Max Roach

Maxwell Roach (January 10th 1924, Newland (North Carolina) - August 16th 2007, New York), was a Batteur and Compositeur of Jazz.

Biography

Wire of an automobile father mechanic and a mother singer of Gospel, it grows with Brooklyn, where its family settled whereas it was four years old, in an environment as musical as pious, and starts very young person to play of the Bugle in an orchestra of parade. At ten years, it holds already the rods in groups of gospel. It enters to the Manhattan Conservatory Of Music , which it leaves graduate are percussions in 1942, replaces the beater Sony Greer in the orchestra Duke Ellington for a concert in Carnegie hall, then attends the clubs of the fifty-second street where it goes, with Kenny Clarke, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and others, to revolutionize the Jazz with the movement Bebop.

In 1954, it meets the trumpet player Clifford Brown whose association will enrich the world by the Jazz. This quintet will be a great success. It will count in its rows the saxophonists Harold Land and Sony Rollins. Two years later, Clifford Brown and the pianist of the group Richie Powell (brother of Bud Powell) die tragically of an car accident.

In 1957, with Jazz in 3/4 time , it introduces the Valse and opens the way with asymmetrical measurements in the jazz, then in 1966 with Drums Unlimited (compound almost only of solos of battery), it shows that the battery can be an instrument soloist able to play a topic and variations, even of the melodies.

In March 1998, max Roach and the So What Brass Quintet pay homage to Pasteur Martin Luther King at the time of a mass celebrated with the Cathédrale Saint John the Divine with New York.

Max Roach died the August 16th 2007.

Selective discography

  • 1955 : Study in Brown (with Clifford Brown)

  • 1956: Clifford Brown and max Roach At Basin Street
  • 1957: Jazz in 3/4 time
  • 1960: We Insist! Max Roach' S Freedom Now Continuation
  • 1960: Long ace you' Re living room
  • 1961: Percussion Bitter Sweet
  • 1962: Speak, Brother, Speak!
  • 1962 : It' S Time
  • 1978: Birth and Rebirth (duet with Anthony Braxton)
  • 1978: Long time At circus yorks
  • 1979: Long The march (duet with archie Shepp)
  • 1979: Historic Concerts (duet with Cecil Taylor)
  • 1979: One In Two, Two In One (duet with Anthony Braxton)
  • 1979: Me Boom

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