Max Roach
Max Roach (1924-2007) was an American jazz drummer, composer and bandleader, born in North Carolina and active in New York from the bebop years on. With Kenny Clarke he helped move the time-keeping of jazz drumming onto the ride cymbal, and he played on many of Charlie Parker's key recordings. He is also known for We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite, recorded for Candid in 1960 and sung by Abbey Lincoln. In 1952 Roach founded Debut Records with Charles Mingus, the label that issued Jazz at Massey Hall from a 1953 concert.
Introducing Johnny Griffin (LP)
1983 Japanese re-issue on Blue Note's "BLP 1500 Series" of the 1957 album featuring Max Roach and Wynton Kelly. With original sticker.
Jazz At Massey Hall (LP)
1970's Japanese re-issue on Fantasy on the 1956 live album.
Relaxed Piano Moods
1985 Italian re-issue on Debut / Black Saint's "Mythic Cound" series in an edition of 1000 hand-numbered copies of the 1955 album featuring Charles Mingus and Max Roach.
On Dial Volume 4 (LP)
1976 Japanese edition on Stateside/Spotlite's "Jazz Right Now" series of the 1970 compilation with recordings from 1947 featuring Miles Davis and Max Roach. With insert.
Francis Paudras Legacy / Cecilia Powell's Heritage series voll. 1 to 10 (10LP bundle)
All 10 volumes released in 1989 on Black Saint / Mythic Sound's "Francis Paudras Legacy / Cecilia Powell's Heritage" series dedicated to Powell's recordings from 1944 to 1964 featuring Charles Mingus, Max Roach, Lee Konitz, Jay Jay Johnson, Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie, Barney Wilen, Zoot Sims and Johnny Griffin among many others.
Study In Brown (LP)
1971 Japanese re-issue on Mercury's "Clifford Brown Collection" series of the 1955 album. With insert and obi.
At Basin Street (LP)
1983 Japanese re-issue on EmArcy's "We Remember Clifford Original Collection" series of the 1956 album featuring Sonny Rollins. With insert and obi.
Worktime! (LP)
1972 US re-issue on Prestige's "Jazz Classics Series" of the 1956 album featuring 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 tragedy struck in 1956 - enters the studio with something to say. Something that cannot wait. Something that demands a new language.
The year before, Roach had recorded We Insist! Freedom Now Suite for Candid Records, a searing response to the Civil Right…
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 different moments and aspects of the African American history and culture. Here is a wonderful cast of musicians reunited around Max Roach – drums and Abbey Lincoln – vocals. Throughout the album you can find great contributions from the likes of Bo…
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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 eye and ear for talent. And he always, always kept pushing himself and his bandmates to find new modes of musical expression throughout his six-decade career. Speaking of modes, this 1968 release on the Atlantic label is one of his finest albums, a m…
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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 Expressions is the singular, visionary statement from John Dennis, the Philadelphia pianist once hailed as the “Fat Genius” by his peers. Recorded in 1955 for Debut Records - the pioneering label founded by Charles Mingus and Max Roach - this album stands…
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 extended forms that give equal weight to composed and improvised sections, together these „alter the present“ and „direct the past“." – Chris May
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 Ellington, Charlie Parker, Stan Getz and more! A seminal set, stretching out towards the directions Max would explore fully on the Candid, Impulse, and Fantasy labels in the 60s. Group members include Booker Little on trumpet, George Coleman on tenor, Ray Dr…
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 / Anthony Braxton. This recording was the first to document their collaboration. All of the tracks are improvisations and it appears that the younger Braxton was the one taking the lead. If he keeps himself a bit restrained, steering clear of the ext…
Brown And Roach Incorporated
Recorded at Capitol Studios in Los Angeles in August 1954, this is the first Emarcy recording of the legendary Brown & Roach Quintet featuring the great Harold Land on tenor sax, Richie Powell on piano and George Morrow on bass. Under the direction of two modern Jazz masters such as trumpeter Clifford Brown and drummer Max Roach the quintet shines through a fine set of classic standards, including "Stompin' at the Savoy", Cole Porter's "I Get a Kick out of You" and a couple of Brown-Roach origin…