Roy Brooks (March 9, 1938 – November 15, 2005) was an American jazz drummer.
Brooks was born in Detroit and drummed since childhood, his earliest experiences of music coming through his mother, who sang in church. 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.[ Roy Brooks] at Allmusic
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