Roy Brooks & The Artistic Truth
Black Survival
Jazz roy brooks and the artistic truths black survival album is a true holygrail for deep and spiritual jazz collectors around the world 'black survival' is reissued here digitally remastered and cased in bespoke original artwork exact reproduction on very limited 1000 worldwide heavyweight usmade heavy board vinyl edition this album was originally independently released to raise funds to combat the ongoing drought in the sahel region of africa an area covering parts of senegal mali burkina faso nigeria chad darfur sudan and ethiopia in his long and distinguished career the legendary detroitborn drummer brooks played with everyone from yusef lateef pharoah sanders max roach charles mingus from 195964 he was in the horace silver quintet performing on classic blue note albums such as 'song for my father' during his lifetime brooks released precious few solo albums his debut 'beat' was released in 1963 on motowns then new offshoot jazz label jazz workshop his connection with his hometown label dated back to his time working with the four tops in 1972 brooks formed the artistic truth 'black survival' the sahel concert at the town hall was originally released on the small independent imhotep records in harlem in 1974 which also released brooks earlier ethnic expressions after many years on the new york jazz scene brooks returned to detroit in 1975 where he continued to perform with the artistic truth as well as forming the collective musicians united to save indigenous culture music along with strata founder kenny cox and members of the tribe collective wendell harrison and harold mckinney
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