Roy Brooks, The Free Slave - 46m 7s

Tracks & Durations

1. The Free Slave	12:15
2. Understanding	10:55
3. Will Pan's Walk	9:08
4. Five for Max	13:44

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Review

Cecil McBee's funky bassline is the first telling notes on this reissue of Roy Brooks's best-ever LP. Hugh Lawson's jaunty piano eggs on McBee, deeply in the groove. Brooks is next into the mix, spraying a light patter of percussion then stomping on the beat as Woody Shaw's trumpet and George Coleman's tenor duke it out. In the background, a very lucky audience hoots in anticipation--exhorting Brooks to "Do your thang, man!" Brooks and Co. don't need much encouragement. On Free Slave, their "thang" is a rousing combination of everywhere-at-once playing: funky rhythms and hard bop all underscored with a chilly blue current of jazz hipsterism. An absolutely ripping reissue of a 1970 classic. --Steve Duda

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