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Roy Brooks - Beat (Verve By Request Series) [LP] Alain Altinoglu the album's songs have beenRecorded for Berry Gordy's short lived Workshop Jazz imprint and recorded at the Hitsville USA studio, Roy Brooks (joined by fellow Detroit natives George Bohannon 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. Verve By Request Series features transfers from the analog tapes remastered on 180 gram