The Free Slave
A 1970 live set with a band of stellar hard boppers. Jazz TIPPP!

The Free Slave

Roy Brooks

€ 38,95
  • LP
Label
Muse Records
Expected release
7 November 2025
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Description

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 Free Slave, according to Jim Dulzo in JazzTimes in 2003, "catches a live 1970 set with a band of stellar hard boppers that includes a very young Woody Shaw, plus George Coleman, Hugh Lawson and Cecil McBee. McBee and Brooks lay down a funky, intelligent groove and the band burns brightly through four extended tunes."

Tracklist

A

  • 1.The Free Slave12:18
  • 2.Understanding10:57

B

  • 1.Will Pan's Walk09:07
  • 2.Five For Max13:40

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