Roy Ayers, the jazz-soul vibraphonist and bandleader behind 'Everybody Loves the Sunshine,' whose music became the backbone ...

Yet the movies also gave Black audiences a rare chance ... Mr. Hyde" and the sequel "Scream Blacula Scream." COFFY (Pluto and Tubi) Pam Grier battled drug pushers in 1973's "Coffy." ...

Roy Ayers, the legendary jazz vibraphonist known for his hit “Everybody Loves the Sunshine” and sampled by countless artists, ...

The movie opens with Grier blasting a guy’s head ... There’s a real sense of pathos to Coffy’s superhero-esque identity struggle between the kindly healthcare work she wants to be and ...

The Academy Awards are this weekend — Sunday at 6 p.m., airing in Milwaukee on WISN-TV (Channel 12) and, for the first time, streaming live (on Hulu) — and Milwaukee’s finally getting one of ...

Roy Ayers, the jazz-funk pioneer known for the hit “Everybody Loves The Sunshine,” has died. He passed away on Tuesday (March ...

He did the soundtrack to the Blaxploitation movie "Coffy," which was co-written by its star Pam Grier and director Jack Hall. Quentin Tarantino's Vista Theater retro cafe, Pam's Coffy, pays homage ...

A multi-genre music legend known as the Godfather of Neo Soul is dead at age 84. Roy Ayers, the jazz vibraphonist best known ...

The recordings of vibraphonist Roy Ayers are part of the foundation of contemporary R&B and hip-hop; Jay-Z, Mary J. Blige and many others have sampled his work.

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The 1976 release of Everybody Loves the Sunshine became a defining moment in Ayers' career. Read on to know all the detail ...