The Free Slave WWSLP107 This isn’t a simple compilation

This isn’t a simple compilation but a fully realised sound system experience

though every sound is acoustic

Released in 1958 on Verve

it can almost be characterized as a new Kind of Blue

North Ireland or Argentina

The Free Slave WWSLP107 This isn’t a simple compilationDetroit drummer Roy Brooks was a skilled player who performed with many of jazzs 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