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We Insist! Freedom Now Suite
By Max Roach
Label: Candid Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Driva' Man; Freedom Day; Triptych (Prayer, Protest, Peace); All Africa; Tears For Johannesburg.
Max Roach: We Insist! Freedom Now Suite
by Chris May
Re-released following the passing of drummer Max Roach in August 2007, We Insist! Freedom Now Suite (Candid, 1960) remains a work of enduring musical and social importance. Notwithstanding Roach's central role in the creation of bop, or his later hard bop explorations with trumpeter Clifford Brown, it is, by some margin, the most perfectly realised album ...
A Tribute To Max Roach
by David A. Orthmann
Introduction I can't recall the reason why I picked Percussion Bitter Sweet out of a record store bin in the mid-sixties. It was one of the first recordings I ever purchased. Apart from Max's brilliant drumming and knotty yet accessible compositions, it served as an introduction to iconic musicians like Eric Dolphy, Booker Little, Clifford Jordan, ...
Moments with Max
by Nick Catalano
The passing of Max Roach will initiate countless reminiscences, retrospectives, and reassessments. With his appearances alongside Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie on “Ko-Ko"--the seminal early bebop release--"The Birth of The Cool" with Miles Davis, and on countless recordings with Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk and other bop pioneers, Max set a new standard for percussion even before ...
Jazz Musician Max Roach Dies at 83
Max Roach, the dazzling drummer who helped create the rhythmic language of modern jazz while expanding the expressive possibilities of the drums, died Aug. 15 in New York. He was 83 and had been ill for several years. Mr. Roach was a founding architect of bebop, the high-speed, harmonically advanced music of the 1940s that helped ...
Jazz in 3/4 Time
By Max Roach
Label: EmArcy
Released: 2006
Track listing: Blues Waltz; Valse Hot; I'll Take Romance; Little Folks; Lover; The Most Beautiful Girl in the World.
Max Roach: Jazz in 3/4 Time
by Samuel Chell
At the time of its appearance in 1957, this album, currently part of the limited EmArcy reissue series, was considered somewhat revolutionary due to its all-waltz program. That's become a moot point after all of the triple-meter jazz material that would follow--from “All Blues" to “Waltz for Debby" to “Someday My Prince Will Come." What makes ...
The Complete Jazz at Massey Hall
By Bud Powell
Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2005
Track listing: Embraceable You, Sure Thing, Cherokee, Jubilee, Lullaby of Birdland, Bass- ically Speaking, Drum Conversation, I've Got You Under My Skin.
My Devotion, Polka Dots and Moonbeams, My Heart Stood Still, I Want to Be Happy.
Bass-ically Speaking [Alternate 1], Bass-ically Speaking [Alternate 2], Bass- ically Speaking [Alternate 3], and an untitled blues.
Bobby Watson
by AAJ Staff
In 1977, quite a few eyebrows were raised when drummer Art Blakey, the nurturer of many jazz greats, started touting the country kid in overalls with the alto saxophone as his latest great discovery. Eyebrows remained up in amazement as Bobby Watson let loose with a Parkeresque run of notes. Watson's sweet, full tone evokes both ...
Streams Of Consciousness
By Max Roach
Label: Piadrum Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Streams of Consciousness; Inception; Acclamation; Consanguinity
