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Max Roach/Jon Jang/Jiebing Chen: Beijing Trio

by Mark Corroto
December 1, 1999

Let me suggest a new name for this group. How about the American-Jing Trio? This combination of African-American Max Roach with Chinese-American Jon Jang and Jiebing Chen of China makes an improvisational music, which can be pinned, straight to a map of American music. The recording, a combination of duos and trios of Roach’s drums, Jang’s Piano and Chen’s Erhu a Chinese two-string violin, is an intimate portrait of well, let’s call it blues. Jang has made his career at ...