Vinyl LP repressing of this 1977 album reissued to coincide with the 40th Anniversary of it's original release. Vibrations is a Roy Ayers album issued under the Roy Ayers Ubiquity umbrella. Includes Roy Ayer's classic hit 'Running Away'. Roy Ayers is a funk, soul, and jazz composer and vibraphone player. He began his career as a post-bop jazz artist, releasing several albums with Atlantic Records, before his tenure at Polydor Records beginning in the 1970s, during which he helped pioneer jazz-funk. He is a key figure in the acid jazz movement, which is a mixture of jazz into hip-hop and funk, and has been dubbed by many as "The Godfather of Neo Soul".