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roy brooks & the artistic truth - black survival - universal sound - cd

Genre: Jazz - Spiritual / Cosmic & Soul Jazz

1. Black Survival
2. Here and Now
3. Sahel
4. Relief
5. Black Survival - Prologue

Roy Brooks and the Artistic Truth’s Black Survival album is a true holy-grail for deep and spritual jazz collectors around the world and now reissued through Soul Jazz!

Roy Brooks and the Artistic Truth’s Black Survival album is a true holy-grail for deep and spritual jazz collectors around the world.

Black Survival is reissued here, digitally remastered and cased in an original artwork exact reproduction on hardboard Jap-style box case for the CD

This album was originally independently released to raise funds to combat the ongoing drought in the Sahel region of Africa (an area covering parts of Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Chad, Darfur, Sudan and Ethiopia).

In his long and distinguished career, the legendary Detroit-born drummer Brooks played with everyone from Yusef Lateef, Pharoah Sanders, Max Roach, Charles Mingus. From 1959-64 he was in the Horace Silver Quintet performing on classic Blue Note albums such as Song For My Father.

In 1972, Brooks formed the Artistic Truth. ‘Black Survival’, the Sahel Concert at the Town Hall was originally released on the small independent Im-Hotep Records in Harlem in 1974 (which also released Brook’s earlier Ethnic Expressions).

After many years on the New York jazz scene, Brooks returned to Detroit in 1975, where he continued to perform with the Artistic Truth as well as forming the collective Musicians United to Save Indigenous Culture (MUSIC) along with Strata founder Kenny Cox and members of the Tribe collective, Wendell Harrison and Harold McKinney.

Black Survival appears in the book Freedom, Rhythm and Sound, compiled by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker and released on Soul Jazz Books.

Roy Brooks died in 2005.