{"id":26942,"date":"2025-03-07T10:24:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T10:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=26942"},"modified":"2025-03-08T17:09:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T17:09:32","slug":"music-rip-roy-ayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=26942","title":{"rendered":"MUSiC: RIP Roy Ayers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4985-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26940\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4985-1.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4985-1-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4985-1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4985-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">He\u2019s Going Home\u2026 \u2639\ufe0f<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh dear, another one bites the dust. The legendary musical icons of my life are dying away. Only natural, I guess. But when the folk who\u2019ve soundtracked your life shuffle off\u2026 it\u2019s sad!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"456\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4976.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26941\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4976.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4976-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Everybody Loves The\u2026 Roy!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I never got to see Roy Ayers live, dammit. And he kept playing and hugging into his 80s! I did buy us tickets to see him in Cambridge, for my 50th. But it was cancelled, due to his deteriorating health. I\u2019ve never been reimbursed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh dear, another one bites the dust. The legendary musical icons of my life are dying away. Only natural, I guess. But when the folk who\u2019ve soundtracked your life shuffle off\u2026 it\u2019s sad! I never got to see Roy Ayers live, dammit. And he kept playing and hugging into his 80s! I did buy us &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=26942\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MUSiC: RIP Roy Ayers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-70y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26942"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26955,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26942\/revisions\/26955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}