Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company. But I did mine through a production company.

During the 2000s and 2010s Ayers ventured into house music collaborating with such stalwarts of the genre as Masters at Work and Kerri Chandler. Roy Ayers performed a solo on the John "Jellybean" Benitez production of Whitney Houston "Love Will Save The Day" from her second multi-platinum studio album Whitney. The documentary is planned to be released in early 2014.

Ayers 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.