Harvey Brooks (composer)

Harvey Brooks
BornFebruary 17, 1899
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DiedJune 17, 1968 (aged 69)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
GenresJazz
InstrumentsPiano

Harvey Oliver Brooks (February 17, 1899 – June 17, 1968) was an American pianist and composer. He is the first black American to have written a complete score for a major motion picture: Mae West's film I'm No Angel (1933).[1]

  1. ^ Joe Darensbourg, Jazz odyssey: The Autobiography of Joe Darensbourg, edited by Peter Vacher, Louisiana State University Press (1987) OCLC 17405719 ISBN 0807114421 ISBN 9780807114421