Re-issues,'Rare Groove' and the Resurgence of Blaxploitation
Towards the late 80's early 90's there was a massive resurgence in old funk, soul and jazz songs, perhaps more popularly known then as Rare Groove and all of a sudden labels like Urban emerged and Roy Ayers fans were able to experience more classic Roy Ayers tunes (known in the 70's as Roy Ayers Ubiquity) on vinyl.The first LP to be released on the Urban re-issue label was Roy Ayers most well known song and same titled LP Everybody Loves the Sunshine An absolute classic LP of music!! A memorable yellow cover and song that would be sampled, played, listened to and loved for years to come.
Urban also released Roy's funky dance floor number Brother Green on the Urban 2 compilation in 1987, in those days I used to buy these albums from shops such as Our Price Records where you could buy things like Hip Hop 7"s, Paul Winley's Super Disco Breaks and Cut out and Deletions with the corner of the cover cut off in a triangle. Unfortunately Our Price, like so many record shops, are now non existent. :(Urban continued to release Roy Ayers songs and I picked up 7"s of Can't you see Me and Love will Bring Us Back Together.
During the 90's there was also a big resurgence in Blaxploitation movies. Films aimed at the black market. They were not only action packed and entertaining, the music was often very soulful and funky and was the main reason I enjoyed the films. One such film was Coffy which soundtrack was composed by none other than Roy Ayers!!
With the popularity of the Rare Groove movement and the Blaxploitation resurgence many of Roy's LP's were re-released on both CD and Vinyl, Firstly in the 90's and even more recently in the Noughties!
Two more LP's purchased and should be mentioned are:-
He's Coming (Polydor, 1972) including He's a Superstar and We Live in Brooklyn.
and Virgo Red (Polydor, 1973) including the amazing Love from the Sun. A track in my Top 3 Roy Ayers tunes!
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