Billy Brooks has been played on NTS in shows including Music To Ease Your Disease, featured first on 24 January 2016. Songs played include Fourty Days and Forty Days.

Billy Brooks is a trumpet player and composer, born August 16, 1926 in Mobile, Alabama. Died on December 24, 2002 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Brooks played with Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra and released LP Windows of The Mind on Crossover Records in 1974.