Max Roach

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January V 03:27 Tools
Freedom Day 06:10 Tools
Tears for Johannesburg 09:43 Tools
All Africa 08:04 Tools
Lonesome Lover 07:01 Tools
Garvey's Ghost 07:54 Tools
Driva' Man 05:21 Tools
Mama 04:51 Tools
Equipoise 00:00 Tools
Tender Warriors 06:53 Tools
Man From South Africa 05:14 Tools
Praise For A Martyr 00:00 Tools
Mendacity 00:00 Tools
Filide 00:00 Tools
Driva'Man 00:00 Tools
The Drum Also Waltzes 03:32 Tools
Crackle Hut 00:00 Tools
It's You or No One 00:00 Tools
You Stepped out of a Dream 00:00 Tools
It's Time 00:00 Tools
Drums Unlimited 04:24 Tools
Valse Hot 00:00 Tools
Conversation 00:00 Tools
Effi 00:00 Tools
Blues Waltz 00:00 Tools
Deeds, Not Words 00:00 Tools
Abstrutions 00:00 Tools
Nommo 00:00 Tools
Libra 00:00 Tools
For Big Sid 00:00 Tools
Caravanserai 04:01 Tools
St. Louis Blues 00:00 Tools
Absolutions 00:00 Tools
The Profit 00:00 Tools
Jodie's Cha-Cha 00:00 Tools
I'll Take Romance 00:00 Tools
Larry-Larue 05:16 Tools
Sunday Afternoon 06:16 Tools
There Will Never Be Another You 05:51 Tools
Another Valley 00:00 Tools
Triptych: Prayer / Protest / Peace 00:00 Tools
Rumble In The Jungle 07:15 Tools
Onomatopoiea 00:00 Tools
The Most Beautiful Girl in the World 00:00 Tools
Twinkle Toes 00:00 Tools
Living Room 00:00 Tools
Lover 00:00 Tools
Triptych: Prayer/Protest/Peace 00:00 Tools
Driva Man 00:00 Tools
Minor Trouble 00:00 Tools
Members, Don't Git Weary 00:00 Tools
Triptych (Prayer, Protest, Peace) 00:00 Tools
Epistrophy 00:00 Tools
Just One Of Those Things 00:00 Tools
Motherless Child 00:00 Tools
Three-Four Vs. Six-Eight Four-Four Ways 00:00 Tools
Little Folks 00:00 Tools
The Glorious Monster 00:00 Tools
Let Thy People Go 00:00 Tools
Almost Like Me 00:00 Tools
Kujichaglia 00:00 Tools
Off My Back Jack 00:00 Tools
Body And Soul 00:00 Tools
Morning/Midday 06:49 Tools
Mr. X 00:00 Tools
Ezz-Thetic 00:00 Tools
Dr. Free-Zee 00:00 Tools
Were You Tthere When They Cruc 00:00 Tools
Yardbird Suite 00:00 Tools
Hope So Elmo 00:00 Tools
Garden of Prayer 00:00 Tools
Stompin' At The Savoy 00:00 Tools
Din-Ka Street 00:00 Tools
Stop Motion 00:00 Tools
Lotus Blossom 00:00 Tools
Troubled Waters 00:00 Tools
Joshua 00:00 Tools
Nica 00:00 Tools
In The Red (A Xmas Carol) 00:00 Tools
Triptych Prayer-Protest-Peace 00:00 Tools
Love Letters 00:00 Tools
Festival Journey 00:00 Tools
Jordu 00:00 Tools
Ghost Dance 00:00 Tools
To Inscribe 00:00 Tools
Triptych 00:00 Tools
Figure Eights 00:00 Tools
Woody 'N' You 00:00 Tools
Audio Blues 06:32 Tools
The More I See You 04:03 Tools
Quiet as It's Kept 00:00 Tools
In The Red [A Xmas Carol] 00:00 Tools
Un Nouveau Complet 00:00 Tools
To Lady 00:00 Tools
Liberté 00:00 Tools
That Ole Devil Love 00:00 Tools
As Long as You're Living 05:55 Tools
Pay Not Play Not 00:00 Tools
Bemsha Swing 03:08 Tools
Juliano 00:00 Tools
Petit Déjeuner 00:00 Tools
A Night In Tunisia 00:00 Tools
Speculate 00:00 Tools
Billie's Bounce 00:00 Tools
Confirmation 00:00 Tools
It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) 00:00 Tools
Variations On the Scene 00:00 Tools
Triptych: Prayer, Protest, Peace 00:00 Tools
Delilah - 2005 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Drum Conversation 00:00 Tools
January V (M'Boom) 00:00 Tools
Almost Like Me (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Max's Variations 00:00 Tools
Never Leave Me 00:00 Tools
Anthropology 00:00 Tools
Parisian Sketches 00:00 Tools
Parker's Mood 00:00 Tools
Milano 00:00 Tools
Au Privave 00:00 Tools
Pay Not, Play Not 00:00 Tools
Members, Don't Git Weary (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
This Time The Dream's On Me 00:00 Tools
Four-X 00:00 Tools
Tune-Up 00:00 Tools
Parisian Sketches: The Tower / The Champs / The Caves / The Left Bank / The Arch (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Raoul 00:00 Tools
Tuba De Nod 00:00 Tools
Pies of Quincy 00:00 Tools
What's New? 00:00 Tools
Medley: Triptych / Prayer / Protest / Peace 00:00 Tools
I Concentrate on You 00:00 Tools
Love for Sale 00:00 Tools
Prelude 00:00 Tools
Old Folks 00:00 Tools
Sadiga 00:00 Tools
Donna Lee 00:00 Tools
Parisian Sketches - Includes "The Tower", "The Champs", "The Caves", "The Left Bank", and "The Arch" 00:00 Tools
Were You There When They Crucified My Lord 00:00 Tools
The Left Bank 00:00 Tools
Delilah 00:00 Tools
CM 00:00 Tools
Stella By Starlight 00:00 Tools
Tune Up 00:00 Tools
Sporty 00:00 Tools
Gandolfo's Bounce 00:00 Tools
Deeds Not Words 00:00 Tools
Drum Conversation [Live] 00:00 Tools
Long As You're Living 00:00 Tools
Cou-Manchi-Cou 00:00 Tools
Cherokee 00:00 Tools
Tryptych: Prayer / Protest / Peace 00:00 Tools
My Old Flame 00:00 Tools
Parisian Thoroughfare 00:00 Tools
Speak Low 00:00 Tools
Namely You 00:00 Tools
Tryptych: Prayer/Protest/Peace 00:00 Tools
Joy Spring 00:00 Tools
Wild Is the Wind 00:00 Tools
Come Rain or Come Shine 00:00 Tools
Never Let Me Go 00:00 Tools
Speak, Brother, Speak 00:00 Tools
The Blues Walk 00:00 Tools
Chi-Chi 00:00 Tools
Mobleyzation 00:00 Tools
Woody 'N You 00:00 Tools
Tears for Johannesburg - Edit 00:00 Tools
A Variation 00:00 Tools
I'm a Fool to Want You 00:00 Tools
Kismet 00:00 Tools
Now's The Time 00:00 Tools
Orientation 00:00 Tools
Garvey's Ghost (Edit) 00:00 Tools
La Villa 00:00 Tools
Glow Worm 00:00 Tools
The Third Eye 00:00 Tools
The Casbah 00:00 Tools
It Don't Mean a Thing 00:00 Tools
What Am I Here For 00:00 Tools
Parisian sketches The Tower The Champs The Caves The Left Bank The Arch 00:00 Tools
KoKo 00:00 Tools
Minor Mode 00:00 Tools
Ko-Ko 00:00 Tools
Sleep 00:00 Tools
I Get a Kick Out of You 00:00 Tools
Daahoud 00:00 Tools
Sfax 00:00 Tools
Birth 00:00 Tools
JasMe 00:00 Tools
Night In Tunisia 00:00 Tools
Lepa 00:00 Tools
I'll Remember April 00:00 Tools
Cliff Walk 00:00 Tools
You're My Thrill 00:00 Tools
Sunset Eyes 00:00 Tools
Sing, Sing, Sing (with a Swing) 00:00 Tools
Tenderly 00:00 Tools
Limehouse Blues 00:00 Tools
Sandu 00:00 Tools
Oh Yeah, Oh Yeah 00:00 Tools
Giant Steps 00:00 Tools
Spirit Possession 00:00 Tools
Connie's Bounce 00:00 Tools
Magic And Music 00:00 Tools
Big Foot 00:00 Tools
A Quiet Place 00:00 Tools
Blue Waltz 00:00 Tools
A Little Sweet 00:00 Tools
There's No You 00:00 Tools
Dance Griot 00:00 Tools
Tropical Forest 00:00 Tools
Shirley 00:00 Tools
You're Mine You 00:00 Tools
Bluebird 00:00 Tools
Straight, No Chaser 00:00 Tools
Barbados 00:00 Tools
Jacqui 00:00 Tools
Soft Shoe 00:00 Tools
Kardouba 00:00 Tools
We Speak 00:00 Tools
Matteo's Affair 00:00 Tools
Triptych Prayer/Protest/Peace 00:00 Tools
Swingin' 00:00 Tools
The Villa 00:00 Tools
Rebirth 00:00 Tools
I Remember Clifford 00:00 Tools
You're Mine, You 00:00 Tools
I Can't Get Started 00:00 Tools
Sophisticated Lady 00:00 Tools
January V [Instrumental] 00:00 Tools
Joddy's Cha Cha Cha 00:00 Tools
Brilliant Corners, Part 1 00:00 Tools
Brilliant Corners, Part 2 00:00 Tools
Sing Sing Sing 00:00 Tools
Drum Conversation (Part 2) 00:00 Tools
Mop Mop 00:00 Tools
Filidé 00:00 Tools
Tain't Nobody's Bizness if I Do 00:00 Tools
Tears for Johannesburg (Edit) 00:00 Tools
Septemberly 00:00 Tools
Street Dance 00:00 Tools
Moon-Faced and Starry-Eyed 00:00 Tools
Clifford's Axe 00:00 Tools
Shirley - Mono Mix 00:00 Tools
Half Nelson 00:00 Tools
Freedom 00:00 Tools
Tympanalli 00:00 Tools
So Easy 00:00 Tools
Lands End 00:00 Tools
'Round Midnight 00:00 Tools
January V (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Tricotism 00:00 Tools
George's Dilemma 00:00 Tools
Long Tall Dexter 00:00 Tools
Moon Faced, Starry-Eyed 00:00 Tools
Triptych - Prayer, Protest, Peace 00:00 Tools
Yesterdays 00:00 Tools
Minor Mode Blues 00:00 Tools
Drum Talk 00:00 Tools
Moonlight Becomes You 00:00 Tools
Maximum 00:00 Tools
Dexter Rides Again 00:00 Tools
Bring It On Home 00:00 Tools
Afro Blue 00:00 Tools
Stardust 00:00 Tools
Were You There When They Crucified My Lord feat J.C. White Singers 00:00 Tools
Perhaps 00:00 Tools
Drum Conversation pt. 2 00:00 Tools
Memo: To Maurice 00:00 Tools
That Old Devil Called Love 00:00 Tools
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes 00:00 Tools
The Drum Also Waltzes, Pt. 1 00:00 Tools
Toot, Toot, Tootsie Goodbye 00:00 Tools
That Ole Devil Called Love 00:00 Tools
If I Love Again 00:00 Tools
Hi Hat 04:36 Tools
Mwalimu 00:00 Tools
My Old Flame - Mono Mix 00:00 Tools
"C.M." 00:00 Tools
Star Eyes 00:00 Tools
Memo: To Maurice - Mono Mix 00:00 Tools
Gerkin For Perkin 00:00 Tools
Prince Albert 00:00 Tools
Six Bits Blues 00:00 Tools
Ceciliana 00:00 Tools
Valse Hot (II) 00:00 Tools
Medley (Parisian Sketches): The Tower / The Champs / The Caves / The Left Bank / The Arch 00:00 Tools
A Night in Tunisa 00:00 Tools
Shadows 00:00 Tools
Jordu - 2005 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Action 00:00 Tools
That's the Stuff You Gotta Watch 00:00 Tools
Tears 00:00 Tools
Sassy Max (Self Portrait) 00:00 Tools
Jor-Du 00:00 Tools
Take the a Train 00:00 Tools
Falling in Love with Love 00:00 Tools
Reach for It 00:00 Tools
All God's Children Got Rhythm 00:00 Tools
Self Portrait 00:00 Tools
Spoken Introduction By Max Roach 00:00 Tools
All God's Chillun Got Rhythm 00:00 Tools
A Little Booker 00:00 Tools
The Drum Also Waltzes, Pt. 2 00:00 Tools
A New Day 00:00 Tools
Villa 00:00 Tools
Freedom Day (feat. Abbey Lincoln, Booker Little & Coleman Hawkins) 00:00 Tools
Little Folks Jazz 00:00 Tools
Laugh, Clown, Laugh 00:00 Tools
Baby Sis 00:00 Tools
This Night Mountain 00:00 Tools
Mildama 00:00 Tools
Petit Dйjeuner 00:00 Tools
Circles 00:00 Tools
Red River Road 00:00 Tools
I'll Take Romance (II) 00:00 Tools
Jodie's Cha Cha 00:00 Tools
Love Letters [*] 00:00 Tools
Parisian Sketches (The Tower/The Champs/The Caves/The Left Bank/The Arch) 00:00 Tools
These Foolish Things 00:00 Tools
I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face 00:00 Tools
Zimbabwe 00:00 Tools
Tomorrow 00:00 Tools
One 00:00 Tools
Blues for a Hip King 00:00 Tools
The Pilgrim 00:00 Tools
Hello Young Lovers 00:00 Tools
Libertй 00:00 Tools
Billy The Kid 00:00 Tools
Driva' Man (feat. Abbey Lincoln, Booker Little & Coleman Hawkins) 00:00 Tools
The Smoke That Thunders 00:00 Tools
My Old Flame - Stereo Mix 00:00 Tools
Let Up 00:00 Tools
Darn That Dream 00:00 Tools
Larry Larue 00:00 Tools
Jamaican Sun 00:00 Tools
Lover (stereo version) 00:00 Tools
I Can't Get Started - 2005 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Four - X 00:00 Tools
That Tired Routine Called Love 00:00 Tools
Drums Solo 00:00 Tools
Almost Like Me - LP Version 00:00 Tools
When Malindy Sings 00:00 Tools
Lover (Mono Version) 00:00 Tools
Scotch Blues 00:00 Tools
Brushes And Brass 00:00 Tools
Stop Motion - Live 00:00 Tools
Garvey' s Ghost 00:00 Tools
Kids Know 00:00 Tools
It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) [*] 00:00 Tools
Freedom Day (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Lover (II) 00:00 Tools
The Loadstar 00:00 Tools
Minor Trouble [*] 00:00 Tools
Chattahoochee Red 00:00 Tools
Milestones 00:00 Tools
Gertrude's Bounce 00:00 Tools
Memo: To Maurice - Stereo Mix 00:00 Tools
The Scene Is Clean 00:00 Tools
Shirley - Stereo Mix 00:00 Tools
Survivors 00:00 Tools
In the Red 00:00 Tools
Piano Solo 00:00 Tools
Mr X 00:00 Tools
Exhibit A 00:00 Tools
Mr Seven 00:00 Tools
I Get a Kick Out of You - 2005 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Nouveau Complet 00:00 Tools
Breakfast 00:00 Tools
The House I Live In 00:00 Tools
Love Is A Many Splendored Thing 00:00 Tools
Facts About Max 00:00 Tools
It Don't Mean A Thing (If It A 00:00 Tools
Webb City 00:00 Tools
Sing, Sing, Sing 00:00 Tools
Flight To Jordan 00:00 Tools
What Am I Here For? 00:00 Tools
Transfiguration 00:00 Tools
Blues Walk 00:00 Tools
Yesterday's 00:00 Tools
Joyspring 00:00 Tools
Parisian Sketches (Includes "The Tower", "The Champs", "The Caves", "The Left Bank", and "The Arch") 00:00 Tools
Who Will Buy? 00:00 Tools
Good Bait 00:00 Tools
It's Christmas Again 00:00 Tools
Stopin' At The Savoy 00:00 Tools
Stop Motion, Pt. 1 00:00 Tools
The Dream/It's Time 00:00 Tools
Triptch 00:00 Tools
Homecoming 00:00 Tools
Come Sunday 00:00 Tools
Gunga Din 00:00 Tools
Salt Peanuts 00:00 Tools
Un Nouveau 00:00 Tools
Drums 00:00 Tools
Presentation 00:00 Tools
Triptych (Prayer - Protest - P 00:00 Tools
Nommo (Side A) 00:00 Tools
Wefe/Wee-Fay/ 00:00 Tools
Driva Man (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Flirtations 00:00 Tools
Tenderly - 2005 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Drum Conversation (Max Roach Drum Solo) 00:00 Tools
The Champs 00:00 Tools
Brush 'em 00:00 Tools
Gershwin Medley 00:00 Tools
Max's Variations (based on "Pop Goes The Weasel") 00:00 Tools
The Caves 00:00 Tools
Au Private 00:00 Tools
What Is This Thing Called Love? 00:00 Tools
Perdido 00:00 Tools
Morning / Midday 00:00 Tools
Cry Me a River 00:00 Tools
Tears for Johannesburg (feat. Abbey Lincoln, Booker Little & Coleman Hawkins) 00:00 Tools
George's Dilemna 00:00 Tools
Stompin' At The Savoy - Mono Outchorus 00:00 Tools
Time's up 00:00 Tools
Stop Motion Pt. 2 00:00 Tools
In the Red (An X-Mas Carol) 00:00 Tools
Time 00:00 Tools
Parisian Thoroughfare - 2005 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Kardouba - Live 00:00 Tools
Memories Of You 00:00 Tools
The Arch 00:00 Tools
Drums Conversation 00:00 Tools
Tryptych- Prayer-Protest-Peace 00:00 Tools
Conversation [Drum Solo] 00:00 Tools
In a Transitory Mood 00:00 Tools
C.M. 00:00 Tools
Triptych: Prayer / Protest / Peace (feat. Abbey Lincoln, Booker Little & Coleman Hawkins) 00:00 Tools
Lullaby of Birdland 00:00 Tools
The Left Bank (Fourth Part of "Parisian Sketches") 00:00 Tools
Speak Low - Second Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
Dr. Free Zee 00:00 Tools
Triptych: Prayer, Protest, Peace 00:00 Tools
Garvey's Ghost (feat. Carlos "Potato" Valdez & Carlos "Totico" Eugenio) 00:00 Tools
Two, Three, One, Oh! 00:00 Tools
Sweet And Lovely 00:00 Tools
The Day'll Come 00:00 Tools
Simple Waltz 00:00 Tools
Joy Spring - 2005 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Tears For Johanessburg 00:00 Tools
02 - Mama 00:00 Tools
Jodie' Cha-Cha 00:00 Tools
Embraceable You 00:00 Tools
Take the 'A' Train 00:00 Tools
The Theme 00:00 Tools
Powell's Prances 00:00 Tools
Freedome Day 00:00 Tools
A Little Taste 00:00 Tools
Clifford's Axe - 2005 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Where or When 00:00 Tools
Chi Chi 00:00 Tools
Ellington Medley 00:00 Tools
C M 00:00 Tools
Gandolfo's Bounce - Alternative Version 00:00 Tools
Woodyn' You 00:00 Tools
Tula Dubula 00:00 Tools
Parisian Sketches: The Tower / The Champs / The Caves / The Left Bank / The Arch 00:00 Tools
Sunset Eyes - 2005 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Now's TH Etime 00:00 Tools
Caravan 00:00 Tools
Interaction 00:00 Tools
Speak Low - First Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
Too Clean 00:00 Tools
La Preparation 00:00 Tools
When Lights Are Low 00:00 Tools
Jordu - Live 00:00 Tools
Milano - Alternative Version 00:00 Tools
Old Folks - Alternative Version 00:00 Tools
Max's Variations (From "Variations On A Familiar Theme" Version) 00:00 Tools
Four X 00:00 Tools
Nickels and Dimes 00:00 Tools
Sparring 00:00 Tools
J.C. Moses 00:00 Tools
Snake Out 00:00 Tools
Mistral Breeze 00:00 Tools
Come Rain or Come Shine - First Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
Tymparnalli 00:00 Tools
The Tower 00:00 Tools
Lover (cont.) 00:00 Tools
Chattahoocee Red 00:00 Tools
Un Noveau Complet 00:00 Tools
Nommo (Side B) 00:00 Tools
Triptych ~prayer~protest~peace 00:00 Tools
Minor Meeting 00:00 Tools
Symbolic Cymbals 00:00 Tools
Rhaoul 00:00 Tools
Scramble 00:00 Tools
Cheryl 00:00 Tools
The long march 00:00 Tools
Love For Sale - Live 00:00 Tools
Stompin' at the Savoy (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Swingin' The Blues 00:00 Tools
To Lady (Live) 00:00 Tools
Stop Motion (Live) 00:00 Tools
Triptych: Prayer-Protest-Peace 00:00 Tools
Scott Free - part I 00:00 Tools
All Africa (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
The Glow Worm 00:00 Tools
Kim 00:00 Tools
Off My Back, Jack 00:00 Tools
All God's Chillun Got Rhythm - 2005 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Never Let Me Go - First Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
Triptych: Prayer / Protest / Peace (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Jet Downing Time 00:00 Tools
Bounce 'em 00:00 Tools
Fleurette Africaine 00:00 Tools
Jubilee 00:00 Tools
Flide 00:00 Tools
Valse Hot (cont.) 00:00 Tools
K.C. Blues 00:00 Tools
Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Goodbye 00:00 Tools
Driva'man (feat. Abbey Lincoln) 00:00 Tools
Flossie Lou 00:00 Tools
Bernsha Swing 00:00 Tools
Daahoud - 2005 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
A Threesome Thing 00:00 Tools
I Concentrate on You - Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
What Is This Thing Called Love 00:00 Tools
Lil Max 00:00 Tools
For Dancers Only 00:00 Tools
You Don't Know What Love Is 00:00 Tools
Sophisticated Lady - Live 00:00 Tools
Happy Birthday 00:00 Tools
Ghost Dance (Part 1, 2 & 3) 00:00 Tools
I'll Take Romance (cont.) 00:00 Tools
St. Thomas 00:00 Tools
Woody'n You 00:00 Tools
Triptych (prayer - protest - peace) 00:00 Tools
Never Leave Me - Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
Paul's Pal 00:00 Tools
Oh Yeah, Oh Yeah (feat. Kenny Dorham) 00:00 Tools
Parsian Thoroughfare 00:00 Tools
You're Mine, You - First Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
Blues for J.P. 00:00 Tools
You're Mine, You - Second Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
Abbey Lincoln 00:00 Tools
Come Rain or Come Shine - Second Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
Big Foot - First Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
money jungle 00:00 Tools
Triptych- prayer-protest-peace 00:00 Tools
Pt. 1 Duets 00:00 Tools
Driva' Man (01 We Insist (Freedom Now Suite) 00:00 Tools
Triptych: Prayer - Protest - Peace 00:00 Tools
But Beautiful 00:00 Tools
Scott Free - Part II 00:00 Tools
Parisian Sketches - Includes "The Tower", "The Champs", "The Caves", "The Left Bank", and "The Arch 00:00 Tools
Into the Void 00:00 Tools
Free for C. T. 00:00 Tools
All Africa (feat. Abbey Lincoln, Booker Little & Coleman Hawkins) 00:00 Tools
Wild Is the Wind - Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
Bright Moments 00:00 Tools
You're Mine, You - Third Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
Never Let Me Go - Second Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
The Drum Also Waltzes (Part 1) 00:00 Tools
All the Things You Are / 52nd Street Theme 00:00 Tools
The Song Is You 00:00 Tools
To Lady - Live 00:00 Tools
Toot Toot Tootsie Goodbye 00:00 Tools
Parisian Sketches: The Tower/The Champs/The Caves/The Left ... 00:00 Tools
To Basie With Love 00:00 Tools
When I Fall In Love 00:00 Tools
I Remember You 00:00 Tools
Take The "A" Train 00:00 Tools
christina 00:00 Tools
Makin' Whoopee 00:00 Tools
Drum Conversation - Part 1 00:00 Tools
Audio Blues, Part 1 00:00 Tools
Audio Blues, Part 2 00:00 Tools
Lonesome Lover (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Garvey's Ghost [Edit] 00:00 Tools
Henrique e Juliano - Vem novinha www.loucosporsucesso.com 00:00 Tools
Stompin' At The Savoy (Mono Outchorus) 00:00 Tools
Clouds 00:00 Tools
Tears for Johannesburg (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
The Nearness Of You 00:00 Tools
The Night Mountain 00:00 Tools
Once over Lightly 00:00 Tools
Mop Mop - Live 00:00 Tools
January V [Max Roach (M'Boom)] 00:00 Tools
Ending 00:00 Tools
My Old Flame (Mono) 00:00 Tools
In The Light 00:00 Tools
Midlama 00:00 Tools
If You Could See Me Now 00:00 Tools
01-Driva' Man 00:00 Tools
Nica (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Blues Mambo 00:00 Tools
Elixir Suite 00:00 Tools
Ceciliana - Live 00:00 Tools
Sweet Clifford 00:00 Tools
Jeru 00:00 Tools
Henry Street Blues 00:00 Tools
Blues Watz 00:00 Tools
Ruby My Dear 00:00 Tools
Let They People Go 00:00 Tools
Anthropology (Thriving on a Riff) 00:00 Tools
Monk's Dream 00:00 Tools
Blues for J. P. 00:00 Tools
What It Is 00:00 Tools
The Drum Also Waltzes (Part 2) 00:00 Tools
Un noveau complet (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Hitting It 00:00 Tools
Soul Eyes 00:00 Tools
Who Will Buy? - Live 00:00 Tools
Chatahoochiee Red 00:00 Tools
Willow Weep For Me 00:00 Tools
Drum Also Waltzes 00:00 Tools
My Old Flame (feat. Max Roach) [Take 1] [Stereo] 00:00 Tools
Wefe 00:00 Tools
wig wise 00:00 Tools
Groovin' Out 00:00 Tools
Liberté (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Cliff Wlak (feat. Booker Little & Jo Jones) 00:00 Tools
Very Special 00:00 Tools
The Glorious Monster (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Cosmic Rays 00:00 Tools
X 00:00 Tools
Triptych - Prayer - Protest - Peace 00:00 Tools
Parisian Sketches (The Tower / The Champs / The Caves / The Left Bank / The Arch) 00:00 Tools
Petit déjeuner (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
This Night Mountain - Live 00:00 Tools
Backward Country Boy Blues 00:00 Tools
My Old Flame (feat. Max Roach) [Take 2] [Mono] 00:00 Tools
Blues In The Night 00:00 Tools
Most Beautiful Girl in the World 00:00 Tools
Libert 00:00 Tools
Our Coline's a Treasure 00:00 Tools
All'Africa 00:00 Tools
Septemberly, Part 2 00:00 Tools
The "Count's" Blues 00:00 Tools
Long As You're Living - Live 00:00 Tools
Daahoud (Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
Step Lightly (Junior's Arrival) 00:00 Tools
Double Delight 00:00 Tools
Drum Solo 00:00 Tools
Never Let Me Go (Second Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
A Little Max (Parfait) 00:00 Tools
Petit Djeuner 00:00 Tools
Memo To Maurice 00:00 Tools
Consanguinity 00:00 Tools
South Africa Goddamn 00:00 Tools
Warm Valley 00:00 Tools
U-Jaa-Ma 00:00 Tools
Go 00:00 Tools
Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do (feat. Abbey Lincoln, Booker Little, Eric Dolphy & Kenny Dorham) 00:00 Tools
Dungeon Waltz 00:00 Tools
Solitude 00:00 Tools
Driva Man - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Man From South Africa (feat. Carlos "Potato" Valdez & Carlos "Totico" Eugenio) 00:00 Tools
Septemberly, Part 1 00:00 Tools
Absolutions ( LP Version ) 00:00 Tools
Gandolfo´s Bounce 00:00 Tools
The Blues Walk (Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
Messin' Around 00:00 Tools
This Time the Dreams On Me 00:00 Tools
Bastille Day 00:00 Tools
My Old Flame [Stereo Take] 00:00 Tools
The Drum Also Waltzes - LP Version 00:00 Tools
Stompin´at the Savoy 00:00 Tools
Woody ' You 00:00 Tools
Who Will Buy 00:00 Tools
The Casbah (alternate take) 00:00 Tools
Parisian Sketches: The Tower/The Champs/The Caves/The Left Bank/The Arch 00:00 Tools
Magic 00:00 Tools
Inception 00:00 Tools
Junka 00:00 Tools
Max's Variations (from "Variations on a Familiar Theme") 00:00 Tools
Donna Dee 00:00 Tools
What's New 00:00 Tools
I Don´t Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You 00:00 Tools
The Arrival 00:00 Tools
Speak, Brother, Speak! 00:00 Tools
Big Sid 00:00 Tools
Triptych (Prayer, Protest, Pea 00:00 Tools
Dr Free-Zee 00:00 Tools
Memo: To Maurice (Mono) 00:00 Tools
Shirley (Mono) 00:00 Tools
I'll Remember April - from the film Ride ‘Em Cowboy - Version 1 00:00 Tools
Parisian Sketches - The Tower, The Champs, The Caves, The Left Bank, The Arch 00:00 Tools
I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You 00:00 Tools
Hot House 00:00 Tools
Parisian Sketches: The Tower/T 00:00 Tools
Drum Conversation - Part 2 00:00 Tools
Place De La Concorde 00:00 Tools
The Underground 00:00 Tools
As Time Goes By 00:00 Tools
Decision 00:00 Tools
Nommo - LP Version 00:00 Tools
Wild Is the Wind (Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
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Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz drummer and composer. A pioneer of bebop, Roach went on to work in many other styles of music, and is generally considered alongside the most important drummers in history. He worked with many famous jazz musicians, including Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Billy Eckstine, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Eric Dolphy and Booker Little. He was inducted into the Down Beat Hall of Fame in 1980 and the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1992. Roach also led his own groups, notably a pioneering quintet co-led with trumpeter Clifford Brown and the percussion ensemble M'Boom, and made numerous musical statements relating to the Civil Rights Movement. Roach was born in the Township of Newland, Pasquotank County, North Carolina, which borders the southern edge of the Great Dismal Swamp, to Alphonse and Cressie Roach. Many confuse this with Newland Town in Avery County. Although Roach's birth certificate lists his date of birth as January 10, 1924, Roach has been quoted by Phil Schaap as having stated that his family believed he was born on January 8, 1925. Roach's family moved to the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York when he was 4 years old. He grew up in a musical home, his mother being a gospel singer. He started to play bugle in parade orchestras at a young age. At the age of 10, he was already playing drums in some gospel bands. In 1942, as an eighteen-year-old fresh out of Boys High School, he was called to fill in for Sonny Greer with the Duke Ellington Orchestra when they were performing at the Paramount Theater. In 1942, Roach started to go out in the jazz clubs of the 52nd Street and at 78th Street & Broadway for Georgie Jay's Taproom (playing with schoolmate Cecil Payne). His first professional recording took place in December 1943, supporting Coleman Hawkins. Roach's most significant innovations came in the 1940s, when he and jazz drummer Kenny Clarke devised a new concept of musical time. By playing the beat-by-beat pulse of standard 4/4 time on the "ride" cymbal instead of on the thudding bass drum, Roach and Clarke developed a flexible, flowing rhythmic pattern that allowed soloists to play freely. The new approach also left space for the drummer to insert dramatic accents on the snare drum, "crash" cymbal and other components of the trap set. By matching his rhythmic attack with a tune's melody, Roach brought a newfound subtlety of expression to his instrument. He often shifted the dynamic emphasis from one part of his drum kit to another within a single phrase, creating a sense of tonal color and rhythmic surprise. The idea was to shatter musical conventions and take full advantage of the drummer's unique position. "In no other society", Roach once observed, "do they have one person play with all four limbs." While that approach is common today, when Clarke and Roach introduced the new style in the 1940s it was a revolutionary musical advance. "When Max Roach's first records with Charlie Parker were released by Savoy in 1945," jazz historian Burt Korall wrote in the Oxford Companion to Jazz, "drummers experienced awe and puzzlement and even fear." One of those awed drummers, Stan Levey, summed up Roach's importance: "I came to realize that, because of him, drumming no longer was just time, it was music." He was one of the first drummers (along with Kenny Clarke) to play in the bebop style, and performed in bands led by Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Coleman Hawkins, Bud Powell, and Miles Davis. Roach played on many of Parker's most important records, including the Savoy November 1945 session, a turning point in recorded jazz. In 1952 Roach co-founded Debut Records with bassist Charles Mingus. This label released a record of a concert, billed and widely considered as "the greatest concert ever," called "Jazz at Massey Hall," featuring Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Mingus and Roach. Also released on this label was the groundbreaking bass-and-drum free improvisation, "Percussion Discussion." In 1954, he formed a quintet featuring trumpeter Clifford Brown, tenor saxophonist Harold Land, pianist Richie Powell (brother of Bud Powell), and bassist George Morrow, though Land left the following year and Sonny Rollins replaced him. The group was a prime example of the hard bop style also played by Art Blakey and Horace Silver. Tragically, this group was to be short-lived; Brown and Powell were killed in a car accident on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in June 1956. After Brown and Powell's deaths, Roach continued leading a similarly configured group, with Kenny Dorham (and later the short-lived Booker Little) on trumpet, George Coleman on tenor and pianist Ray Bryant. Roach expanded the standard form of hard-bop using 3/4 waltz rhythms and modality in 1957 with his album Jazz in 3/4 time. During this period, Roach recorded a series of other albums for the EmArcy label featuring the brothers Stanley and Tommy Turrentine. In 1960 he composed the We Insist! - Freedom Now suite with lyrics by Oscar Brown Jr., after being invited to contribute to commemorations of the hundredth anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. Using his musical abilities to comment on the African-American experience would be a significant part of his career. Unfortunately, Roach suffered from being blacklisted by the American recording industry for a period in the 1960s. In 1966 with his album Drums Unlimited (which includes several tracks that are entirely drums solos) he proved that drums can be a solo instrument able to play theme, variations, rhythmically cohesive phrases. He described his approach to music as "the creation of organized sound." Among the many important records Roach has made is the classic Money Jungle 1962, with Mingus and Duke Ellington. This is generally regarded as one of the very finest trio albums ever made. During the 70s, Roach formed a unique musical organization -- M'Boom -- a percussion orchestra. Each member of this unit composed for it and performed on many percussion instruments. Personnel included Fred King, Joe Chambers, Warren Smith, Freddie Waits, Roy Brooks, Omar Clay, Ray Mantilla, Francisco Mora, and Eli Fountain. Not content to expand on the musical territory he had already become known for, Roach spent the decades of the 80s and 90s continually finding new ways to express his musical expression and presentation. In the early 80s, he began presenting entire concerts solo, proving that this multi-percussion instrument, in the hands of such a great master, could fulfill the demands of solo performance and be entirely satisfying to an audience. He created memorable compositions in these solo concerts; a solo record was released by Bay State, a Japanese label, just about impossible to obtain. One of these solo concerts is available on video, which also includes a filming of a recording date for "Chattahoochee Red," featuring his working quartet, Odean Pope, Cecil Bridgewater and Calvin Hill. He embarked on a series of duet recordings. Departing from the style of presentation he was best known for, most of the music on these recordings is free improvisation, created with the avant-garde musicians Cecil Taylor, Anthony Braxton, Archie Shepp, Abdullah Ibrahim and Connie Crothers. He created duets with other performers: a recorded duet with the oration by Martin Luther King, "I Have a Dream"; a duet with video artist Kit Fitzgerald, who improvised video imagery while Roach spontaneously created the music; a classic duet with his life-long friend and associate Dizzy Gillespie; a duet concert recording with Mal Waldron. He wrote music for theater, such as plays written by Sam Shephard, presented at La Mama E.T.C. in New York City. He found new contexts for presentation, creating unique musical ensembles. One of these groups was "The Double Quartet." It featured his regular performing quartet, with personnel as above, except Tyrone Brown replacing Hill; this quartet joined with "The Uptown String Quartet," led by his daughter Maxine Roach, featuring Diane Monroe, Lesa Terry and Eileen Folson. Another ensemble was the "So What Brass Quintet," a group comprised of five brass instrumentalists and Roach, no chordal instrumnent, no bass player. Much of the performance consisted of drums and horn duets. The ensemble consisted of two trumpets, trombone, French horn and tuba. Musicians included Cecil Bridgewater, Frank Gordon, Eddie Henderson, Steve Turre, Delfeayo Marsalis, Robert Stewart, Tony Underwood, Marshall Sealy, and Mark Taylor. Roach presented his music with orchestras and gospel choruses. He performed a concerto with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He wrote for and performed with the Walter White gospel choir and the John Motley Singers. Roach performed with dancers: the Alvin Aily Dance Company, the Dianne McIntyre Dance Company, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. In the early 80s, Roach surprised his fans by performing in a hip hop concert, featuring the artist-rapper Fab Five Freddy and the New York Break Dancers. He expressed the insight that there was a strong kinship between the outpouring of expression of these young black artists and the art he had pursued all his life. During all these years, while he ventured into new territory during a lifetime of innovation, he kept his contact with his musical point of origin. His last recording, "Friendship", was with trumpet master Clark Terry, the two long-standing friends in duet and quartet. Max Roach died in the early morning of August 16, 2007, in Manhattan. Roach started as a traditional grip player but switched exclusively to matched grip as his career progressed. Roach's most significant innovations came in the 1940s, when he and jazz drummer Kenny Clarke devised a new concept of musical time. By playing the beat-by-beat pulse of standard 4/4 time on the "ride" cymbal instead of on the thudding bass drum, Roach and Clarke developed a flexible, flowing rhythmic pattern that allowed soloists to play freely. The new approach also left space for the drummer to insert dramatic accents on the snare drum, "crash" cymbal and other components of the trap set. By matching his rhythmic attack with a tune's melody, Roach brought a newfound subtlety of expression to his instrument. He often shifted the dynamic emphasis from one part of his drum kit to another within a single phrase, creating a sense of tonal color and rhythmic surprise. The idea was to shatter musical conventions and take full advantage of the drummer's unique position. "In no other society", Roach once observed, "do they have one person play with all four limbs." While that approach is common today, when Clarke and Roach introduced the new style in the 1940s it was a revolutionary musical advance. "When Max Roach's first records with Charlie Parker were released by Savoy in 1945", jazz historian Burt Korall wrote in the Oxford Companion to Jazz, "drummers experienced awe and puzzlement and even fear." One of those awed drummers, Stan Levey, summed up Roach's importance: "I came to realize that, because of him, drumming no longer was just time, it was music." In 1966, with his album Drums Unlimited (which includes several tracks that are entirely drum solos) he demonstrated that drums can be a solo instrument able to play theme, variations, rhythmically cohesive phrases. He described his approach to music as "the creation of organized sound." The track "The drum also waltzes" was often quoted by John Bonham in his Moby Dick drum solo and revisited by other drummers like Neil Peart and Steve Smith. Bill Bruford performed a cover on the album Flags (1985). Roach was given a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant in 1988, cited as a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in France (1989), twice awarded the French Grand Prix du Disque, elected to the International Percussive Art Society's Hall of Fame and the Downbeat Magazine Hall of Fame, awarded Harvard Jazz Master, celebrated by Aaron Davis Hall, given eight honorary doctorate degrees, including degrees awarded by Medgar Evers College, CUNY, the University of Bologna, Italy and Columbia University. While spending the later years of his life at the Mill Basin Sunrise assisted living home, in Brooklyn, Max was honored with a proclamation honoring his musical achievements by Brooklyn borough president Marty Markowitz. In 1986 the London borough of Lambeth named a park in Brixton after him. Roach was able to officially open it when he visited the UK that year invited by the Greater London Council, when he performed at a concert in March at the Royal Albert Hall together with Ghanaian master drummer Ghanaba and others. Roach was inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame in 2009. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.