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Max Roach
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Maxwell Lemuel Roach is a percussionist, drummer, and jazz composer. He has worked with many of the greatest jazz musicians, including Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Sonny Rollins. He is widely considered to be one of the most important drummers in the history of jazz.
Roach was born in Newland, North Carolina, to Alphonse and Cressie Roach; his family moved to Brooklyn, New York when he was 4 years old. He grew up in a musical context, his mother being a gospel singer, and 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. He performed his first big-time gig in New York City at the age of sixteen, substituting for Sonny Greer in a performance with the Duke Ellington Orchestra. 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)
Deeds, Not Words
By Max Roach
Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2025
Track listing: You Stepped Out of a Dream; Filide; It's You or No One; Jodie's Cha-Cha, Deeds Not Words, Larry-Larue, Conversation.
A Savoy Revival: New OJCs from Hank Mobley & Yusef Lateef
by C. Andrew Hovan
Although the Concord Music Group acquired the legendary Savoy Records archives in 2017, the catalog has seen little reissue activity since. Founded in 1942 by Herman Lubinsky, Savoy earned distinction for documenting rhythm and blues, gospel, and jazz over several decades. The label captured many of bebop's pioneering voices--Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon, Kenny Clarke, and Dizzy ...
Roy Brooks: The Free Slave
by Pierre Giroux
Roy Brooks's The Free Slave, newly reissued on Time Traveler Recordings as a 180-gram vinyl LP, stands as a passionate tribute to the drummer's remarkable artistry and his often overlooked role as one of the most rhythmic thinkers of the post-bop period. Recorded live by Muse Records on April 26, 1970, at Baltimore's renowned Left Bank ...
Ron Carter New Jazz Trio And Foursight Quartet At Birdland
by Paul Reynolds
Ron Carter New Jazz Trio and Foursight Quartet Birdland New York, NYOctober 16 and 23, 2025 Ron Carter turned 88 in May, 2025. That fact is hard to reconcile with the continuing vitality and frequency of his performances, including those with two small groups at Birdland Jazz Club this month--as ...
The "Jazz Detective" Finds A New Muse, Reissues Lost Classics
by Joshua Weiner
Joe Fields (1929-2017) was a jazz producer and record executive who worked for Columbia, MGM, Verve, and, most impactfully, at Prestige in the 1950s and 1960s. Shortly after Prestige was sold to Fantasy in 1971, ending a classic era for the storied label, Fields founded Muse Records to document the next phase in jazz. Muse brought ...
The Jazz Barn: Music Inn, the Berkshires, and the Place of Jazz in American Life
by Katchie Cartwright
The Jazz Barn: Music Inn, the Berkshires, and the Place of Jazz in American Life John Gennari 264 Pages ISBN: #978-1-68458-285-3 Brandeis University Press 2025 Award-winning author, University of Vermont professor and Berkshire County native John Gennari encapsulates his fascinating history of The Jazz ...
Legendary jazz drummer, bandleader and composer Eric McPherson
by Doug Hall
On this show we chat with legendary jazz drummer, band leader, and composer Eric McPherson. Mr. McPherson would be introduced to music and jazz at a very young age. Richard Davis, his godfather and an icon among jazz bassists, was a neighborhood friend of the family, and his mother, a superb dancer-choreographer, deep into the jazz ...
Gary Bartz Is Nobody's Jazz Musician
by Bridget A. Arnwine
Gary Bartz is nobody's jazz musician. What he has built and created as an artist with a career that spans six decades defies labels, especially ones that have storied racist connotations and otherwise derogatory origins like the word jazz. He is a composer of the finest order and as gifted as the most revered names in ...
Cindy Blackman Santana Band at Miner Auditorium
by Steven Roby
Cindy Blackman Santana BandMiner AuditoriumSFJAZZ CenterSan Franciso, CASeptember 14, 2025 On the second of two sold-out nights at Miner Auditorium, Cindy Blackman Santana opened with a brief welcome--"Blue Whale"--and nothing more. The band turned toward the center, eyes on her for the first cue, as if to agree that rhythm would set the terms. ...
