With the tragic deaths of Clifford Brown and pianist Richie Powell in 1956, Max Roach's first great quintet literally lost two of its members. Kenny Dorham and Ray Bryant would replace Brown and Powell and Max's new group was called the Max Roach Plus Four, and it featured the tenor saxophone talents of none other than Sonny Rollins. By 1958 it proved too difficult to keep a band with this many...
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What in hell, do you expect. Max Roach passed away recently, Lord knows I feel bad ..... but.... I have no personal connection to the man. Jazz has been one of my fave genre choices ever since my days as a DJ. Don't get me wrong ... I am not an expert in jazz, not even close. I seem to know a lot about a specific period in Jazz ( BEBOP ) and the rest of my knowledge is fairly general, well bet...
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Max Roach by Jean-Michel BasquiatEquipoiseAlthough 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 ...
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Master percussionist and composer Max Roach passed away in his sleep early this morning. According to a spokesman at Blue Note Records, the cause of death has not been announced as of yet but Max has been ill for several years. He was 83 years old.Roach recorded over 70 albums in his storied career, working alongside folks such as Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus and S...
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Not big jazz fan but his playing on miles shit during the birth of cool is fucking awesome. Check the story here:http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/16/arts/music/16cnd-roach.html?em&ex=1187409600&en=6c490e2d6c1e51fe&ei=5087%0A
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This has to be one of my favorite Max Roach albums so I don't understand why it's always going out of print. Do yourself a favor and find a copy of this album and play like you mean it.
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Max Roach died over a week ago at age 83 from alzheimer's disease, and Amy Goodman at Democracy Now! devoted an "entire segment":http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/27/1425234 to his memory and memorial at the Riverside Church here in New York City. It's not to be missed, as she's joined by poet and playwright, Amiri Baraka, and jazz historian and DJ at WKCR, Phil Schaap. They have...
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