Harvey Brooks

Harvey Brooks (* 4. July 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 which Brooks had the opportunity to Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited to play the bass. This began Brooks' career as a studio musician. In the late 1960s he played with a variety of different performers, including The Doors , Cass Elliot , Richie Havens , Eric Andersen , David Blue , and Jim & Jean , as well as Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper .

Brooks' friendship with Bloomfield led Brooks to form the founding cast of The Electric Flag in 1967 . The band split up just two years later. Brooks had now met the producer Teo Macero , who introduced him to Miles Davis . Brooks then played bass on Davis' cult albums Bitches Brew and Big Fun . Brooks' career was at its peak. Brooks was a busy studio bass player from the 1970s to the 90s , featured on albums by John Cale , John Sebastian , Paul Burlison , Seals & Crofts , John Martyn , the Fabulous Thunderbirds , Loudon Wainwright III and the Fabulous Rhinstones, among others can hear.

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