My father, Michael Brooks, who has died aged 85, was a Grammy award-winning archivist, historian and producer who introduced American roots music to a new generation of listeners. He had a lifelong passion for early jazz and blues, together with a knowledge of elusive 78rpm recordings that bordered on the uncanny. “He’s like Merlin the wizard,” his fellow producer Steve Berkowitz told Billboard magazine in 2004.
RIP
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