LEFTFOOT PRESENT… ROY AYERS & PETE ROCK
PLUS SUPPORT FROM:
A FEW GOOD MEN (Roc 1, Rhize, E Double D, Psykhomantus)
Date: SUNDAY 24ND JULY
Time: 8PM-11PM
Venue: Hare & Hounds, 106 High St, Kings Heath, Birmingham, B14 7JZ
Tickets: £15ADV / MOTD from www.theticketsellers.co.uk / 0844 870 0000
After previous unbelievable show with Roy Ayers, American funk, soul, and jazz composer and vibraphone player, we thought we’d invite him back for some more good time vibes. So for those of you who missed his last performance, this is another chance to catch a genuine legend in one of Birmingham’s finest intimate venues.
This groundbreaking project is the first of it’s kind – jazz genius Roy Ayers performing with a Hip Hop/DJ legend PETE ROCK – in a Live band/DJ / Mc format. The show will feature exciting rendition’s of Roy’s most celebrated hits – Everybody Loves the Sunshine, We live in Brooklyn, and many others – with Pete Rock sampling Roy’s music and adding more hip hop flavour with his beats and rhymes.
Constantly performing and recording since the 1960s, he is one of the most famous jazz vibraphonists. He has produced some of the most loved modern soul-jazz records of all time such as, “Everybody Loves The Sunshine”, most influential afro-jazz with musician Fela Anikulapo-Kuti (Africa – Centre Of The World) and the most seminal jazz-funk, such as “Running Away”. And that’s just the surface. 2004 saw the release of “Virgin Ubiquity: Unreleased Recordings 1976-1981” which were ‘lost’ sessions tapes that he had discarded. Gilles Peterson described this as the equivalent of finding a lost Beatles album. No doubt this helped him win the Gilles Peterson 2004 Worldwide Lifetime Achievement Award. Roy Ayers is ageless and evergreen and as per the title of another one of hits, remember “We All Live In Brooklyn Baby”.
Rapper, DJ, and producer Pete Rock first emerged in 1991 as one half of a duo with C.L. Smooth, debuting with the All Souled Out EP. A hit LP, Mecca and the Soul Brother, followed before the two went their separate ways in the wake of 1994’s The Main Ingredient, with Rock remaining a prolific studio presence prior to the release of his solo debut, Soul Survivor, on Loud/rca four years later. Dropped from the label, he continued his career as an independent producer, and later signed to Rapster/Bbe in 2001 for PeteStrumentals. Two years later, the label released a two-part compilation of mid-’90s LPs with Lost and Found. In 2004, Rock produced the sequel to his debut, Soul Survivor II, with features coming from Pharaohe Monch, dead prez, Talib Kweli, and former partner C.L. Smooth.
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Advance tickets available from www.theticketsellers.co.uk / 0844 870 0000
Info: 0121 444 2081 / info@hareandhoundskingsheath.co.uk
Links:
www.hareandhoundskingsheath.co.uk
www.royayersproject.com
www.myspace.com/peterock
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