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<div>Many of you have been asking "When can I order your new CD?"</div><div><br></div>I am thrilled to announce that the new <a href="http://www.georgebrooks.com/george-brooks-music/spirit-and-spice/">George Brooks Summit CD "Spirit and Spice" is available for pre-order.</a><div>You can go to <a href="http://www.georgebrooks.com/george-brooks-music/spirit-and-spice/">http://www.georgebrooks.com/george-brooks-music/spirit-and-spice/</a> listen to some excerpts and then purchase the REAL thing through PayPal.</div><div>We expect to ship out orders before the month's end and to have downloads available soon after.</div><div>However--<a href="http://www.georgebrooks.com/george-brooks-music/spirit-and-spice/">I say get a copy now!</a> you not only get incredible music, </div><div>but also beautiful photographs by Irene Young and lovely artwork by Deb McCarroll of Studio Pacific<br><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><div><div>..and please save the date -- </div><div><br></div><div><div style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; 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margin-left: 0px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">with </span></font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Fareed Haque - guitar</span></font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Frank Martin - piano</span></font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Kai Eckhardt - bass</span></font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Steve Smith - drums</span></font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Salar Nader - tabla</span></font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b> </b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><b><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">George Brooks celebrates the release of<b> “Spirit and Spice”,</b> his fourth CD as a leader and the second for his Earth Brother Music label, featuring Fareed Haque, guitar; Kai Eckhardt, bass and Steve on drums. Guests on the album include Zakir Hussain and Swapan Chaudhuri on tabla, Kala Ranath on violin, Ronu Majumdar on bamboo flute and Niladri Kumar on sitar.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b>George Brooks Summit</b> features some of the finest musicians working in jazz and global fusion. On bass is <b>Kai Eckhardt</b> who was the foundation of the John McLaughlin trio that introduced the world to Trilok Gurtu. He has since recorded and performed with Billy Cobham, Larry Coryell, Wayne Shorter, Al Dimeola, Maria Joao and many others. On guitar is <b>Fareed Haque,</b> who has performed with everyone from Sting to Paquito de Rivera and Joe Zawinul to Nigel Kennedy. </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Trap drummer <b>Steve Smith </b>may be best known as the drummer from rock super group Journey, but he is also the leader of fusion juggernaut Vital Information and a consistent winner of awards and jazz polls world wide, including Modern Drummers “ top 25 drummers of all time”. Rounding out the July 3rd performance are young Afghani tabla wizard<b> Salar Nader</b>, who has been touring and recording with the Kronos Quartet and DJ Cheb-I-Saba and Bay Area piano stalwart <b>Frank Martin</b> who has performed with Sting, Stevie Wonder, Narada Michael Walden and may others. Guest artists will be announced as the date nears.</font></div></b></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">www.georgebrooks.com</span></font></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></body></html>