DownJazz Records is thrilled to announce This Is Neo-Soul, a new album from keyboardist, composer, and longtime Roy Ayers music director Mark Adams, arriving March 20, 2026 — just over a year after Ayers’ passing at 84. The 10-track release — available worldwide on limited-edition color vinyl, CD, and digital platforms — gathers fifteen all-star musicians from the working bands not only of Ayers, but also of Chic, Lonnie Liston Smith, Luther Vandross, Gloria Gaynor, Gil Scott Heron and Chaka Khan.

Adams spent more than twenty years as the musical center of Roy Ayers’ touring group Ubiquity — the long-running, ever-evolving band Ayers used to carry his sound around the world — serving as keyboardist, arranger, and onstage ballast throughout thousands of shows. True to its present-tense title, This Is Neo-Soul isn’t a gaze into the rearview mirror. It’s a continuation of a language Adams lived for more than two decades.

Join us SATURDAY, MARCH 21 at 2PM to listen to a very cool neo-soul jazz experience. Hear some amazing jazz, get some freebies, even walk away with the vinyl or CD under your arm and onto your stereo.