Roy Brooks

The Free Slave (65940)

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The Free Slave

Roy Brooks

Stone Ash Records

7451107770601

GEN 166567

65940

JAZZ

1

CD 11,98 €

Detroit drummer Roy Brooks was a skilled player who performed with many of jazz’s most important names during the 1960s. While he was a widely respected and talented musician, playing with everyone from Horace Silver to Yusef Lateef to Charles Mingus, he never achieved the widespread fame of many of his contemporaries because much of his adult life was spent battling bipolar disease.

The quintet album The Free Slave is one of Brooks’ few recordings as a leader, and finds him backed by such stars as Woody Shaw, George Coleman, Hugh Lawson and Cecil McBee.

PERSONNEL:

  • Woody Shaw - trumpet
  • George Coleman - tenor sax
  • Hugh Lawson - piano
  • Cecil McBee - bass
  • Roy Brooks - drums

Live in Baltimore, Maryland, April 26, 1970.

  • Marcus Belgrave - trumpet
  • Sonny Fortune - alto sax
  • Sonny Red - tenor sax
  • Mickey Tucker - piano
  • Reggie Workman - bass
  • Roy Brooks - drums, percussion

TRACKS:

  • 01 THE FREE SLAVE
  • 02 UNDERSTANDING
  • 03 WILL PAN’S WALK
  • 04 FIVE FOR MAX
  • 05 THE LAST PROPHET (*)
  • 06 BLUES FOR THE CARPENTER’S SAW (*)
  • TOTAL TIME: 75:01 min.
  • (*) BONUS TRACKS: