Billy Lewis Brooks
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| Born | 1943 United States |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instruments | percussion |
| Associated acts | , Fritz Pauer, Jimmy Woode, Slide Hampton, Joe Haider, Tete Montoliu, Benny Bailey, Miriam Klein, Nathan Davis, Duško Gojković, Philip Catherine, Ximo Tebar |
Billy Lewis Brooks (born 1943) is an American jazz percussion player.
Brooks moved to Europe in 1964. At the beginning of 1970's, he founded the group El Babaku with the bass player in Berlin, recording one album, Live At The Jazz Galerie, in 1971 for the MPS label.
He appeared on two albums with Fritz Pauer: Fritz Pauer-Live At The Berlin Jazz Galerie (with Jimmy Woode) and Water Plants. Other appearances and collaborations include those with the Slide Hampton/Joe Haider Orchestra, Tete Montoliu, Benny Bailey, Miriam Klein, Nathan Davis, Duško Gojković, Philip Catherine and Ximo Tebar.[1]
References[]
- ^ Andrew Wright Hurley The Return of Jazz: Joachim-Ernst Berendt and West German Cultural Change Berghahn Books 2011, S. 206
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Born Julius E Brooks
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- American jazz drummers
- American percussionists
- American music educators
- 1943 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American drummers
- American male drummers
- 20th-century American male musicians
- American male jazz musicians