HARVEY BROOKS

New York-born musician Harvey Brooks has played on enough seminal recordings for any three careers, and, apart from being one of the more renowned bass players in popular music and jazz over the last four decades of the twentieth century, was also folk-rock's first electric bass player of any major note.

Harvey was part of Bob Dylan's backing band on the sessions that yielded the song Like A Rolling Stone and the album Highway 61 Revisited.  He played on Mama Cass's 1968 solo album, and on some of the Doors' Soft Parade album, and was very visible on the Michael Bloomfield/Al Kooper Supersession album, one of the iconic records in late 1960's rock music.  He also played with Bloomfield in The Electric Flag.

Harvey made Jazz history when played on Miles Davis' Bitches Brew.  From the 1970s into the mid-1990s, Brooks was one of the busiest bassists in music, working with such varied artists as John Martyn, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Seals & Crofts, John Sebastian, Loudon Wainwright III, John Cale, the Fabulous Rhinestones, and Paul Burlison. He relocated to Tucson in the late 90s, where he continues to perform and record.