George Brooks Music
Summit
“Summit” is the first CD released by this all-star group, featuring Steve Smith, Zakir Hussain, Fareed Haque, Kai Eckhardt. “…what makes Summit so captivating is Brooks’ huge, wonderfully dense but pliable sound. Summit’s percussion section is a dream team featuring powerhouse jazz drummer Steve Smith and tabla master Zakir Hussain, the son of legendary tabla player Ustad Alla Rakha.”
Night Spinner
“Bristling with east meets west polytonality and rhythmic intrigue and tinged with a Trane-like spirituality… Blowing gorgeous tones and fluidly unraveling complex ideas…(Brooks) succeeds to a startling and almost rapturous degree.” San Francisco Bay Guardian
Lasting Impression
“The music on this recording has blown me away. Brooks plays the saxophone with a tone, rhythmic concept and harmonic concept that sounds totally new to my ears. The result is one of the most exciting saxophone records I have ever heard.” Saxophone Journal
Kirwani Quartet
Kirwani Quartet – Recorded in 2005 live at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel as a benefit for the American India Foundation, featuring Hariprasad Chaurasia, George Brooks, Gwyneth Wentink and Vijay Ghate.
Music Without Boundaries
The musical textures which emerge from the ghatam (a clay pot) under T.H. ‘Vikku’ Vinayakam’s virtuosic hands are breathtaking, and the meditative and flowing rivulets of notes which George Brooks coaxes from the saxophone are pure delight. Larry Coryell’s guitar seems at times beguiled by the East, with exquisite, softly contoured lines.
Drum Nation, Volume One
Drum Nation Volume 1 features the Worldís Greatest Drummers performing with ensembles or solo. Terry Bozzio; Bill Bruford; Steve Smith and Zakir Hussain; Chad Wackerman; Stanton Moore; Simon Phillips; Josh Freese; Rod Morgenstein; Tim Alexander and Brain; Marco Minnemann; Stephen Perkins and Brooks Wackerman.
