• Roy Brooks – Homestretch
    • Roy Brooks – If I Could See Me Now
    • Roy Brooks – Passin' The Buck
    • Roy Brooks – Soulin'
    • Roy Brooks – Soulsphere
    • Roy Brooks – My Secret Passion
    • 1. Homestretch
    • 2. If I Could See Me Now
    • 3. Passin' The Buck
    • 4. Soulin'
    • 5. Soulsphere
    • 6. My Secret Passion

    Extremely rare LP from Roy Brooks originally released on Motown's jazz imprint Workshop Jazz label. Original copies cost £100s of pounds - with good reason!

    Roy Brooks (joined by fellow Detroit natives George Bohanon and Hugh Lawson, along with his Horace Silver Quintet bandmates Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, and Eugene Taylor) injects a Motor City soul-jazz groove into the hard bop root of this engaging 1964 album. Audio transferred from the analog tapes.

    Verve By Request Series features 180-gram vinyl, pressed at Third Man in Detroit.

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