This survey of Roy Ayers’s Uno Melodic imprint sees some of the best productions from the label gathered together from a brief but productive three year period between 1980 and 1983. Ayers pulled together a wealth of talent from his Polydor label-mates and beyond and between them created a slew of classics that still stand up today. Eighties ladies’ sassy ‘Turned Onto You’, Sylivia Striplin’s stepping mid-tempo ‘You Can’t Turn Me Away’ and Ethel Beatty’s proto-disco ‘I Know You Care’ are stone cold favourites. Striplin’s heavy groover ’Give Me Your Love’, Eighties Ladies’ infectiously funky ‘Eighties ladies’ and Jaymz Bedford’s wiry, angular ‘Just Keep My Boogie’ are also standouts but every track here is class – check Ayers’ own laid back ‘Everybody’ and the super chilled semi spoken word ‘Remember To Remember’ from Rick Holmes. Great stuff.
Track listings:
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01 Everybody by Roy Ayers
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02 Turned On To You by Eighties Ladies
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03 You Can’t Turn Me Away by Sylvia Striplin
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04 Chicago by Roy Ayers
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05 Give Me Your Love by Sylvia Striplin
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06 I Know You Care by Ethel Beatty
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07 And Then We Were One by Roy Ayers
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08 Interlude by Justo Almerio
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09 Baby Don’t You Know (instrumental) by Bobby Humphrey
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10 Ladies Of The Eighties by Eighties Ladies
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11 Just Keep My Boogie by Jaymz Bedford
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12 Remember To Remember by Rick Holmes
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