The Free Slave WWSLP107 hard-driving group

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Mainly recorded during the sessions for the Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

it can almost be characterized as a new Kind of Blue

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

The Free Slave WWSLP107 hard-driving groupDetroit 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