Roy Brooks
drums
Detroit drummer of the generation after Barry’s, one of the young players who gathered at Barry’s house in the 1950s; he later worked with Horace Silver.
- mentions
- 6
- recordings
- 5
- Barry speaking
- 2
What Barry says
When the interviewer asks about shuffle drummers besides the Motown players and suggests Roy Brooks, Barry puts him with ‘all those kids’ and calls him a baby, one of the much younger players.
Interview: Detroit, Bud Powell and the shuffle21:01
Describing how young Detroit players got to play alongside older ones, Barry names some of the young ones: a name the captions give only as ‘Brooks’, then Charles McPherson, Lonnie Hillyer and others.
Interview: Detroit and after4:04
In a 1981 Detroit TV special, a speaker who is probably Barry says the city’s music society gave concerts every week, and young players such as Roy Brooks, then going to Northwestern, Charles McPherson and Lonnie Hillyer got the chance to play every week.
Every mention
6 moments in the recordings, 2 of them Barry speaking. Each says who is talking.
Interview: Detroit, Bud Powell and the shuffle
- 21:01
After the interviewer suggests him as a shuffle drummer, Barry puts Roy Brooks with ‘all those kids’: ‘a baby’.
Interview: Detroit and after
- 4:04
Names young Detroit players who played with older ones: ‘Brooks’, Charles McPherson, Lonnie Hillyer and others.
Detroit Jazz: Ancient to the Future
Interview: tap dance and bebop
- 26:59
Someone else
A podcast host reads a biography citing Roy Brooks in 1967 calling Barry musician, teacher and philosopher.
Ep. 20 | Charles McPherson: Meeting Charlie Parker, Studying with Barry Harris, and the Art of Bebop
- 0:00
Someone else
A podcast introduction lists Roy Brooks among the Detroit players Charles McPherson grew up with, Barry included.
In the interviews and notes
Panken names Roy Brooks among the young Detroit players who came to Barry’s house to learn, with Joe Henderson, Louis Hayes, Paul Chambers, Lonnie Hillyer and Charles McPherson.
Asked which of his contemporaries were coming to Barry’s house, McPherson names Lonnie Hillyer, Paul Chambers and Roy Brooks, the drummer who worked with Horace Silver for a while.
Ted Panken (interviewer); Tommy Flanagan, Tommy Flanagan ¶204
Method ideas nearby
Ideas of the method taught in the classes where they come up, with how many mentions fall in each.