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Max Roach by Jean-Michel Basquiat

Equipoise

Although Max Roach was very much a product of the be-bop revolution of the 1940s, he proved to be quite receptive to modal post-bop and avant-garde jazz in the 1960s. One of the finest post-bop dates Roach recorded during that decade was 1968's Members, Don't Git Weary, which finds the drummer leading a cohesive modal quintet that employs Gary Bartz on alto sax, Charles Tolliver on trumpet, Stanley Cowell on acoustic and electric piano, and Jymie Merritt on electric bass.... More

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  1. scotfree says

    Nice egg frying/coffee sipping waker upper there. Think I'll "play" again. Love that painting too...

    Permalink posted 11/18/2008
  2. Cody B says

    Man, that was a nice record. I gotta have that. The painting..well I'd like that too, but I'm sure I can't afford it.

    Permalink posted 11/18/2008

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