Remembering the great Roy Ayers who was born on this day in 1940. Here, he is performing “Chameleon” with Herbie Hancock on keyboards, George Benson on guitar, John Klemmer on saxophone, Jean-Luc Ponty on violin, Phil Upchurch on bass and Harvey Mason on drums live 1977.

Phenomenal Musical. Had so many classics! Rest up King.

Wow! 👇🏾 Here’s the full performance:

Damn, that’s good!

That is THE Music ! 🙏

Happy Birthday to my fellow Virgo brother!

wow, what a juggernaut of a line up! Pure masters of their craft. Time to go old school and bring down all my jazz albums and listen to these guys once more. Thx 🙏🏼

Great. Not long enough

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What a stellar line up .

He was amazing.

Genius.

Wow killer band line up

Beautiful! 👏🏽🔥❤️Happy Heavenly Birthday Mr Ayer’s. 🙏🏽🙏🏽

Powerhouse lineup right there. Damn ... 🎶

Who is credited for this song

Killin'.

I use to hate the start of “Chameleon”. Always like to middle and ending. Never understood why until my woman told me. Chameleons and caterpillers start off Ugly.

this line up! 🫶🏾

The SHIZZ!

❤️IT!

This line up:

Roy Ayers was pure class.

Ponty in head-to-toe blue while everyone else wears white satin is the most 1977 thing imaginable. Roy sounds immaculate.