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href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li>Musician</li><li>composer</li><li>educator</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Instruments</th><td class="infobox-data note"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li>Drums</li><li>percussion</li><li>piano</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Years active</span></th><td class="infobox-data">1944–2002</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Labels</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Capitol_Records" title="Capitol Records">Capitol</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Impulse!_Records" title="Impulse! Records">Impulse!</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de"></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Manhattan_School_of_Music" title="Manhattan School of Music">Manhattan School of Music</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Musical artist</div> <p><b>Maxwell Lemuel Roach</b> (January 10, 1924<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> – August 16, 2007) was an American <a href="/wiki/Jazz" title="Jazz">jazz</a> <a href="/wiki/Jazz_drumming" title="Jazz drumming">drummer</a> and <a href="/wiki/Composer" title="Composer">composer</a>. A pioneer of <a href="/wiki/Bebop" title="Bebop">bebop</a>, he worked in many other styles of music, and is generally considered one of the most important drummers in history.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He worked with many famous jazz musicians, including <a href="/wiki/Clifford_Brown" title="Clifford Brown">Clifford Brown</a>, <a href="/wiki/Coleman_Hawkins" title="Coleman Hawkins">Coleman Hawkins</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie" title="Dizzy Gillespie">Dizzy Gillespie</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Parker" title="Charlie Parker">Charlie Parker</a>, <a href="/wiki/Miles_Davis" title="Miles Davis">Miles Davis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Duke_Ellington" title="Duke Ellington">Duke Ellington</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thelonious_Monk" title="Thelonious Monk">Thelonious Monk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Abbey_Lincoln" title="Abbey Lincoln">Abbey Lincoln</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dinah_Washington" title="Dinah Washington">Dinah Washington</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Mingus" title="Charles Mingus">Charles Mingus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Billy_Eckstine" title="Billy Eckstine">Billy Eckstine</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stan_Getz" title="Stan Getz">Stan Getz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sonny_Rollins" title="Sonny Rollins">Sonny Rollins</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eric_Dolphy" title="Eric Dolphy">Eric Dolphy</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Booker_Little" title="Booker Little">Booker Little</a>. He also played with his daughter Maxine Roach, a Grammy nominated violist. He was inducted into the <i><a href="/wiki/DownBeat" title="DownBeat">DownBeat</a></i> Hall of Fame in 1980 and the <i><a href="/wiki/Modern_Drummer" title="Modern Drummer">Modern Drummer</a></i> Hall of Fame in 1992.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the mid-1950s, Roach co-led a pioneering <a href="/wiki/Quintet" title="Quintet">quintet</a> along with trumpeter <a href="/wiki/Clifford_Brown" title="Clifford Brown">Clifford Brown</a>. 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The Township of Newland is sometimes mistaken for Newland Town in <a href="/wiki/Avery_County,_North_Carolina" title="Avery County, North Carolina">Avery County, North Carolina</a>. </p><p>Roach's family moved to the <a href="/wiki/Bedford-Stuyvesant" class="mw-redirect" title="Bedford-Stuyvesant">Bedford-Stuyvesant</a> neighborhood of <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn">Brooklyn, New York</a>, when he was four years old. He grew up in a musical home with his <a href="/wiki/Gospel_singer" class="mw-redirect" title="Gospel singer">gospel singer</a> mother. He started to play <a href="/wiki/Bugle_(instrument)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bugle (instrument)">bugle</a> in parades at a young age. At the age of 10, he was already playing drums in some gospel bands. </p><p>In 1942, as an 18-year-old recently graduated from <a href="/wiki/Boys_and_Girls_High_School" title="Boys and Girls High School">Boys High School</a> in <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn">Brooklyn</a>, he was called to fill in for <a href="/wiki/Sonny_Greer" title="Sonny Greer">Sonny Greer</a> with the <a href="/wiki/Duke_Ellington" title="Duke Ellington">Duke Ellington</a> Orchestra performing at the <a href="/wiki/Paramount_Theatre_(New_York_City)" class="mw-redirect" title="Paramount Theatre (New York City)">Paramount Theater</a> in <a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a>. He started going to the <a href="/wiki/Jazz_club" title="Jazz club">jazz clubs</a> on <a href="/wiki/52nd_Street_(Manhattan)" title="52nd Street (Manhattan)">52nd Street</a> and at 78th Street & <a href="/wiki/Broadway_(Manhattan)" title="Broadway (Manhattan)">Broadway</a> for Georgie Jay's Taproom, where he played with schoolmate <a href="/wiki/Cecil_Payne" title="Cecil Payne">Cecil Payne</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Roach's_account_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Roach's_account-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His first professional recording took place in December 1943, backing <a href="/wiki/Coleman_Hawkins" title="Coleman Hawkins">Coleman Hawkins</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Max_Roach_Discography_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Max_Roach_Discography-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was one of the first drummers, along with <a href="/wiki/Kenny_Clarke" title="Kenny Clarke">Kenny Clarke</a>, to play in the <a href="/wiki/Bebop" title="Bebop">bebop</a> style. Roach performed in bands led by <a href="/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie" title="Dizzy Gillespie">Dizzy Gillespie</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Parker" title="Charlie Parker">Charlie Parker</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thelonious_Monk" title="Thelonious Monk">Thelonious Monk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Coleman_Hawkins" title="Coleman Hawkins">Coleman Hawkins</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bud_Powell" title="Bud Powell">Bud Powell</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Miles_Davis" title="Miles Davis">Miles Davis</a>. He played on many of Parker's most important records, including the <a href="/wiki/Savoy_Records" title="Savoy Records">Savoy Records</a> November 1945 session, which marked a turning point in recorded jazz. His early <a href="/wiki/Drum_brush" class="mw-redirect" title="Drum brush">brush</a> work with Powell's trio, especially at fast tempos, has been highly praised.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Roach nurtured an interest in and respect for <a href="/wiki/Afro-Caribbean_music" title="Afro-Caribbean music">Afro-Caribbean music</a> and traveled to <a href="/wiki/Haiti" title="Haiti">Haiti</a> in the late 1940s to study with the traditional drummer <a href="/wiki/Ti_Roro" title="Ti Roro">Ti Roro</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1950s">1950s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Max_Roach&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 1950s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Roach studied <a href="/wiki/Classical_percussion" class="mw-redirect" title="Classical percussion">classical percussion</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Manhattan_School_of_Music" title="Manhattan School of Music">Manhattan School of Music</a> from 1950 to 1953, working toward a <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Music" title="Bachelor of Music">Bachelor of Music</a> degree. The school awarded him an <a href="/wiki/Honorary_Doctorate" class="mw-redirect" title="Honorary Doctorate">Honorary Doctorate</a> in 1990. </p><p>In 1952, Roach co-founded <a href="/wiki/Debut_Records" title="Debut Records">Debut Records</a> with bassist <a href="/wiki/Charles_Mingus" title="Charles Mingus">Charles Mingus</a>, one of the first artist-owned labels. The label released a record of a May 15, 1953, concert billed as "the greatest concert ever", which came to be known as <i><a href="/wiki/Jazz_at_Massey_Hall" title="Jazz at Massey Hall">Jazz at Massey Hall</a></i>, featuring Parker, Gillespie, Powell, Mingus, and Roach. Also released on this label was the groundbreaking bass-and-drum <a href="/wiki/Free_improvisation" title="Free improvisation">free improvisation</a>, <i>Percussion Discussion</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1954, Roach and trumpeter <a href="/wiki/Clifford_Brown" title="Clifford Brown">Clifford Brown</a> formed a quintet that also featured tenor saxophonist <a href="/wiki/Harold_Land" title="Harold Land">Harold Land</a>, pianist <a href="/wiki/Richie_Powell" title="Richie Powell">Richie Powell</a> (brother of Bud Powell), and bassist <a href="/wiki/George_Morrow_(bassist)" title="George Morrow (bassist)">George Morrow</a>. Land left the quintet the following year and was replaced by <a href="/wiki/Sonny_Rollins" title="Sonny Rollins">Sonny Rollins</a>. The group was a prime example of the <a href="/wiki/Hard_bop" title="Hard bop">hard bop</a> style also played by <a href="/wiki/Art_Blakey" title="Art Blakey">Art Blakey</a> and <a href="/wiki/Horace_Silver" title="Horace Silver">Horace Silver</a>. Later that year, he relocated to the Los Angeles area, where he replaced <a href="/wiki/Shelly_Manne" title="Shelly Manne">Shelly Manne</a> in the popular Lighthouse All Stars.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Brown and Richie Powell were killed in a car accident on the <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania_Turnpike" title="Pennsylvania Turnpike">Pennsylvania Turnpike</a> in June 1956. The first album Roach recorded after their deaths was <i><a href="/wiki/Max_Roach_%2B_4" title="Max Roach + 4">Max Roach + 4</a></i>. After Brown and Powell's deaths, Roach continued leading a similarly configured group, with <a href="/wiki/Kenny_Dorham" title="Kenny Dorham">Kenny Dorham</a> (and later <a href="/wiki/Booker_Little" title="Booker Little">Booker Little</a>) on trumpet, <a href="/wiki/George_Coleman" title="George Coleman">George Coleman</a> on tenor, and pianist <a href="/wiki/Ray_Bryant" title="Ray Bryant">Ray Bryant</a>. Roach expanded the standard form of hard bop using 3/4 <a href="/wiki/Waltz" title="Waltz">waltz</a> rhythms and modality in 1957 with his album <i><a href="/wiki/Jazz_in_3/4_Time" title="Jazz in 3/4 Time">Jazz in 3/4 Time</a></i>. During this period, Roach recorded a series of other albums for <a href="/wiki/EmArcy_Records" title="EmArcy Records">EmArcy Records</a> featuring the brothers <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Turrentine" title="Stanley Turrentine">Stanley</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tommy_Turrentine" title="Tommy Turrentine">Tommy Turrentine</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1955, he played drums for vocalist <a href="/wiki/Dinah_Washington" title="Dinah Washington">Dinah Washington</a> at several live appearances and recordings. He appeared with Washington at the <a href="/wiki/Newport_Jazz_Festival" title="Newport Jazz Festival">Newport Jazz Festival</a> in 1958, which was <a href="/wiki/Jazz_on_a_Summer%27s_Day" title="Jazz on a Summer's Day">filmed</a>, and at the 1954 live studio audience recording of <i><a href="/wiki/Dinah_Jams" title="Dinah Jams">Dinah Jams</a></i>, considered to be one of the best and most overlooked <a href="/wiki/Vocal_jazz" title="Vocal jazz">vocal jazz</a> albums of its genre.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1960s–1970s"><span id="1960s.E2.80.931970s"></span>1960s–1970s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Max_Roach&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 1960s–1970s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1960 he composed and recorded the album <i><a href="/wiki/We_Insist!" title="We Insist!">We Insist!</a></i> (subtitled <i>Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite)</i>, with vocals by his then-wife <a href="/wiki/Abbey_Lincoln" title="Abbey Lincoln">Abbey Lincoln</a> and lyrics by <a href="/wiki/Oscar_Brown_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Oscar Brown Jr.">Oscar Brown Jr.</a>, after being invited to contribute to commemorations of the hundredth anniversary of <a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Emancipation_Proclamation" title="Emancipation Proclamation">Emancipation Proclamation</a>. In 1962, he recorded the album <i><a href="/wiki/Money_Jungle" title="Money Jungle">Money Jungle</a></i>, a collaboration with Mingus and <a href="/wiki/Duke_Ellington" title="Duke Ellington">Duke Ellington</a>. This is generally regarded as one of the finest trio albums ever recorded.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the 1970s, Roach formed <a href="/wiki/M%27Boom" title="M'Boom">M'Boom</a>, a percussion orchestra. Each member composed for the ensemble and performed on multiple percussion instruments. Personnel included Fred King, <a href="/wiki/Joe_Chambers" title="Joe Chambers">Joe Chambers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Warren_Smith_(jazz_musician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Warren Smith (jazz musician)">Warren Smith</a>, <a href="/wiki/Freddie_Waits" title="Freddie Waits">Freddie Waits</a>, <a href="/wiki/Roy_Brooks" title="Roy Brooks">Roy Brooks</a>, Omar Clay, <a href="/wiki/Ray_Mantilla" title="Ray Mantilla">Ray Mantilla</a>, Francisco Mora, and Eli Fountain.<sup id="cite_ref-aaj_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-aaj-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Long involved in <a href="/wiki/Jazz_education" title="Jazz education">jazz education</a>, in 1972 Roach was recruited to the faculty of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Massachusetts_Amherst" title="University of Massachusetts Amherst">University of Massachusetts Amherst</a> by Chancellor <a href="/wiki/Randolph_Bromery" title="Randolph Bromery">Randolph Bromery</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-umassobit_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-umassobit-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He taught at the university until the mid-1990s.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1980s–1990s"><span id="1980s.E2.80.931990s"></span>1980s–1990s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Max_Roach&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 1980s–1990s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Max_Roach_Keystone_1979.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Max_Roach_Keystone_1979.jpg/320px-Max_Roach_Keystone_1979.jpg" decoding="async" width="320" height="213" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Max_Roach_Keystone_1979.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="468" data-file-height="311" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Keystone_Korner" title="Keystone Korner">Keystone Korner</a>, <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a>, 1979</figcaption></figure> <p>In the early 1980s, Roach began presenting solo concerts, demonstrating that multiple percussion instruments performed by one player could fulfill the demands of solo performance and be entirely satisfying to an audience. He created memorable compositions in these solo concerts, and a solo record was released by the Japanese jazz label Baystate. One of his solo concerts is available on a video, which also includes footage of a recording date for <i>Chattahoochee Red</i>, featuring his working quartet, <a href="/wiki/Odean_Pope" title="Odean Pope">Odean Pope</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cecil_Bridgewater" title="Cecil Bridgewater">Cecil Bridgewater</a>, and Calvin Hill. </p><p>Roach also embarked on a series of duet recordings. Departing from the style he was best known for, most of the music on these recordings is free improvisation, created with <a href="/wiki/Cecil_Taylor" title="Cecil Taylor">Cecil Taylor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Braxton" title="Anthony Braxton">Anthony Braxton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Archie_Shepp" title="Archie Shepp">Archie Shepp</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Abdullah_Ibrahim" title="Abdullah Ibrahim">Abdullah Ibrahim</a>. Roach created duets with other performers, including: a recorded duet with oration of the "<a href="/wiki/I_Have_a_Dream" title="I Have a Dream">I Have a Dream</a>" speech by <a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr." title="Martin Luther King Jr.">Martin Luther King Jr.</a>; a duet with <a href="/wiki/Video_artist" class="mw-redirect" title="Video artist">video artist</a> Kit Fitzgerald, who improvised video imagery while Roach created the music; a duet with his lifelong friend and associate Gillespie; and a duet concert recording with <a href="/wiki/Mal_Waldron" title="Mal Waldron">Mal Waldron</a>. </p><p>During the 1980s Roach also wrote music for theater, including plays by <a href="/wiki/Sam_Shepard" title="Sam Shepard">Sam Shepard</a>. He was composer and <a href="/wiki/Music_director" title="Music director">musical director</a> for a festival of Shepard plays, called "ShepardSets", at <a href="/wiki/La_MaMa_Experimental_Theatre_Club" title="La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club">La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club</a> in 1984. The festival included productions of <i>Back Bog Beast Bait</i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Angel_City_(play)" title="Angel City (play)">Angel City</a></i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/Suicide_in_B_Flat" class="mw-redirect" title="Suicide in B Flat">Suicide in B Flat</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1985, George Ferencz directed "Max Roach Live at La MaMa: A Multimedia Collaboration".<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Roach found new contexts for performance, creating unique musical ensembles. One of these groups was "The Double Quartet", featuring his regular performing quartet with the same personnel as above, except Tyrone Brown replaced Hill. This quartet joined "The Uptown String Quartet", led by his daughter Maxine Roach and featuring Diane Monroe, Lesa Terry, and <a href="/wiki/Eileen_Folson" title="Eileen Folson">Eileen Folson</a>. </p><p>Another ensemble was the "So What Brass Quintet", a group comprising five brass instrumentalists and Roach, with no <a href="/wiki/Chordal_instrument" class="mw-redirect" title="Chordal instrument">chordal instrument</a> and no bass player. Much of the performance consisted of drums and horn duets. The ensemble consisted of two trumpets, trombone, <a href="/wiki/French_horn" title="French horn">French horn</a>, and tuba. Personnel included <a href="/wiki/Cecil_Bridgewater" title="Cecil Bridgewater">Cecil Bridgewater</a>, Frank Gordon, <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Henderson_(musician)" title="Eddie Henderson (musician)">Eddie Henderson</a>, Rod McGaha, <a href="/wiki/Steve_Turre" title="Steve Turre">Steve Turre</a>, <a href="/wiki/Delfeayo_Marsalis" title="Delfeayo Marsalis">Delfeayo Marsalis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bob_Stewart_(musician)" title="Bob Stewart (musician)">Robert Stewart</a>, Tony Underwood, Marshall Sealy, Mark Taylor, and Dennis Jeter. </p><p>Not content to expand on the music he was already known for, Roach spent the 1980s and 1990s finding new forms of musical expression and performance. He performed a <a href="/wiki/Concerto" title="Concerto">concerto</a> with the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Symphony_Orchestra" title="Boston Symphony Orchestra">Boston Symphony Orchestra</a>. He wrote for and performed with the Walter White gospel choir and the John Motley Singers. He also performed with dance companies, including the <a href="/wiki/Alvin_Ailey_American_Dance_Theater" title="Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater">Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Dianne_McIntyre" title="Dianne McIntyre">Dianne McIntyre</a> Dance Company, and the <a href="/wiki/Bill_T._Jones/Arnie_Zane_Dance_Company" title="Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company">Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company</a>. He surprised his fans by performing in a <a href="/wiki/Hip_hop" class="mw-redirect" title="Hip hop">hip hop</a> concert featuring <a href="/wiki/Fab_Five_Freddy" title="Fab Five Freddy">Fab Five Freddy</a> and the New York Break Dancers. Roach expressed the insight that there was a strong kinship between the work of these young black artists and the art he had pursued all his life.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Though Roach played with many types of ensembles, he always continued to play jazz. He performed with the Beijing Trio, with pianist <a href="/wiki/Jon_Jang" title="Jon Jang">Jon Jang</a> and <a href="/wiki/Erhu" title="Erhu">erhu</a> player <a href="/wiki/Jiebing_Chen" title="Jiebing Chen">Jeibing Chen</a>. His final recording, <i>Friendship</i>, was with trumpeter <a href="/wiki/Clark_Terry" title="Clark Terry">Clark Terry</a>. The two were longtime friends and collaborators in duet and quartet. Roach's final performance was at the 50th anniversary celebration of the original <a href="/wiki/Massey_Hall" title="Massey Hall">Massey Hall</a> concert, with Roach performing solo on the <a href="/wiki/Hi-hat" title="Hi-hat">hi-hat</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1994, Roach appeared on <a href="/wiki/Rush_(band)" title="Rush (band)">Rush</a> drummer <a href="/wiki/Neil_Peart" title="Neil Peart">Neil Peart</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Burning_for_Buddy:_A_Tribute_to_the_Music_of_Buddy_Rich" title="Burning for Buddy: A Tribute to the Music of Buddy Rich">Burning for Buddy</a>,</i> performing "The Drum Also Waltzes" Parts 1 and 2 on <a href="/wiki/Burning_for_Buddy:_A_Tribute_to_the_Music_of_Buddy_Rich" title="Burning for Buddy: A Tribute to the Music of Buddy Rich">Volume 1</a> of the 2-volume <a href="/wiki/Tribute_album" class="mw-redirect" title="Tribute album">tribute album</a> during the 1994 All-Star recording sessions.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Death">Death</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Max_Roach&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Max_Roach_Grave_1024.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Max_Roach_Grave_1024.jpg/300px-Max_Roach_Grave_1024.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="224" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Max_Roach_Grave_1024.jpg/450px-Max_Roach_Grave_1024.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Max_Roach_Grave_1024.jpg/600px-Max_Roach_Grave_1024.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="766" /></a><figcaption>The grave of Max Roach</figcaption></figure><p> In the early 2000s, Roach became less active due to the onset of <a href="/wiki/Hydrocephalus" title="Hydrocephalus">hydrocephalus</a>-related complications. </p><p>Roach died of complications related to <a href="/wiki/Alzheimer%27s" class="mw-redirect" title="Alzheimer's">Alzheimer's</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dementia" title="Dementia">dementia</a> in Manhattan in the early morning of August 16, 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was survived by five children: sons Daryl and Raoul, and daughters Maxine, Ayo, and Dara. More than 1,900 people attended his funeral at <a href="/wiki/Riverside_Church" title="Riverside Church">Riverside Church</a> on August 24, 2007. He was interred at the <a href="/wiki/Woodlawn_Cemetery,_Bronx" class="mw-redirect" title="Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx">Woodlawn Cemetery</a> in <a href="/wiki/The_Bronx" title="The Bronx">The Bronx</a>. </p><p>In a funeral tribute to Roach, then-<a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_Governor_of_New_York" title="Lieutenant Governor of New York">Lieutenant Governor of New York</a> <a href="/wiki/David_Paterson" title="David Paterson">David Paterson</a> compared the musician's courage to that of <a href="/wiki/Paul_Robeson" title="Paul Robeson">Paul Robeson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Harriet_Tubman" title="Harriet Tubman">Harriet Tubman</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Malcolm_X" title="Malcolm X">Malcolm X</a>, saying that "No one ever wrote a bad thing about Max Roach's music or his aura until 1960, when he and Charlie Mingus protested the practices of the <a href="/wiki/Newport_Jazz_Festival" title="Newport Jazz Festival">Newport Jazz Festival</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-Democracy_Now-2008-03-13-Paterson:_Roach_Eulogy_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Democracy_Now-2008-03-13-Paterson:_Roach_Eulogy-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Max_Roach&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>His godson is artist, filmmaker and hip-hop pioneer, <a href="/wiki/Fab_Five_Freddy" title="Fab Five Freddy">Fab Five Freddy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From 1962 to 1970 Roach was married to singer <a href="/wiki/Abbey_Lincoln" title="Abbey Lincoln">Abbey Lincoln</a>. His daughter Maxine, a violist, appeared on several of Lincoln's albums. In February 1961, Roach and Lincoln, along with others, burst into a meeting of the United Nations Security Council to protest the murder of <a href="/wiki/Patrice_Lumumba" title="Patrice Lumumba">Patrice Lumumba</a>, prime minister of the newly independent Congo.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Roach identified himself as a <a href="/wiki/Muslim" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim">Muslim</a> in an early 1970s interview with <a href="/wiki/Art_Taylor" title="Art Taylor">Art Taylor</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Style">Style</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Max_Roach&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Style"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Roach started as a <a href="/wiki/Traditional_grip" class="mw-redirect" title="Traditional grip">traditional grip</a> player but favored <a href="/wiki/Matched_grip" class="mw-redirect" title="Matched grip">matched grip</a> as his career progressed.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Roach's most significant innovations came in the 1940s, when he and <a href="/wiki/Kenny_Clarke" title="Kenny Clarke">Kenny Clarke</a> devised a new concept of musical time. By playing the beat-by-beat pulse of standard 4/4 time on the <a href="/wiki/Ride_cymbal" title="Ride cymbal">ride cymbal</a> instead of on the thudding <a href="/wiki/Bass_drum" title="Bass drum">bass drum</a>, Roach and Clarke developed a flexible, flowing rhythmic pattern that allowed soloists to play freely. This also created space for the drummer to insert dramatic accents on the <a href="/wiki/Snare_drum" title="Snare drum">snare drum</a>, <a href="/wiki/Crash_cymbal" title="Crash cymbal">crash cymbal</a>, and other components of the trap set. </p><p>By matching his rhythmic attack with a tune's <a href="/wiki/Melody" title="Melody">melody</a>, Roach brought a newfound subtlety of expression to the drums. He often shifted the dynamic emphasis from one part of his <a href="/wiki/Drum_kit" title="Drum kit">drum kit</a> to another within a single phrase, creating a sense of tonal color and rhythmic surprise.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Roach said of the drummer's unique positioning, "In no other society do they have one person play with all four limbs."<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>While this is common today, when Clarke and Roach introduced the concept in the 1940s it was revolutionary. "When Max Roach's first records with Charlie Parker were released by Savoy in 1945", jazz historian Burt Korall wrote in the <i>Oxford Companion to Jazz</i>, "drummers experienced awe and puzzlement and even fear." One of those drummers, <a href="/wiki/Stan_Levey" title="Stan Levey">Stan Levey</a>, summed up Roach's importance: "I came to realize that, because of him, drumming no longer was just time, it was music."<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1966, with his album <i><a href="/wiki/Drums_Unlimited" title="Drums Unlimited">Drums Unlimited</a></i> (which includes several tracks that are entirely drum solos) he demonstrated that drums can be a solo instrument able to play theme, variations, and rhythmically cohesive phrases. Roach described his approach to music as "the creation of organized sound."<sup id="cite_ref-aaj_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-aaj-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Roach's style has been a big influence on several jazz and rock drummers, most notably <a href="/wiki/Joe_Morello" title="Joe Morello">Joe Morello</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Tony_Williams_(drummer)" title="Tony Williams (drummer)">Tony Williams</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Peter_Erskine" title="Peter Erskine">Peter Erskine</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Billy_Cobham" title="Billy Cobham">Billy Cobham</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Ginger_Baker" title="Ginger Baker">Ginger Baker</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Mitch_Mitchell" title="Mitch Mitchell">Mitch Mitchell</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The track "The Drum Also Waltzes" was often quoted by <a href="/wiki/John_Bonham" title="John Bonham">John Bonham</a> in his <i><a href="/wiki/Moby_Dick_(instrumental)" title="Moby Dick (instrumental)">Moby Dick</a></i> drum solo and revisited by other drummers, including <a href="/wiki/Neil_Peart" title="Neil Peart">Neil Peart</a> and <a href="/wiki/Steve_Smith_(musician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Steve Smith (musician)">Steve Smith</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Bill_Bruford" title="Bill Bruford">Bill Bruford</a> performed a cover of the track on the 1985 album <i><a href="/wiki/Flags_(Moraz_and_Bruford_album)" title="Flags (Moraz and Bruford album)">Flags</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Honors">Honors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Max_Roach&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Honors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Roach was given a <a href="/wiki/MacArthur_Fellows_Program" title="MacArthur Fellows Program">MacArthur Genius Grant</a> in 1988 and cited as a Commander of the <a href="/wiki/Ordre_des_Arts_et_des_Lettres" title="Ordre des Arts et des Lettres">Ordre des Arts et des Lettres</a> in France in 1989.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was twice awarded the French <a href="/wiki/Grand_Prix_du_Disque" class="mw-redirect" title="Grand Prix du Disque">Grand Prix du Disque</a>, was elected to the International Percussive Art Society's Hall of Fame and the <a href="/wiki/DownBeat" title="DownBeat">DownBeat</a> Hall of Fame, and was awarded Harvard Jazz Master. In 2008, he was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Grammy" class="mw-redirect" title="Grammy">Grammy</a> Lifetime Achievement Award by the <a href="/wiki/Recording_Academy" class="mw-redirect" title="Recording Academy">Recording Academy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was celebrated by <a href="/wiki/Aaron_Davis_Hall" title="Aaron Davis Hall">Aaron Davis Hall</a> and was given eight <a href="/wiki/Honorary_doctorate_degree" class="mw-redirect" title="Honorary doctorate degree">honorary doctorate degrees</a>, including degrees awarded by <a href="/wiki/Wesleyan_University" title="Wesleyan University">Wesleyan University</a>, <a href="/wiki/Medgar_Evers_College" title="Medgar Evers College">Medgar Evers College</a>, <a href="/wiki/CUNY" class="mw-redirect" title="CUNY">CUNY</a>, the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Bologna" title="University of Bologna">University of Bologna</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a>, in addition to his <a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">alma mater</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Manhattan_School_of_Music" title="Manhattan School of Music">Manhattan School of Music</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1986, the <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a> borough of <a href="/wiki/Lambeth" title="Lambeth">Lambeth</a> named <a href="/wiki/Max_Roach_Park" title="Max Roach Park">a park</a> in <a href="/wiki/Brixton" title="Brixton">Brixton</a> after Roach.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Roach was able to officially open the park when he visited London in March of that year by invitation from the <a href="/wiki/Greater_London_Council" title="Greater London Council">Greater London Council</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During that trip, he performed at a concert at the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Albert_Hall" title="Royal Albert Hall">Royal Albert Hall</a> along with <a href="/wiki/Ghana" title="Ghana">Ghanaian</a> master drummer <a href="/wiki/Ghanaba" class="mw-redirect" title="Ghanaba">Ghanaba</a> and others.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Roach spent his later years living at the Mill Basin Sunrise assisted living home in Brooklyn, and was honored with a proclamation honoring his musical achievements by Brooklyn <a href="/wiki/Borough_president" title="Borough president">borough president</a> <a href="/wiki/Marty_Markowitz" title="Marty Markowitz">Marty Markowitz</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Roach was inducted into the <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina_Music_Hall_of_Fame" title="North Carolina Music Hall of Fame">North Carolina Music Hall of Fame</a> in 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2023, Roach was the subject of a documentary feature film <i><a href="/wiki/Max_Roach:_The_Drum_Also_Waltzes" title="Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes">Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes</a></i>, which premiered at South by Southwest and was nationally broadcast on the PBS series American Masters.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Discography">Discography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Max_Roach&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Discography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="As_leader/co-leader"><span id="As_leader.2Fco-leader"></span>As leader/co-leader</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Max_Roach&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: As leader/co-leader"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1216972533">.mw-parser-output .col-begin{border-collapse:collapse;padding:0;color:inherit;width:100%;border:0;margin:0}.mw-parser-output .col-begin-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .col-break{vertical-align:top;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .col-break-2{width:50%}.mw-parser-output .col-break-3{width:33.3%}.mw-parser-output .col-break-4{width:25%}.mw-parser-output .col-break-5{width:20%}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .col-begin,.mw-parser-output .col-begin>tbody,.mw-parser-output .col-begin>tbody>tr,.mw-parser-output .col-begin>tbody>tr>td{display:block!important;width:100%!important}.mw-parser-output .col-break{padding-left:0!important}}</style><div> <table class="col-begin" role="presentation"> <tbody><tr> <td class="col-break col-break-2"> <ul><li>1953: <i><a href="/wiki/The_Max_Roach_Quartet_featuring_Hank_Mobley" title="The Max Roach Quartet featuring Hank Mobley">The Max Roach Quartet featuring Hank Mobley</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Debut_Records" title="Debut Records">Debut</a>, 1954)</li> <li>1956: <i><a href="/wiki/Max_Roach_%2B_4" title="Max Roach + 4">Max Roach + 4</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/EmArcy_Records" title="EmArcy Records">EmArcy</a>, 1956)</li> <li>1956-57: <i><a href="/wiki/Jazz_in_3/4_Time" title="Jazz in 3/4 Time">Jazz in 3/4 Time</a></i> (EmArcy, 1957)</li> <li>1957-58: <i><a href="/wiki/The_Max_Roach_4_Plays_Charlie_Parker" title="The Max Roach 4 Plays Charlie Parker">The Max Roach 4 Plays Charlie Parker</a></i> (EmArcy, 1959)</li> <li>1957-58: <i>Percussion Discussion</i> with <a href="/wiki/Art_Blakey" title="Art Blakey">Art Blakey</a> (Chess, 1976)[2LP]</li> <li>1958: <i><a href="/wiki/MAX_(album)" title="MAX (album)">MAX</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Argo_Records" title="Argo Records">Argo</a>, 1958)</li> <li>1958: <i><a href="/wiki/Max_Roach_%2B_4_on_the_Chicago_Scene" title="Max Roach + 4 on the Chicago Scene">Max Roach + 4 on the Chicago Scene</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Mercury_Records" title="Mercury Records">Mercury</a>, 1958)</li> <li>1958: <i><a href="/wiki/Max_Roach_%2B_4_at_Newport" title="Max Roach + 4 at Newport">Max Roach + 4 at Newport</a></i> (EmArcy, 1958) – live</li> <li>1958: <i><a href="/wiki/Max_Roach_with_the_Boston_Percussion_Ensemble" title="Max Roach with the Boston Percussion Ensemble">Max Roach with the Boston Percussion Ensemble</a></i> (EmArcy, 1958) – live</li> <li>1958: <i><a href="/wiki/Deeds,_Not_Words" title="Deeds, Not Words">Deeds, Not Words</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Riverside_Records" title="Riverside Records">Riverside</a>) – also released as <i>Conversation</i> (Jazzland, 1963)</li> <li>1958: <i><a href="/wiki/Award-Winning_Drummer" title="Award-Winning Drummer">Award-Winning Drummer</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Time_Records" title="Time Records">Time</a>, 1959) – also released as <i>Max Roach</i> (Time, 1962)</li> <li>1958: <i>Max Roach/Bud Shank – Sessions</i> with <a href="/wiki/Bud_Shank" title="Bud Shank">Bud Shank</a> (Calliope, 1976)</li> <li>1958: <i><a href="/wiki/Booker_Little_4_and_Max_Roach" title="Booker Little 4 and Max Roach">The Defiant Ones</a></i> with <a href="/wiki/Booker_Little" title="Booker Little">Booker Little</a> (United Artists, 1959)</li> <li>1959: <i><a href="/wiki/The_Many_Sides_of_Max" title="The Many Sides of Max">The Many Sides of Max</a></i> (Mercury, 1964)</li> <li>1959: <i><a href="/wiki/Rich_Versus_Roach" title="Rich Versus Roach">Rich Versus Roach</a></i> with <a href="/wiki/Buddy_Rich" title="Buddy Rich">Buddy Rich</a> (Mercury, 1959)</li> <li>1959: <i><a href="/wiki/Quiet_as_It%27s_Kept" title="Quiet as It's Kept">Quiet as It's Kept</a></i> (Mercury, 1960)</li> <li>1959: <i><a href="/wiki/Moon_Faced_and_Starry_Eyed" title="Moon Faced and Starry Eyed">Moon Faced and Starry Eyed</a></i> with <a href="/wiki/Abbey_Lincoln" title="Abbey Lincoln">Abbey Lincoln</a> (Mercury, 1959)</li> <li>1960: <i><a href="/wiki/Long_as_You%27re_Living" title="Long as You're Living">Long as You're Living</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Enja_Records" title="Enja Records">Enja</a>, 1984)</li> <li>1960: <i><a href="/wiki/Parisian_Sketches" title="Parisian Sketches">Parisian Sketches</a></i> (Mercury, 1960)</li> <li>1960: <i><a href="/wiki/We_Insist!" title="We Insist!">We Insist!</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Candid_Records" title="Candid Records">Candid</a>, 1960)</li> <li>1961: <i><a href="/wiki/Percussion_Bitter_Sweet" title="Percussion Bitter Sweet">Percussion Bitter Sweet</a></i> with <a href="/wiki/Mal_Waldron" title="Mal Waldron">Mal Waldron</a> (<a href="/wiki/Impulse!_Records" title="Impulse! Records">Impulse!</a>, 1961)</li> <li>1962: <i><a href="/wiki/It%27s_Time_(Max_Roach_album)" title="It's Time (Max Roach album)">It's Time</a></i> with Mal Waldron (Impulse!, 1962)</li> <li>1962: <i><a href="/wiki/Speak,_Brother,_Speak!" title="Speak, Brother, Speak!">Speak, Brother, Speak!</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Fantasy_Records" title="Fantasy Records">Fantasy</a>, 1963)</li> <li>1964: <i><a href="/wiki/The_Max_Roach_Trio_Featuring_the_Legendary_Hasaan" title="The Max Roach Trio Featuring the Legendary Hasaan">The Max Roach Trio Featuring the Legendary Hasaan</a></i> with <a href="/wiki/Hasaan_Ibn_Ali" title="Hasaan Ibn Ali">Hasaan Ibn Ali</a> (<a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Records" title="Atlantic Records">Atlantic</a>, 1965)</li> <li>1965–66: <i><a href="/wiki/Drums_Unlimited" title="Drums Unlimited">Drums Unlimited</a></i> (Atlantic, 1966)</li> <li>1968: <i><a href="/wiki/Members,_Don%27t_Git_Weary" title="Members, Don't Git Weary">Members, Don't Git Weary</a></i> (Atlantic, 1968)</li> <li>1971: <i><a href="/wiki/Lift_Every_Voice_and_Sing_(album)" title="Lift Every Voice and Sing (album)">Lift Every Voice and Sing</a></i> with the J.C. White Singers (Atlantic, 1971)</li> <li>1976: <i>Force</i> with <a href="/wiki/Archie_Shepp" title="Archie Shepp">Archie Shepp</a> (Uniteledis, 1976)[2LP]</li> <li>1976: <i>Nommo</i> (<a href="/wiki/Victor_Records" class="mw-redirect" title="Victor Records">Victor</a>, 1978)</li> <li>1977: <i>Live in Tokyo</i> Vol.1 & Vol.2 (<a href="/wiki/Denon_Records" title="Denon Records">Denon</a>, 1977) – live</li> <li>1977?: <i>The Loadstar</i> (Horo, 1977)[2LP]</li> <li>1977: <i> Live In Amsterdam</i> (<a href="/w/index.php?title=Baystate_Records&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Baystate Records (page does not exist)">Baystate</a>, 1979) – live</li> <li>1977: <i>Solos</i> (Baystate, 1978)</li> <li>1977: <i>Streams of Consciousness</i> with <a href="/wiki/Abdullah_Ibrahim" title="Abdullah Ibrahim">Dollar Brand</a> (Baystate, 1978)</li> <li>1978: <i>Confirmation</i> (<a href="/wiki/Fluid_Records" title="Fluid Records">Fluid</a>, 1978)</li> <li>1978: <i><a href="/wiki/Birth_and_Rebirth" title="Birth and Rebirth">Birth and Rebirth</a></i> with <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Braxton" title="Anthony Braxton">Anthony Braxton</a> (<a href="/wiki/Black_Saint_Records" class="mw-redirect" title="Black Saint Records">Black Saint</a>, 1978)</li> <li>1979: <i><a href="/wiki/The_Long_March_(album)" title="The Long March (album)">The Long March</a></i> with <a href="/wiki/Archie_Shepp" title="Archie Shepp">Archie Shepp</a> (<a href="/wiki/Hathut_Records" class="mw-redirect" title="Hathut Records">Hathut</a>, 1979) – live</li> <li>1979: <i><a href="/wiki/Historic_Concerts" title="Historic Concerts">Historic Concerts</a></i> with <a href="/wiki/Cecil_Taylor" title="Cecil Taylor">Cecil Taylor</a> (Black Saint, 1984) – live</li> <li>1979: <i><a href="/wiki/One_in_Two_%E2%80%93_Two_in_One" title="One in Two – Two in One">One in Two – Two in One</a></i> with <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Braxton" title="Anthony Braxton">Anthony Braxton</a> (Hathut, 1979) – live</li> <li>1979: <i><a href="/wiki/Pictures_in_a_Frame" title="Pictures in a Frame">Pictures in a Frame</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Soul_Note_Records" class="mw-redirect" title="Soul Note Records">Soul Note</a>9) – live</li> <li>1981?: <i>Chattahoochee Red</i> (<a href="/wiki/Columbia_Records" title="Columbia Records">Columbia</a>, 1981)</li> <li>1981: <i>Live at Blues Alley</i> (<a href="/wiki/MVD_Entertainment_Group" title="MVD Entertainment Group">MVD Visual</a>, 2011)[DVD-Video] – live</li> <li>1982: <i>Swish</i> with <a href="/wiki/Connie_Crothers" title="Connie Crothers">Connie Crothers</a> (<a href="/w/index.php?title=New_Artists_Records&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="New Artists Records (page does not exist)">New Artists</a>, 1982)</li> <li>1982: <i><a href="/wiki/In_the_Light_(Max_Roach_album)" title="In the Light (Max Roach album)">In the Light</a></i> (Soul Note, 1982)</li> <li>1983: <i><a href="/wiki/Live_at_Vielharmonie" title="Live at Vielharmonie">Live at Vielharmonie</a></i> (Soul Note, 1985) – live</li> <li>1984: <i><a href="/wiki/Scott_Free_(album)" title="Scott Free (album)">Scott Free</a></i> (Soul Note, 1985)</li> <li>1984: <i><a href="/wiki/It%27s_Christmas_Again" title="It's Christmas Again">It's Christmas Again</a></i> (Soul Note, 1987)</li> <li>1984: <i><a href="/wiki/Survivors_(Max_Roach_album)" title="Survivors (Max Roach album)">Survivors</a></i> (Soul Note, 1984)</li> <li>1985: <i><a href="/wiki/Easy_Winners_(album)" title="Easy Winners (album)">Easy Winners</a></i> (Soul Note, 1985)</li> <li>1986: <i><a href="/wiki/Bright_Moments_(Max_Roach_album)" title="Bright Moments (Max Roach album)">Bright Moments</a></i> (Soul Note, 1986)</li> <li>1989: <i><a href="/wiki/Max_%2B_Dizzy:_Paris_1989" title="Max + Dizzy: Paris 1989">Max + Dizzy: Paris 1989</a></i> with <a href="/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie" title="Dizzy Gillespie">Dizzy Gillespie</a> (<a href="/wiki/A%26M_Records" title="A&M Records">A&M</a>, 1990) – live</li> <li>1991: <i><a href="/wiki/To_the_Max!" title="To the Max!">To the Max!</a></i> (Enja, 1992)</li> <li>1993, 95: <i>With the New Orchestra of Boston and the So What Brass Quintet</i> (<a href="/wiki/Blue_Note_Records" title="Blue Note Records">Blue Note</a>, 1996)</li> <li>1999?: <i>Beijing Trio</i> with <a href="/wiki/Jon_Jang" title="Jon Jang">Jon Jang</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jiebing_Chen" title="Jiebing Chen">Jiebing Chen</a> (<a href="/w/index.php?title=Asian_Improv_Records&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Asian Improv Records (page does not exist)">Asian Improv</a>, 1999)</li> <li>2002?: <i>Friendship</i> with <a href="/wiki/Clark_Terry" title="Clark Terry">Clark Terry</a> (Columbia, 2002)</li></ul> </td> <td class="col-break col-break-2"> <p><b>Co-leader with <a href="/wiki/Clifford_Brown" title="Clifford Brown">Clifford Brown</a></b> <br /> (Originally The Max Roach All Stars featuring Clifford Brown, renamed after the death of Clifford Brown) </p> <ul><li>1954: <i><a href="/wiki/Best_Coast_Jazz" title="Best Coast Jazz">Best Coast Jazz</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/EmArcy_Records" title="EmArcy Records">EmArcy</a>, 1956)</li> <li>1954: <i><a href="/wiki/Clifford_Brown_All_Stars" title="Clifford Brown All Stars">Clifford Brown All Stars</a></i> ([EmArcy, 1956)</li> <li>1954: <i><a href="/wiki/Jam_Session_(album)" title="Jam Session (album)">Jam Session</a></i> with <a href="/wiki/Maynard_Ferguson" title="Maynard Ferguson">Maynard Ferguson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Clark_Terry" title="Clark Terry">Clark Terry</a> (EmArcy, 1954)</li> <li>1954: <i><a href="/wiki/Brown_and_Roach_Incorporated" title="Brown and Roach Incorporated">Brown and Roach Incorporated</a></i> (EmArcy, 1955)</li> <li>1954: <i><a href="/wiki/Daahoud" title="Daahoud">Daahoud</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Mainstream_Records" title="Mainstream Records">Mainstream Records</a>, 1973)</li> <li>1954 : <i><a href="/wiki/Clifford_Brown_%26_Max_Roach" title="Clifford Brown & Max Roach">Clifford Brown and Max Roach</a></i> (EmArcy, 1954)</li> <li>1954: <i>More Study in Brown</i> (EmArcy, 1983)</li> <li>1955: <i><a href="/wiki/Clifford_Brown_with_Strings" title="Clifford Brown with Strings">Clifford Brown with Strings</a></i> (EmArcy, 1955)</li> <li>1955: <i><a href="/wiki/Study_in_Brown" title="Study in Brown">Study in Brown</a></i> (EmArcy, 1955)</li> <li>1955: <i>Raw Genius - Live at Bee Hive Chicago 1955</i> Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 with Max Roach (Victor, 1977) – Japan only</li> <li>1955: <i>Live at The Bee Hive</i> (Columbia, 1979)[2LP] – the same recording source</li> <li>1956: <i><a href="/wiki/Clifford_Brown_and_Max_Roach_at_Basin_Street" title="Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street">Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street</a></i> (EmArcy, 1956)</li></ul> <p><b>Co-leader with <a href="/wiki/M%27Boom" title="M'Boom">M'Boom</a></b> </p> <ul><li>1973: <i><a href="/wiki/Re:_Percussion" title="Re: Percussion">Re: Percussion</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Strata-East_Records" title="Strata-East Records">Strata-East</a>, 1973)</li> <li>1979: <i><a href="/wiki/M%27Boom_(album)" title="M'Boom (album)">M'Boom</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Columbia_Records" title="Columbia Records">Columbia</a>, 1979)</li> <li>1984: <i><a href="/wiki/Collage_(M%27Boom_album)" title="Collage (M'Boom album)">Collage</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Soul_Note" class="mw-redirect" title="Soul Note">Soul Note</a>, 1984)</li> <li>1992: <i>Live at S.O.B.'s New York</i> (Blue Moon, 1992) – live</li></ul> <p>  </p> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> <p><b>Compilation</b> </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Alone_Together:_The_Best_of_the_Mercury_Years" title="Alone Together: The Best of the Mercury Years">Alone Together: The Best of the Mercury Years</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Verve_Records" title="Verve Records">Verve</a>, 1995) – rec. 1954–60</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="As_a_member">As a member</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Max_Roach&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: As a member"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>The Paris All-Stars</b> <br />(with <a href="/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie" title="Dizzy Gillespie">Dizzy Gillespie</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hank_Jones" title="Hank Jones">Hank Jones</a>, <a href="/wiki/Milt_Jackson" title="Milt Jackson">Milt Jackson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Percy_Heath" title="Percy Heath">Percy Heath</a> and <a href="/wiki/Stan_Getz" title="Stan Getz">Stan Getz</a>) </p> <ul><li><i>Homage to Charlie Parker</i> (A&M, 1990) – rec. 1989</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="As_sideman">As sideman</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Max_Roach&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: As sideman"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1216972533"><div> <table class="col-begin" role="presentation"> <tbody><tr> <td class="col-break col-break-2"> <p><b>With <a href="/wiki/Miles_Davis" title="Miles Davis">Miles Davis</a></b> </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Birth_of_the_Cool" title="Birth of the Cool">Birth of the Cool</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Capitol_Records" title="Capitol Records">Capitol</a>, 1949)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Conception_(album)" title="Conception (album)">Conception</a></i> (Prestige, 1951)</li></ul> <p><b>With <a href="/wiki/Duke_Ellington" title="Duke Ellington">Duke Ellington</a></b> </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Paris_Blues#Soundtrack" title="Paris Blues">Paris Blues</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/United_Artists_Records" title="United Artists Records">United Artists</a>, 1961)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Money_Jungle" title="Money Jungle">Money Jungle</a></i> (United Artists, 1962) also with <a href="/wiki/Charles_Mingus" title="Charles Mingus">Charles Mingus</a></li></ul> <p><b>With <a href="/wiki/Stan_Getz" title="Stan Getz">Stan Getz</a></b> </p> <ul><li><i>Opus De Bop</i> (Savoy, 1957) – Compilation rec. 1946-47</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Stan_Getz_and_the_Cool_Sounds" title="Stan Getz and the Cool Sounds">Stan Getz and the Cool Sounds</a></i> (Verve, 1957) – rec. 1953-55</li></ul> <p><b>With <a href="/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie" title="Dizzy Gillespie">Dizzy Gillespie</a></b> </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Diz_and_Getz" title="Diz and Getz">Diz and Getz</a></i> (Verve, 1953) – with <a href="/wiki/Stan_Getz" title="Stan Getz">Stan Getz</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Bop_Session" title="The Bop Session">The Bop Session</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Sonet_Records" title="Sonet Records">Sonet</a>, 1975) with <a href="/wiki/Sonny_Stitt" title="Sonny Stitt">Sonny Stitt</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Lewis_(pianist)" title="John Lewis (pianist)">John Lewis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hank_Jones" title="Hank Jones">Hank Jones</a> and <a href="/wiki/Percy_Heath" title="Percy Heath">Percy Heath</a></li></ul> <p><b>With <a href="/wiki/Coleman_Hawkins" title="Coleman Hawkins">Coleman Hawkins</a></b> </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Rainbow_Mist" title="Rainbow Mist">Rainbow Mist</a></i> (Delmark, 1992) – compilation of Apollo recordings in 1944</li> <li><i>Coleman Hawkins and His All Stars</i> (1944)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Body_and_Soul_(Coleman_Hawkins_album)" title="Body and Soul (Coleman Hawkins album)">Body and Soul</a></i> (1946)</li></ul> <p><b>With <a href="/wiki/J.J._Johnson" class="mw-redirect" title="J.J. Johnson">J.J. Johnson</a></b> </p> <ul><li><i>Mad Be Bop</i> (Savoy, 1978)[2LP] – rec. 1946-54</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/First_Place" title="First Place">First Place</a></i> (Columbia, 1957)</li></ul> <p><b>With <a href="/wiki/Abbey_Lincoln" title="Abbey Lincoln">Abbey Lincoln</a></b> </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/That%27s_Him!" title="That's Him!">That's Him!</a></i> (Riverside, 1957)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Straight_Ahead_(Abbey_Lincoln_album)" title="Straight Ahead (Abbey Lincoln album)">Straight Ahead</a></i> (Riverside, 1961)</li></ul> <p><b>With <a href="/wiki/Charles_Mingus" title="Charles Mingus">Charles Mingus</a></b> </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Mingus_at_the_Bohemia" title="Mingus at the Bohemia">Mingus at the Bohemia</a></i> (Debut, 1955); "Percussion Discussion" only</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Charles_Mingus_Quintet_%26_Max_Roach" title="The Charles Mingus Quintet & Max Roach">The Charles Mingus Quintet & Max Roach</a></i> (Debut, 1955)</li></ul> <p><b>With <a href="/wiki/Thelonious_Monk" title="Thelonious Monk">Thelonious Monk</a></b> </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Genius_of_Modern_Music:_Volume_2" class="mw-redirect" title="Genius of Modern Music: Volume 2">Genius of Modern Music: Volume 2</a></i> (Blue Note, 1952)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Brilliant_Corners" title="Brilliant Corners">Brilliant Corners</a></i> (Riverside, 1956)</li></ul> <p><b>With <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Parker" title="Charlie Parker">Charlie Parker</a></b> </p> <ul><li><i>Town Hall, New York, June 22, 1945</i> (1945) – also with <a href="/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie" title="Dizzy Gillespie">Dizzy Gillespie</a></li> <li><i>The Complete Savoy Studio Recordings</i> (1945–48)</li> <li><i>Lullaby in Rhythm</i> (1947)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Charlie_Parker%27s_Savoy_and_Dial_sessions" title="Charlie Parker's Savoy and Dial sessions">Charlie Parker's Savoy and Dial sessions</a></i>/<i><a href="/wiki/Complete_Charlie_Parker_on_Dial" title="Complete Charlie Parker on Dial">Complete Charlie Parker on Dial</a></i>/<i><a href="/wiki/Charlie_Parker_on_Dial" title="Charlie Parker on Dial">Charlie Parker on Dial</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Dial_Records_(1946)" title="Dial Records (1946)">Dial</a>, 1945–48)</li> <li><i>The Band that Never Was</i> (1948)</li> <li><i>Bird on 52nd Street</i> (1948)</li> <li><i>Bird at the Roost</i> (1948)</li> <li><i>Charlie Parker in France</i> (1949)</li> <li><i>Live at Rockland Palace</i> (1952)</li> <li><i>Yardbird: DC–53</i> (1953)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Big_Band_(Charlie_Parker_album)" title="Big Band (Charlie Parker album)">Big Band</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Clef_Records" title="Clef Records">Clef</a>, 1954)</li> <li><i>Charlie Parker Complete Sessions on Verve</i> (Verve, 2000) – compilation</li></ul> <p><b>With <a href="/wiki/Bud_Powell" title="Bud Powell">Bud Powell</a></b> </p> <ul><li><i>The Bud Powell Trip</i> (1947)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Amazing_Bud_Powell" title="The Amazing Bud Powell">The Amazing Bud Powell</a></i> (Blue Note, 1951)</li></ul> <p><b>With <a href="/wiki/Sonny_Rollins" title="Sonny Rollins">Sonny Rollins</a></b> </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Work_Time" title="Work Time">Work Time</a></i> (Prestige, 1955)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sonny_Rollins_Plus_4" title="Sonny Rollins Plus 4">Sonny Rollins Plus 4</a></i> (Prestige, 1956)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tour_de_Force_(Sonny_Rollins_album)" title="Tour de Force (Sonny Rollins album)">Tour de Force</a></i> (Prestige, 1956)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rollins_Plays_for_Bird" title="Rollins Plays for Bird">Rollins Plays for Bird</a></i> (Prestige, 1956)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Saxophone_Colossus" title="Saxophone Colossus">Saxophone Colossus</a></i> (Prestige, 1956)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Freedom_Suite_(Sonny_Rollins_album)" title="Freedom Suite (Sonny Rollins album)">Freedom Suite</a></i> (Riverside, 1958)</li> <li><i>Stuttgart 1963 Concert</i> (1963)</li></ul> </td> <td class="col-break col-break-2"> <p><b>With others</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chet_Baker" title="Chet Baker">Chet Baker</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Witch_Doctor_(Chet_Baker_album)" class="mw-redirect" title="Witch Doctor (Chet Baker album)">Witch Doctor</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Contemporary_Records" title="Contemporary Records">Contemporary</a>, 1985) – rec. 1953</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don_Byas" title="Don Byas">Don Byas</a>, <i>Savoy Jam Party</i> (Savoy, 1976)[2LP] – rec. 1944–46</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Cleveland" title="Jimmy Cleveland">Jimmy Cleveland</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Introducing_Jimmy_Cleveland_and_His_All_Stars" title="Introducing Jimmy Cleveland and His All Stars">Introducing Jimmy Cleveland and His All Stars</a></i> (EmArcy, 1955)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al_Cohn" title="Al Cohn">Al Cohn</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Al_Cohn%27s_Tones" title="Al Cohn's Tones">Al Cohn's Tones</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Savoy_Records" title="Savoy Records">Savoy</a>, 1956) – rec. 1953</li> <li>John Dennis, <i>New Piano Expressions</i> (Debut, 1957) – rec. 1955</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenny_Dorham" title="Kenny Dorham">Kenny Dorham</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Jazz_Contrasts" title="Jazz Contrasts">Jazz Contrasts</a></i> (Riverside, 1957)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Billy_Eckstine" title="Billy Eckstine">Billy Eckstine</a>, <i>The Metronome All Stars</i> (MGM, 1953)[10"]</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maynard_Ferguson" title="Maynard Ferguson">Maynard Ferguson</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Jam_Session_featuring_Maynard_Ferguson" title="Jam Session featuring Maynard Ferguson">Jam Session featuring Maynard Ferguson</a></i> (EmArcy, 1954)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benny_Golson" title="Benny Golson">Benny Golson</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Modern_Touch" title="The Modern Touch">The Modern Touch</a></i> (Riverside, 1957)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnny_Griffin" title="Johnny Griffin">Johnny Griffin</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Introducing_Johnny_Griffin" title="Introducing Johnny Griffin">Introducing Johnny Griffin</a></i> (Blue Note, 1956)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slide_Hampton" title="Slide Hampton">Slide Hampton</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Drum_Suite_(Slide_Hampton_album)" title="Drum Suite (Slide Hampton album)">Drum Suite</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Epic_Records" title="Epic Records">Epic</a>, 1962)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Holiday_(musician)" title="Joe Holiday (musician)">Joe Holiday</a>, <i>Mambo Jazz</i> (Original Jazz Classics, 1991) – rec. 1951-54</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thad_Jones" title="Thad Jones">Thad Jones</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Magnificent_Thad_Jones" title="The Magnificent Thad Jones">The Magnificent Thad Jones</a></i> (Blue Note, 1956)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Booker_Little" title="Booker Little">Booker Little</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Out_Front_(Booker_Little_album)" title="Out Front (Booker Little album)">Out Front</a></i> (Candid, 1961)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Howard_McGhee" title="Howard McGhee">Howard McGhee</a>, <i>Howard McGhee All Stars</i> (Blue Note, 1952)[10"]</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gil_Mell%C3%A9" title="Gil Mellé">Gil Mellé</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Complete_Blue_Note_Fifties_Sessions" title="The Complete Blue Note Fifties Sessions">Gil Mellé Quintet/Sextet</a></i> (Blue Note, 1953)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbie_Nichols" title="Herbie Nichols">Herbie Nichols</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Herbie_Nichols_Trio" title="Herbie Nichols Trio">Herbie Nichols Trio</a></i> (Blue Note, 1955)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oscar_Pettiford" title="Oscar Pettiford">Oscar Pettiford</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Oscar_Pettiford_Sextet" title="Oscar Pettiford Sextet">Oscar Pettiford Sextet</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Vogue_Records" title="Vogue Records">Vogue</a>, 1954)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Russell_(composer)" title="George Russell (composer)">George Russell</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/New_York,_N.Y._(album)" title="New York, N.Y. (album)">New York, N.Y.</a></i> (1959)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._K._Salim" title="A. K. Salim">A. K. Salim</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Pretty_for_the_People" title="Pretty for the People">Pretty for the People</a></i> (Savoy, 1957)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hazel_Scott" title="Hazel Scott">Hazel Scott</a>, <i>Relaxed Piano Moods</i> (1955)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sonny_Stitt" title="Sonny Stitt">Sonny Stitt</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Sonny_Stitt/Bud_Powell/J._J._Johnson" title="Sonny Stitt/Bud Powell/J. J. Johnson">Sonny Stitt/Bud Powell/J. J. Johnson</a></i> (Prestige, 1956)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stanley_Turrentine" title="Stanley Turrentine">Stanley Turrentine</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Stan_%22The_Man%22_Turrentine" title="Stan "The Man" Turrentine">Stan "The Man" Turrentine</a></i> (Time, 1963) – rec. 1960</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tommy_Turrentine" title="Tommy Turrentine">Tommy Turrentine</a>, <i>Tommy Turrentine</i> (1960)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Wallington" title="George Wallington">George Wallington</a>, <i>The George Wallington Trip and Septet</i> (1951)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dinah_Washington" title="Dinah Washington">Dinah Washington</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Dinah_Jams" title="Dinah Jams">Dinah Jams</a></i> (EmArcy, 1954)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Randy_Weston" title="Randy Weston">Randy Weston</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Uhuru_Afrika" title="Uhuru Afrika">Uhuru Afrika</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Roulette_Records" title="Roulette Records">Roulette</a>, 1960)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Wilder" title="Joe Wilder">Joe Wilder</a>, <i>The Music of George Gershwin: I Sing of Thee</i> (1956)</li></ul> <p>  </p> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Max_Roach&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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</ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Max_Roach&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://nancyrawlinson.com/3arch.htm">MADISON magazine: "Max Roach and James Woods"</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070929122706/http://nancyrawlinson.com/3arch.htm">Archived</a> September 29, 2007, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-autogenerated1-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-autogenerated1_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-autogenerated1_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-autogenerated1_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em 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href="/wiki/Max_Roach_%2B_4" title="Max Roach + 4">Max Roach + 4</a></i> (1956)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jazz_in_3/4_Time" title="Jazz in 3/4 Time">Jazz in 3/4 Time</a></i> (1956–57)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Max_Roach_4_Plays_Charlie_Parker" title="The Max Roach 4 Plays Charlie Parker">The Max Roach 4 Plays Charlie Parker</a></i> (1957–58)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Award-Winning_Drummer" title="Award-Winning Drummer">Award-Winning Drummer</a></i> (1958)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Booker_Little_4_and_Max_Roach" title="Booker Little 4 and Max Roach">Booker Little 4 and Max Roach</a></i> (1958)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/MAX_(album)" title="MAX (album)">MAX</a></i> (1958)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Max_Roach_%2B_4_on_the_Chicago_Scene" title="Max Roach + 4 on the Chicago Scene">Max Roach + 4 on the Chicago Scene</a></i> (1958)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Max_Roach_%2B_4_at_Newport" title="Max Roach + 4 at Newport">Max Roach + 4 at Newport</a></i> (1958)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Max_Roach_with_the_Boston_Percussion_Ensemble" title="Max Roach with the Boston Percussion Ensemble">Max Roach with the Boston Percussion Ensemble</a></i> (1958)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Deeds,_Not_Words" title="Deeds, Not Words">Deeds, Not Words</a></i> (1958)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Moon_Faced_and_Starry_Eyed" title="Moon Faced and Starry Eyed">Moon Faced and Starry Eyed</a></i> (with <a href="/wiki/Abbey_Lincoln" title="Abbey Lincoln">Abbey Lincoln</a>, 1959)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Quiet_as_It%27s_Kept" title="Quiet as It's Kept">Quiet as It's Kept</a></i> (1959)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rich_Versus_Roach" title="Rich Versus Roach">Rich Versus Roach</a></i> (and <a href="/wiki/Buddy_Rich" title="Buddy Rich">Buddy Rich</a>, 1959)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Many_Sides_of_Max" title="The Many Sides of Max">The Many Sides of Max</a></i> (1959)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Long_as_You%27re_Living" title="Long as You're Living">Long as You're Living</a></i> (1960)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Parisian_Sketches" title="Parisian Sketches">Parisian Sketches</a></i> (1960)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/We_Insist!" title="We Insist!">We Insist!</a></i> (1960)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Percussion_Bitter_Sweet" title="Percussion Bitter Sweet">Percussion Bitter Sweet</a></i> (1961)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/It%27s_Time_(Max_Roach_album)" title="It's Time (Max Roach album)">It's Time</a></i> (1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Money_Jungle" title="Money Jungle">Money Jungle</a></i> (and <a href="/wiki/Duke_Ellington" title="Duke Ellington">Duke Ellington</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Mingus" title="Charles Mingus">Charles Mingus</a>, 1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Speak,_Brother,_Speak!" title="Speak, Brother, Speak!">Speak, Brother, Speak!</a></i> (1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Max_Roach_Trio_Featuring_the_Legendary_Hasaan" title="The Max Roach Trio Featuring the Legendary Hasaan">The Max Roach Trio Featuring the Legendary Hasaan</a></i> (and <a href="/wiki/Hasaan_Ibn_Ali" title="Hasaan Ibn Ali">Hasaan Ibn Ali</a>, 1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Drums_Unlimited" title="Drums Unlimited">Drums Unlimited</a></i> (1965)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Members,_Don%27t_Git_Weary" title="Members, Don't Git Weary">Members, Don't Git Weary</a></i> (1968)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lift_Every_Voice_and_Sing_(album)" title="Lift Every Voice and Sing (album)">Lift Every Voice and Sing</a></i> (1971)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Re:_Percussion" title="Re: Percussion">Re: Percussion</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/M%27Boom" title="M'Boom">M'Boom</a>, <a href="/wiki/Strata-East_Records" title="Strata-East Records">Strata-East</a>, 1973)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Birth_and_Rebirth" title="Birth and Rebirth">Birth and Rebirth</a></i> (and <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Braxton" title="Anthony Braxton">Anthony Braxton</a>, 1978)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Historic_Concerts" title="Historic Concerts">Historic Concerts</a></i> (and <a href="/wiki/Cecil_Taylor" title="Cecil Taylor">Cecil Taylor</a>, 1979)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/M%27Boom_(album)" title="M'Boom (album)">M'Boom</a></i> (1979)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/One_in_Two_%E2%80%93_Two_in_One" title="One in Two – Two in One">One in Two – Two in One</a></i> (and <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Braxton" title="Anthony Braxton">Anthony Braxton</a>, 1979)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pictures_in_a_Frame" title="Pictures in a Frame">Pictures in a Frame</a></i> (1979)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Long_March_(album)" title="The Long March (album)">The Long March</a></i> (and <a href="/wiki/Archie_Shepp" title="Archie Shepp">Archie Shepp</a>, 1979)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/In_the_Light_(Max_Roach_album)" title="In the Light (Max Roach album)">In the Light</a></i> (1982)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Live_at_Vielharmonie" title="Live at Vielharmonie">Live at Vielharmonie</a></i> (1983)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Collage_(M%27Boom_album)" title="Collage (M'Boom album)">Collage</a></i> (M'Boom, 1984)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/It%27s_Christmas_Again" title="It's Christmas Again">It's Christmas Again</a></i> (1984)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Scott_Free_(album)" title="Scott Free (album)">Scott Free</a></i> (1984)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Survivors_(Max_Roach_album)" title="Survivors (Max Roach album)">Survivors</a></i> (1984)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Easy_Winners_(album)" title="Easy Winners (album)">Easy Winners</a></i> (1985)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bright_Moments_(Max_Roach_album)" title="Bright Moments (Max Roach album)">Bright Moments</a></i> (1986)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Max_%2B_Dizzy:_Paris_1989" title="Max + Dizzy: Paris 1989">Max + Dizzy: Paris 1989</a></i> (and <a href="/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie" title="Dizzy Gillespie">Dizzy Gillespie</a>, 1989)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/To_the_Max!" title="To the Max!">To the Max!</a></i> (1990–91)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">With <a href="/wiki/Clifford_Brown" title="Clifford Brown">Clifford Brown</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Best_Coast_Jazz" title="Best Coast Jazz">Best Coast Jazz</a></i> (1954)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Brown_and_Roach_Incorporated" title="Brown and Roach Incorporated">Brown and Roach Incorporated</a></i> (1954)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Clifford_Brown_All_Stars" title="Clifford Brown All Stars">Clifford Brown All Stars</a></i> (1954)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Clifford_Brown_%26_Max_Roach" title="Clifford Brown & Max Roach">Clifford Brown & Max Roach</a></i> (1954–55)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Daahoud" title="Daahoud">Daahoud</a></i> (1954)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jam_Session_(album)" title="Jam Session (album)">Jam Session</a></i> (and <a href="/wiki/Clark_Terry" title="Clark Terry">Clark Terry</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maynard_Ferguson" title="Maynard Ferguson">Maynard Ferguson</a>, 1954)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Clifford_Brown_with_Strings" title="Clifford Brown with Strings">Clifford Brown with Strings</a></i> (1955)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Study_in_Brown" title="Study in Brown">Study in Brown</a></i> (1955)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Clifford_Brown_and_Max_Roach_at_Basin_Street" title="Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street">Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street</a></i> (1956)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Compilations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Alone_Together:_The_Best_of_the_Mercury_Years" title="Alone Together: The Best of the Mercury Years">Alone Together: The Best of the Mercury Years</a></i> (1954–60)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related articles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list 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