Harvey Brooks (born 1944, New York City) is an American bassist. He has played in many styles of music (notably jazz and popular music), and was folk rock's first notable bass guitarist. 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, and is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture. ... A bassist is a musician who plays a double bass or electric bass (also referred to as bass guitar). ... Jazz is a musical art form characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms, and improvisation. ... Popular music is music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and mostly distributed commercially. ... Bob Dylans folk-rock album, Blonde On Blonde Folk-rock is a musical genre, combining elements of folk music and rock music. ... Fender Precision Bass Bass redirects here. ...

Brooks came out of a New York music scene that was crackling with activity in the early 1960's — one of the younger players on his instrument, he was a contemporary of Andy Kulberg and other eclectic players in their late teens and early 20's, who saw not a huge gap between folk, blues, rock, and jazz. Columbia Records producer Tom Wilson gave Brooks his first boost to fame when he picked him to play as part of Bob Dylan's backing band on the sessions that yielded the song "Like A Rolling Stone" and the album Highway 61 Revisited — in contrast to the kind of folkie-electric sound generated by the band on his previous album, Bringing It All Back Home Wilson and Dylan were looking for a harder, in-your-face electric sound, and Brooks, along with guitarist Michael Bloomfield and organist Al Kooper, provided exactly what was needed on one of the most famous recordings of the 1960's. Brooks may also have been part of the band recruited by Wilson to play the electric backing on the Simon & Garfunkel single "The Sounds Of Silence." Columbia Records is the oldest continually used brand name in recorded sound, dating back to 1888. ... Tom Wilson (d. ... Portrait photograph of Bob Dylan taken by Daniel Kramer Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman May 24, 1941) is a highly influential American songwriter, musician, and poet. ... Like a Rolling Stone is a song by Bob Dylan, from the album Highway 61 Revisited. ... Highway 61 Revisited was the sixth album released by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. ... Bringing It All Back Home is a folk rock album by American musician Bob Dylan, released on March 22, 1965 (see 1965 in music). ... Michael Bloomfield is the name of: Michael J. Bloomfield, an astronaut Mike Bloomfield, a guitarist This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Al Kooper (born February 5, American songwriter and musician, probably best known for organizing the group Blood, Sweat & Tears. ... Bridge Over Troubled Water was Simon and Garfunkels last album; the title track was their only number one hit in the United Kingdom. ...

From the Dylan single and album, which became two of the most widely heard (and most controversial, at the time) records of the 1960s, Brooks branched out in a multitude of directions, as he went on to play on records by folk artists like Eric Andersen at Vanguard Records, and Richie Havens and Jim & Jean at Verve Records (where Wilson had jumped after leaving Columbia), and transitional electric folk-rockers such as David Blue (whose producer was looking for a sound similar to that on Highway 61 Revisited), and various blues-rock fusion projects involving Bloomfield and Kooper. Brooks played on Mama Cass's 1968 solo album, and also on some Doors sessions for which Ray Manzarek's keyboard bass was judged inadequate, including the Soft Parade album, and was very visible on the Michael Bloomfield/Al Kooper Supersession, one of the iconic records of late 1960s rock music. Vanguard Records was a record label set up in 1950 by brothers Maynard and Seymour Solomon in New York. ... Richie Havens (born January 21, 1941 in Brooklyn, New York) is an African American folk singer and guitarist. ... Verve Records was an American Jazz record label, founded by Norman Granz in 1956, which absorbed the catalogues of his earlier labels: Norgran Records and Clef Records (founded 1953). ... David Blue was a singer-songwriter from the folk rock movement of the 1960s, he didnt produce a lot of records, and eventually died in obscurity while jogging in the early 1980s. ... Mama Cass Elliot (September 19, 1941 - July 29, 1974), born Ellen Naomi Cohen, was a noted American singer who performed with The Mamas & the Papas. ... The Doors self-titled debut (1967) The Doors (formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, California) were a popular and influential American rock band. ... Raymond Daniel Manzarek (born Raymond Daniel Manczarek to Helena and Raymond on February 12, 1939 in Chicago). ... The Soft Parade was released in 1969 by The Doors. ...

It was through his participation in The Electric Flag, an extension of Michael Bloomfield and Barry Goldberg's interests in blues, that Brooks career took an unexpected turn. The Flag only lasted in its original line-up about a year, and much of that time was spent recording the only album ever released by the original band. But in the course of this, Brooks became known to executives at Columbia Records, including producer Teo Macero who led him to Miles Davis. The Electric Flag, formed in 1967, were a blues rock group led by guitarist Mike Bloomfield. ... Biography Barry Goldberg was a regular fixture in the White blues firmament of the middle 60s that seemed to stretch from Chicago to New York. ... Columbia Records is the oldest continually used brand name in recorded sound, dating back to 1888. ... Teo Macero is a jazz saxophonist and record producer. ... Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) one of the most influential and innovative musicians of the twentieth century, was a jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. ...

Working with Davis involved Brooks in a freer manner of making music than he'd been used to even on the most ambitious sessions with Bloomfield, though it also meant butting up against Davis's ego, personality, and musical sensibilities as a bandleader. Brooks worked wth the legendary jazz trumpeter long enough to contribute memorably to the Bitches Brew and Big Fun albums. From that point on — between the Dylan, Davis, Electric Flag, and Bloomfield and Kooper connections — Brooks' career was made. Even casual listeners became familiar with his name, and from the 1970s into the mid-1990s, Brooks was one of the busiest bassists in music, working with such varied artists as John Martyn, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Seals & Crofts, John Sebastian, Loudon Wainwright III, John Cale, the Fabulous Rhinstones, and Paul Burlison. He has been somewhat less active since the early 1990s, having relocated to Arizona during that decade, but has continued to perform and record. Bitches Brew is an album by Miles Davis, released in 1970. ... English Boy Group (1989-1994) founded by Phil Creswick (Philip Creswick), Mark Gillespie and Jason John (Jason Herbert), produced by Stock Aitken Waterman. ... John Martyn (born September 11, 1948) is a singer-songwriter. ... The Fabulous Thunderbirds are a blues-rock band, formed in 1974 (see 1974 in music). ... Seals and Crofts are Jim Seals (17 October 1941) and Dash Crofts (14 August 1940), a popular soft rock duo in the early 1970s. ... Lovin Spoonful album cover John Sebastian (born March 17, 1944) is an American songwriter and harmonica player. ... Loudon Wainwright III (born September 5, 1946 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina) is an American songwriter, folk singer, humorist, and actor. ... John Cale (born March 9, 1942) is a Welsh musician, songwriter and record producer. ... State nickname: The Grand Canyon State, The Copper State Other U.S. States Capital Phoenix Largest city Phoenix Governor Janet Napolitano (D) Official languages English Only State Area 295,254 km² (6th)  - Land 294,312 km²  - Water 942 km² (0. ...