EVFA & ArtDontSleep present:HOMAGE – ROY AYERS, FEATURING THUNDERCAT, PETE ROCK AND J.ROCC Thursday, 11/17/11
Live Performances by:
Roy Ayers featuring Pete Rock (Live full band)
…
Opening Performance by:
Thundercat (Live)
and
J.Rocc
Lounge DJ’s:
Anthony Valadez, Clifton Weaver, Destroyer, Lee Joseph & Marlon Fuentes
Hosted By: Garth Trinidad
Thursday November 17th, 2011 :: 8pm-2am :: 21 and wiser
Exchange LA:
618 S. Spring Street :: Los Angeles, CA 90014 :: (213) 627-8070
Tickets: http://homage.eventbrite.com/
25$ presale :: 30$ Regular
Table Bottle Service Available: ella@exchangela.com
Enjoy this complimentary mix from Anthony Valdez:
http://hypebeast.com/2011/10/ron-ayers-homage-mix-by-anthony-valadez/
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Learn more:
Roy Ayers:
Roy Ayers was born in Los Angeles, California and grew up in a musical family. At the age of five,
Lionel Hampton gave him his first pair of mallets, which led to the vibraphone being his trademark
sound for decades. The area of Los Angeles that Ayers grew up in, now known as “South Central”, but
then known as “South Park”, was the epicenter of the Southern California Black Music Scene. The
schools Roy attended (Wadsworth Elementary, Nevins Middle School, and Thomas Jefferson High School)
were all close to the famed Central Avenue, Los Angeles’ equivalent of Harlem’s Lenox Avenue and
Chicago’s State Street.
Ayers was responsible for the highly regarded soundtrack to Jack Hill’s 1973 blaxploitation film Coffy,
which starred Pam Grier. He later moved from a jazz-funk sound to R&B, as seen on Mystic Voyage, which
featured the songs “Evolution” and the underground disco hit “Brother Green (The Disco King)”, as well
as the title track from his 1976 album Everybody Loves the Sunshine.
In 1977, Ayers produced an album by the group RAMP, Come Into Knowledge, commonly and mistakenly thought
to stand for “Roy Ayers Music Project”. That Fall, he had his biggest hit with “Running Away”. In 1980,
Ayers released Music Of Many Colors with the Nigerian Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti.
Since then, Roy Ayers has toured the world, many times over, released numerous records and had dozens
of life changing collaborations. Roy also made a hug impact in the world of Hip-Hop and RnB. Many people
have sampled him and covered him. Erykah Badu, Mary J. Blidge, Mos-Def, Digable Planets, DJ Shadow,
Nas, Madlib, Ice Cube, Public Enemy, Common, The Pharcyde, Pete Rock, Jill Scott and many many more.
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Pete Rock:
“Soul Brother No. 1.” Rose to prominence in the early 1990s as one half of the critically acclaimed
group Pete Rock & CL Smooth. After the duo went their separate ways, Rock continued with a solo career
that has garnered him worldwide respect. Along with groups such as Stetsasonic, A Tribe Called Quest,
The Roots and Gang Starr, Nas and Notorious B.I.G., Talib Kweli and the late J Dilla, Rock played a major
role in the merging of elements from jazz into hip hop music (also known as jazz rap). He is widely
recognized as one of the greatest hip hop producers of all time, and is often mentioned alongside DJ
Premier and RZA as one of the mainstays of 1990s East Coast hip hop production.
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Thundercat:
Stephen Bruner is Thundercat and Thundercat is the dominant bassist rising within the ranks of R&B, rock,
hip-hop, jazz, electronic, and beyond. The mystique behind the man named for his favorite cartoon seemingly
hides an introspective, ambitious, and fearless young artist whose solo debut album is finally emerging in
front of the vast catalog of experience he has amassed in collaboration with the likes of Erykah Badu,
Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Shafiq Husayn, Suicidal Tendencies, Stanley Clarke, and Flying Lotus, his closest
partner and head of the Brainfeeder movement. Stephen is joined by a serious cast of jazz monsters!
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J.Rocc:
One of the original turntablists, J. Rocc founded the Beat Junkies in 1992 with Melo-D and Rhettmatic,
but has done just as much on his own as in a group setting. He began DJing in the mid-’80s with a
California group named PSK. Soon after forming, the Beat Junkies became a seminal force in the rise
of instrumental hip-hop, including core member Babu plus future stars Shortkut and D-Styles.
In addition to numerous mixtapes and his own production for Stones Throw releases, J. Rocc has been the
DJ for Madlib’s live shows since the early 2000’s, was the 3rd member of Jaylib (Madlib & J Dilla) during
the group’s live events, and collaborated with Madlib on Beat Konducta Vol. 5-6: A Tribute to J Dilla.
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