Max Roach

Max Roach

Max Roach

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Blues Waltz
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Freedom Day
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The Blues Walk
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All Africa
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Driva Man

Albums

  • Apres-Vous

    Jul 2022 • 17 songs

  • Milestones of a Jazz Legend - Max Roach, Vol. 1
  • Milestones of a Jazz Legend - Max Roach, Vol. 10

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Max Roach

Biography

In a profession star-crossed by early deaths -- especially the bebop division -- Max Roach was long a shining survivor, one of the last giants from the birth of bebop. He and Kenny Clarke instigated a revolution in jazz drumming that persisted for decades; instead of the swing approach of spelling out the pulse with the bass drum, Roach shifted the emphasis to the ride cymbal. The result was a lighter, far more flexible texture, giving drummers more freedom to explore the possibilities of their drum kits and drop random "bombs" on the snare drum, while allowing bop virtuosos o...
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