Roy Airez, jazz legend that affected hip -hop and R&B, dies in 84

New York — Roy Aires, legendary jazz musician, keyboard player, composer and singer known for his race, his success, “Everyone loves sunlight” from which samples were taken through such a conflict&B and RAP are heavy in Mary J. Blige, NWA and Dr. Dre, 2pac, MOS Def and Ice Cube. It was 84.

The Aires family said in a Facebook post that he died on Tuesday in New York City, after suffering from a long illness. “He has lived 84 years and will be very missing,” he said.

Airez had 12 albums in Billboard 200 album, the highest “You Send Me” in 1978 in No. 48. The “The Best of Roy Ayers” spends 50 weeks on the contemporary jazz album scheme.

His music did not go out of elegance, as she appeared in 2019 “Queen & Salim: The soundtrack. “Run Away” tribe called the 1989 OPUS Quest tribe, “a fool”, and samples were taken from the song by Big Daddy Kane and Common. Airez heard in Tyler, the creative album “Cherry Bomb” and “Mama’s Gun” from Erykah Badu.

“Well, I have suffered more than anyone else. I may not have more samples than James Brown, but I got more visits. Man, and there are a few I don’t know about,” he said in an interview with Wax Poetics.

One of the most popular Airez albums was the “Life Arter”, which reached its peak 9th, the best p.&B/HP-Hop the chart in 1977 and contained a “running” blow, which reached its climax in No. 19 on R.&B the graph and become a huge club.

During a visit to Johannesburg in 2017, Airez gave some rhythmic advice to the youth in the Soweto area in the city: Getting seriously, inspiring, rap, continued, “in the end you will get it.”

“O comrades, you have to choose your anger. Airez said:“ Be serious about everything. ”He also named a few musicians who inspired him: Nigerian Villa Coty (“ It was really like a genius ”), Herby Man (“ Teach me the work ”) and Miles Davis (“ It was the most wonderful. It was the purpose. It was far from view. ”

After appearing for the first time with the Hard Bop Saxophonist Curtis Amy in 1962, he collaborated with jazzman to record three albums for Atlantic Records – “Virgo Vibes”, “Stoneed Soul Pisnin” and “Daddy Bug” – and wrote and released the sound of the “Coffy” movie movie “Coffy” Starring PAM. Also moved to David “Fathid” Newman, the main pillar of the great Orchestra Ray Charles “in the 1960s.

In 2017, he appeared alongside works such as Tom Betty, Shins, Alabama Shakes, Charles Bradley and William Bell at the Arroyo Seco selective festival in Los Angeles.

Aires survived his wife, Arjiri, and their children, MTME and Ayana Ayers.