Nominated for the 2021 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research.

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HARVEY BROOKS first came to the public’s attention when he played on the classic Bob Dylan album Highway 61 Revisited, released in 1965 to great acclaim. Since then he has played with everyone from Miles Davis to Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, The Electric Flag, Al Kooper, John Cale and many others. This is his story, told from his own perspective, which includes first-hand accounts of such historical events as the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, as well as his esteemed career as a sought-after studio musician and staff producer for Columbia Records.

As a session player, Harvey Brooks has recorded with Bob Dylan, Miles Davis,  The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Richie  Havens, The Doors, Seals and Crofts, Cass Elliot, John Sebastian, Al Kooper, Mike Bloomfield, Karen Dalton, Peter, Paul and Mary, Tom Rush, Eric Andersen, Judy Collins, Loudon Wainwright III, John Cale, John Simon, Fontella Bass and Mavis Staples.

As a producer he has produced Quicksilver Messenger Service with Nick Gravenites for Capitol Records and Karen Dalton’s In My Own Time for Just Sunshine Records. He co-produced The Electric Flag’s second album with John Simon and wrote the liner notes.

“It was a period of turbulence and distrust within The Doors — a time when the band recorded at different times of the day, Harvey’s presence was like a rock during that session. ”

-- John  Densmore

drummer for The Doors

during the Soft Parade sessions

“Harvey is one of the greatest electric bass guitar players ever, a musician’s musician. For decades, starting in the 60s, he worked with everybody from Bob Dylan to Miles Davis to Jimi Hendrix to The Doors to Joni Mitchell, and so many more. His bass lines are the foundation of much of the iconic rock, blues and jazz music of that amazing era.”

                                                 -- Dave Barry

“...the double album’s unsung hero is Harvey Brooks who supplies all of Bitches’ bottom, thereby giving Miles the filthy flow he loves from R&B and blues. Brooks wickedly tunnels his low-rider hydraulics underneath the music’s more pristine abstract truths.”

--  Greg Tate

Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew

40th Anniversary Edition

“Harvey’s a good guy to have around when you need creative input to get out of a musical dilemma.”                                  

                                              -- John Sebastian