Max Roach was excited by the premise and promise of rap when it first hit the music scene. Roach was introduced to the burgeoning genre by his godson and hip hop pioneer Fab 5 Freddy, and would later ...
"Max Roach Way" was introduced in the Brooklyn Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood where he grew up. A Brooklyn neighborhood has honored the late jazz musician Max Roach by renaming a corner after him. If ...
Director Sam Pollard was captivated by the life story of drummer and activist Max Roach 35 years ago. “Seeing Max Roach sit behind a drum set, he had a regal quality about him,” said Pollard. “And I ...
For two extraordinary hours on May 24, 1987, Max Roach (1924-2007) made music live on the air from the Jazz 88 Performance Studio at WBGO in Newark, N.J. The drum master was wearing a grey silk suit ...
Over 2,000 people gathered at Riverside Church in New York on Friday for the funeral of the legendary drummer, educator and activist Max Roach, who died on August 16 at the age of 83. He was credited ...
Max Roach, the master percussionist whose rhythmic innovations defined bebop jazz during a wide-ranging career where he collaborated with artists ranging from Duke Ellington to rapper Fab Five Freddy, ...
Amiri Baraka–Max Roach’s biographer and acclaimed poet and playwright–delivered the eulogy at Roach’s funeral at Riverside Church. Baraka read the poem, “Digging Max,” that he wrote for Roach’s 75th ...
Percussionist and composer Max Roach, who would have turned 100 years old this month, is arguably the greatest drummer of all time. The icon, who died in 2007, played with some of the greatest jazz ...
Who did Max Roach inspire with his astoundingly innovative drumming and exceptional musical eloquence? It might be easier to ask who he didn’t inspire, given the enormous, genre-leaping impact of ...
Max Roach's birth date could easily be a time signature played by the drummer. Though his birth certificate listed his arrival as January 10, 1924, he told radio historian Phil Schapp that his parents ...
It's hard to believe, but drummer Max Roach and tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley recorded just three albums together. In all three cases, Roach was the session leader. On two of the dates, Mobley was ...
Pioneering jazz drummer Max Roach was born on Jan. 10, 1924 in Newland, N.C., and grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. Roach began playing in New York jazz clubs in the early 1940s. From those early days until ...
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