Max Roach
Brilliance (2LP)
1975 2LP US compilation on Milestone with tracks from the 1950's albums Brilliant Corners and Five By Monk By Five plus a previously unissued track, featuring Max Roach and Sonny Rollins. With original innersleeve.
Jazz in 3/4 Time
Late 1980's US re-issue on EmArcy/Mercury of the 1956 album featuring Sonny Rollins.
Max (LP)
1983 Japanese re-issue on Baybridge Records of the 1958 album featuring Ramsey Lewis. With insert and obi.
The Max Roach 4 Plays Charlie Parker (LP)
1973 US re-issue on Mercury of the 1958 album.
Freedom Now Suite (LP)
1980 US re-issue on Columbia's "Contemporary Masters Series" with different title and cover of the 1961 album featuring Coleman Hawkins and Julian Priester.
In Concert (LP)
1976 Japanese re-issue on GNP Crescendo's "Jazz Library 1500" series of the 1956 album. With insert and obi.
In Concert (LP)
1992 Japanese re-issue on GNP of the 1956 album. With insert and obi.
In Concert Complete Version (LP)
1984 Japan-only edition on GNP Crescendo with the uncut long versions of the tracks of the 1956 album. With insert.
Force (2LP)
Original 1977 Japanese edition with different cover of the 1976 double-album. With insert and obi.
Percussion Bitter Sweet
August 1961. Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Max Roach - the man who reinvented jazz drumming alongside Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie in the 1940s, the co-leader with Clifford Brown of the definitive hard bop quintet until trage…
We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite
One of the major statements in the history of Jazz and African American liberation movements. Originally released in 1960 on Candid Records, Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite consists of five original compositions and performances staging and celebrating…
Members, Don’t Git Weary
Max Roach wasn't just one of the greatest drummers and percussionists in jazz history; he was also one of the greatest bandleaders in all of jazz, able to adapt his playing to an innumerable array of styles, from bop to free, and blessed with a keen …
New Piano Expressions
** Rare original copies. Original 1987 LP pressing on Mythic Sounds, numbered edition. Unplayed copies from a dead-stock, minor wear due to ageing on covers. Comes with original hype sticker ** A lost gem of modern jazz piano returns: New Piano Expre…
Out Front To And Friends „Revisited"
"The material on From Out Front To Booker Little And Friend Revisited is Little’s collective chef d’oeuvre. It is exploratory but also strewn with retentions from tradition. The dense yet sonorous dissonance, the graceful tempo and metre shifts, the …
Deeds, Not Words
A pioneer of bebop, Max Roach went on to work on many other styles of music and is generally considered alongside the most important drummers in history having worked with such musicians as Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Duke Ellingto…
Birth And Rebirth (LP + CD)
"The music in this album is a result of our belief in a continuum that links the present with the past. Our spontaneous improvisations are true to those well defined principles basic to African American culture. Thank you for listening." - Max Roach …