Roy Ayers’s song Everybody Loves The Sunshine is the quintessential summer groove, guaranteed to brighten any day.

Several of my friends of a jazz persuasion revere Roy Ayers. I have a reservation.  For me the vibraphone is up (or down) there with the jazz flute when it comes to filling me with apprehension.

But even I have to confess that this song is, as the title very much suggests, a ray of sunshine.

For once Roy leaves his dreaded “vibes” alone to focus on the actual vibe. And that’s something he’s very good at indeed.

It’s such a mellow groove, mirrored by that cover photo of Roy casually posing in a yellow T-shirt against a yellow wall, like a vibier Van Gogh.

I guess it’s the quintessential example of acid jazz, a term that sounds better to me than jazz-funk, which covers a multitude of sins against the ears; not all of them Level 42.

Anyway, this is the 80-year-old’s signature song and it’s been sampled more than 150 times, perhaps most notably by Dr Dre (My Life), and it’ll brighten up any summer’s day.