Harvey Brooks (born Harvey Goldstein; July 4, 1944) is an American bass guitarist. Brooks is best known as a session musician, recording with Bob Dylan, The Doors, Miles Davis and others.
Music career
Bob Dylan
Brooks came out of a New York music scene in the early 1960s. One of the younger players on his instrument, he was a contemporary of Felix Pappalardi and Andy Kulberg and other eclectic bass players in their late teens and early twenties, who saw a way to bridge the styles of folk, blues, rock, and jazz.
Brooks got his first boost to fame when he was asked to play as part of Bob Dylan's backing band on the sessions that yielded the album Highway 61 Revisited (1965).
Brooks worked with two fellow ex Electric Flag members, trumpeter Marcus Doubleday and guitarist Hoshal Wright, producing the Sweet Apple self-titled album that was released in 1970. The album which is in the jazz and funk genre featured the songs, " Power of a Man", " Silly People", "The Act" and " I Can’t Find My Way".
1970s–present
In 1970 Brooks returned to the studio with Dylan for the New Morning album playing on The Man In Me, If Not For You, and Day Of The Locusts, Seals & Crofts' Summer Breeze and Down Home albums, and Paul Kantner's Blows Against the Empire. He also recorded with John Martyn, The Fabulous Rhinestones, Fontella Bass, John Sebastian, Loudon Wainwright III, John Cale, and Paul Burlison. He was featured in a cover story at Bass Musician magazine, March 2011. Brooks finished his memoir in 2020 and six months later in 2021 released his first solo album of original vocal and instrumental music entitled, Harvey Brooks "Elegant Geezer, Jerusalem Sessions", featuring Oren Fried, Yehuda Ashash, Steve Peskoff, Ioram Linker, Jamie Saft, Daniel Naiman, Ehud Banai and Danny Sanderson. Produced by Matthew J. Adams.
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Bibliography
- Harvey Brooks Biography 2020 View From The Bottom
- Harvey Brooks Children's book written by Bonnie Brooks 2020 Gramps Has A Ponytail