Harvey Brooks

Harvey Brooks ( born July 4, 1944 in New York City ) is an American rock bass player.

Brooks ' career began in 1965 with his discovery by producer Tom Wilson of Columbia Records, through the Brooks got the opportunity to play on Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited the bass. Thus, Brooks ' career began as a studio musician. In the late 1960s he played with a variety of artists, including The Doors, Cass Elliot, Richie Havens, Eric Andersen, David Blue, and Jim & Jean, and Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper.

Brooks ' friendship with Bloomfield led to Brooks in 1967 was one of the founding members of The Electric Flag. The band split up again just two years later. Brooks had become the producer Teo Macero met, who introduced him to Miles Davis. Brooks then played bass on the Davis - cult albums Bitches Brew and Big Fun. Brooks ' career thus there was at its peak. From the 1970s to the 90s Brooks was a busy studio bass player, which you can also hear on albums by John Cale, John Sebastian, Paul Burlison, Seals & Crofts, John Martyn, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Loudon Wainwright III and the Fabulous rhinstones can.

• Bass player
• Rock musician
• American musician
• Born in 1944
• Man