Once one of the most visible and winning jazz vibraphonists of the 1960s, then an R&B bandleader in the 1970s and 1980s, Roy Ayers’ reputation is now that of one of the prophets of acid jazz, a man decades ahead of his time. Influenced by the electric jazz-funk sound of Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock, in 1970 Ayers formed his own group, Ubiquity, that proceeded to explore that cosmic/mystic kind of fusion.