Roy Brooks

• 2 CD SET

• 3-PANEL DIGIPACK EDITION

Understanding is a previously unreleased recording of drummer Roy Brooks captured live by the Left Bank Jazz Society at The Famous Ballroom in Baltimore, MD on November 1, 1970. Featuring a stellar band with trumpeter Woody Shaw, saxophonist Carlos Garnett, pianist Harold Mabern and bassist Cecil McBee, Understanding was recorded 5 months after the classic live album The Free Slave (also recorded by the Left Bank Jazz Society). This recording features a full performance by great musicians at their peak, providing a "you are there" experience of the excitement of great music and an appreciative crowd.

Mastered from the original tape reels by Kevin Gray. Award winning arts journalist and critic Mark Stryker contributes the main essay as well as remembrances by American journalist, educator, author, activist and friend of Roy Brooks, Herb Boyd, alto saxophone legend Charles McPherson who grew up with Roy Brooks, Louis Hayes who got Roy the gig with Horace Silver and more.

PERSONNEL:

• Roy Brooks - drums
• Woody Shaw - trumpet
• Carlos Garnett - saxophone
• Harold Mabern - piano
• Cecil McBee - bass

Captured live in November 1970 at The Famous Ballroom in Baltimore

TRACKS:

• CD ONE
• 01. Introduction
• 02. Prelude to Understanding
• 03. Understanding
• 04. Billie’s Bounce

• CD TWO
• 01. Zoltan
• 02. Taurus Woman
• The Theme