
Max Roach
Biography
Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz drummer and composer. A pioneer of bebop, he worked in many other styles of music, and is generally considered one of the most important drummers in history. He worked with many famous jazz musicians, including Clifford Brown, Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Abbey Lincoln, Dinah Washington, Charles Mingus, Billy Eckstine, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Eric Dolphy, Benny Carter, and Booker Little. He also played with his daughter Maxine Roach, a Grammy-nominated violist. He was inducted into the DownBeat Hall of Fame in 1980 and the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1992. In the mid-1950s, Roach co-led a pioneering quintet along with trumpeter Clifford Brown. In 1970, Roach founded the percussion ensemble M'Boom. Description above from the Wikipedia article Max Roach, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)2021 · Self (archive footage)
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat2024 · Self (archive footage)
Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell2021 · Self - Jazz Musician (archive footage)
Max Roach: Live at Blues Alley1981 · Self
Jazz on a Summer's Day1960 · Self
Max Roach - Full Concert - 08/16/92 - Newport Jazz Festival2014 · Themself
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes2023 · Self (archival footage)
Åke Hasselgård story1983 ·
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