Max Roach
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Drum Battle: Max Roach, Art Blakey, and Elvin Jones
Filmed sometime in the 1960s, and in the tradition started with Jazz at the Philharmonic back in the 1940s, the three premier artists of their time bash it out. Continue reading
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Video: Randy Weston and Max Roach – ' Well You Needn't'
Two grand masters, pianist Randy Weston and percussionist Max Roach were filmed in San Sebastian in 1999 playing a classic Monk tune. Continue reading
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Video: Happy Birthday Max Roach 'Live at Blues Alley'
Maxwell Lemuel Roach was born on January 10, 1924 in the Township of Newland, North Carolina and moved to Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn when he was four years old. Max began playing bugle at a young age and was playing drums with gospel groups by the time he was ten years old. Continue reading
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Abbey Lincoln: “Throw it away”
The amazing and totally under-rated Abbey Lincoln (and wife of drummer Max Roach) on a later version (2007) of ‘Throw it Away’. Continue reading
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Happy Birthday Miles – ‘So What’ with John Coltrane
Miles Dewey Davis III was born on May 26, 1926 in Alton, Illinois. Miles’ mother was a blues pianist though she kept this hidden from him and his father a dentist. Davis began studying trumpet at the age of thirteen with local musician Elwood Buchanan and Buchanan would always stress to Miles to play without… Continue reading
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