Roy Ayers, the legendary American vibraphonist, composer and pioneer of jazz-funk, died Tuesday, his family said. He was ...

Roy Ayers, the legendary jazz vibraphonist known for his hit 'Everybody Loves the Sunshine,' has died. He was 84.

Youngbloods frontman Jesse Colin Young, whose old band was best known for the classic 1960s peace anthem “Get Together,” has died at age 83.

The song defined his public persona, helping him sing his way to the governor’s mansion in 1944 and 1960. Robert Mann’s 10th book, “You Are My Sunshine: Jimmie Davis & the Biography of a ...

In Everybody Loves The Sunshine, Roy Ayers uses six of the seven notes in F# Dorian mode as roots for fourths chords: F-sharp, A, B, C-sharp, D-sharp and E. Three of the resulting minor 11th chords ...

By the 1960s, Ayers was a well ... “There was no written music, scores or charts,” Philip Woo, who played keys on “Everybody Loves the Sunshine,” told The Guardian in 2017.