Roy Ayers - Stoned Soul PicnicAvailable on Record Store Day, 22nd April Ayers' 1968 Masterwork Issued On Splatter Coloured Vinyl Exclusively For RSD 2023. In the late 1960s, vibraphonist Roy Ayers was among the top young talents in jazz, thriving during a remarkable era for the genre. While Ayers would later become a jazz funk pioneer and delve heavily into R&B fusions, his third album Stoned Soul Picnic is a masterful showcase of soul jazz grooves. Produced by Herbie Mann, Stoned

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the three-pronged guitar approach is still as exciting as ever

breaking the previous sales record roughly ten times over

It's of the same bold but accessible experimentalism of Miles Davis's early fusion

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A magical mixtape of tracks that run the full gamut of Laraaji music

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and what it means to be human in a world that is wracked by so much trauma