Roy Brooks has been played on NTS over 10 times, featured on 13 episodes and was first played on 4 February 2015.

Roy Brooks (March 9, 1938 – November 15, 2005) was an American hard bop jazz drummer.

Brooks was born in Detroit and drummed since childhood. He was an outstanding varsity basketball player as a teenager and was offered a scholarship to the Detroit Institute of Technology; he attended the school for three semesters and then dropped out to tour with Yusef Lateef. After time with Lateef and Barry Harris, he played with Beans Bowles and with the Four Tops in Las Vegas. He played…