s Sonic Boom Records, and is currently the U.S. president of the Beggars Group, which distributes 4AD, Rough Trade Records, Matador Records, XL Recordings, and Young. It’s his last name, however, that has always attracted … Nabil Ayers Searches for Identity, Explores Race and Family in His New Memoir Read More ? The post Nabil Ayers Searches for Identity, Explores Race
- CelebrityRolling Stone
Nabil Ayers Looks Back on His First Sit-Down With His Jazz-Legend Father
In an excerpt from his new memoir, My Life in the Sunshine, the drummer and label owner delves into his complex relationship with vibraphone great Roy Ayers — the father he barely knew
- EntertainmentVariety
4AD Records’ Nabil Ayers to Release Memoir, ‘My Life in the Sunshine’
Music industry veteran Nabil Ayers, who is currently the U.S. general manager of 4AD, has announced a June 7 release date for his memoir, “My Life in the Sunshine: Searching for My Father and Discovering My Family,” via Viking Books. The title is an homage to “Everybody Loves the Sunshine,” the signature 1976 track from […]
- EntertainmentEsquire
Barack Obama's Summer Playlist Shows Off His Encyclopedic Knowledge of Music
There are some seriously deep cuts on this mix.
- EntertainmentEntertainment Weekly
Review roundup: Lianne La Havas' left-leaning pop, the Psychedelic Furs' melancholy, Roy Ayers returns
A (quick) critical rundown on three recent albums.
- EntertainmentLA Times
L.A. jazz-soul legend Roy Ayers has a new album, and new hope for the future
Oft-sampled vibraphonist Roy Ayers will turn 80 this fall, and his new album, recorded in L.A. on the Jazz Is Dead label, is both silky-smooth and prescient.
- EntertainmentLA Times
Is jazz dead? Ask Roy Ayers, Azymuth, Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad
California Sounds: From the analog recording studio of his dreams, Linear Labs, Adrian Younge ("Luke Cage") with A Tribe Called Quest's Ali Shaheed Muhammad (who perform together as the Midnight Hour) recorded "Jazz Is Dead" with several collaborators who rebut the title.
- NewsSpin
New Music: Flo Morrissey and Matthew E. White – “Sunday Morning” (Velvet Underground Cover)
Next week, Virginia retro-pop auteur Matthew E. White and British singer-songwriter Flo Morrissey will release?Gentlewoman, Ruby Man,?a collection of duet covers of songs by Frank Ocean, Leonard Cohen, Roy Ayers, James Blake, and more. Today, they share their plush version of the Velvet Underground classic "Sunday Morning," which does away with the original's signature celesta…
