Search - George Brooks :: Summit

A great one sleeped on by almost every one

TUCO H. | Los Angeles, CA | 04/02/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"If you're a jazz fan or a fusion fan, you need to have this in your collection. There are at least 3 tracks on this album that are as good as music ever gets, the best recorded by any musicians anywhere at anytime. We're talking Mahavishnu/Oregon/Weather Report level musicianship here taking flight on some brilliant compositions and managing to reach a positively transcendent state. Brooks is the least known of the musicians here but he is the leader. The people playing on this album with him are no less than maestros Fareed Haque (Garaj Mahal), Kai Eckhardt (John McLaughlin Trio, Garaj Mahal), Zakir Hussain & Steve Smith (Jean-Luc Ponty, Journey, Vital Information, Vital-Tech Tones, etc.) but this is anything but a blowing session, it's a subtle and well-thought-out effort that plays to each player's strengths in order to navigate some very hallowed ground. Judging by the sales ranks, no one even knows that this album exists, but rest assured that as long as it stays in print, word of mouth will spread as it always does on all things timeless that are of real quality. Since you're one of the lucky few who got the word sooner, whip out your plastic and buy it, either here or at the guy's website, you'll thank me later."