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Remembering Roy Brooks (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 8 months ago by raoulraoul@midwest.social to c/detroit@midwest.social

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Born today in Detroit in 1938, Roy Brooks was a jazz drummer/percussionist whose résumé reads like a Who's Who of jazz greats and whose life was sadly affected by bipolar disorder.

Here's an excellent, in-depth article and interview with Brooks by Jim Dulzo, published in The Metro Times from 2001. Brooks at the time was serving time at Marquette Branch Prison for felonious assault, again victim of his manic depression.

In his honor and for your listening pleasure, here's a brief playlist of Brooks' inspired playing.

Passin' The Buck
- from Beat
Go-Go
- with the Chet Baker Quintet, Boppin' with the Chet Baker Quintet
Scrapple From The Apple
- with Blue Mitchell, Blue's Moods
The Jumpin' Blues
- with Dexter Gordon, The Jumpin' Blues
Ishmael
- with Abdullah Ibrahim, Banyana - Children of Africa
Billie's Bounce
- from Understanding
Ray's Idea
- with Sonny Stitt, Constellation
Brother
- with Yusef Lateef, The Complete Yusef Lateef
The Gringo/Cool Eyes (The Theme)
- with the Horace Silver Quintet, Doin' The Thing
Zulu
- from Duet in Detroit

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