Max RoachFeaturing: Sonny Rollins
Jazz in 3/4 Time
LabelEmArcy, MercuryGenreJazz & Improvisation
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1957: Max Roach devotes an entire album to the waltz, years before 3/4 became a jazz commonplace - conceptual daring plus world-class blowing, which was always the Roach formula. Sonny Rollins and Kenny Dorham handle the front line, and hearing Rollins stretch across waltz time in 1957 is its own education: the phrasing relaxed, the ideas endless, the meter treated as invitation rather than obstacle. Roach approached the drums as a composer and the bandstand as a laboratory, and this record is one of his most elegant experiments - rigorous in premise, joyful in execution. EmArcy edition of a genuinely important date.
Release notes
Recorded March 18-20 in New York except The Most Beautiful Girl in The World recorded September 17-20, 1956 in New York. All but B3 previously Issued On Mercury MG36108 Manufactured and Marketed by Polygram Records, Inc. 810 Seventh Ave., New York, NY 10019
| A1 | Blues Waltz | 6:29 | |
| A2 | Valse Hot | 14:15 | |
| B1 | I'll Take Romance | 4:31 | |
| B2 | Little Folks | 5:35 | |
| B3 | Lover | 5:32 | |
| B4 | The Most Beautiful Girl in The World | 7:08 |
- George Morrow
- Bass
- Max Roach
- Drums
- Max Roach Quintet
- Ensemble
- P.A.
- Lacquer Cut By
- Ray Bryant
- Piano (B4)
- Bill Wallace
- Piano (A1 to B3)
- Bob Shad
- Producer
- Sonny Rollins
- Tenor Saxophone
- Kenny Dorham
- Trumpet
