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Max Roach Memorial - video & mp3s
2007-09-03 00:00:00 Max Roach died over a week ago at age 83 from alzheimer's disease, and Amy Goodman at Democracy Now! devoted an entire segment to his memory and memorial at the Riverside Church here in New York City. It's not to...
Charlie Parker festival (with tributes to Max Roach)
2007-08-26 00:00:00 Max Roach was buried yesterday, and this weekend is host to the Charlie Parker festival here in New York City (Saturday in Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem and Sunday in Thompkins Square Park in the East Village). "Charlie Parker became...
Max Roach
2007-08-22 06:45:00 Now you know a jazz lover like me took note of Max Roach's death the other day. I meant to write something immediately, but I've been trying to figure out how to post an audio clip of his playing and haven't been able to figure out how to do it. I'll keep trying. For me, the saddest part of his NYT obit stated: Mr. Roach’s death closes a chapter in American musical history. He was the last
R.I.P. Max Roach (1924-2007)
2007-08-19 21:42:00 "Max Roach treads that fine line between anticipation and reaction which distinguishes the true accompanist. His playing on this track is a wonderful example of how to interact without being obtrusive, at the same time commenting on virtually every phrase that floats by. Each component of the drum set can be brought to the forefront to accentuate any of Roach?s sophisticated patterns. Moreover, there is the pure joy in swinging and pacing the solos that is unique to his playing at this time".- from Loren Schoenberg?s liner notes to Savoy Records? The Genius of Charlie Parker.
By: Theory NOW
R.I.P. Max Roach (1924-2007)
2007-08-19 21:42:00 "Max Roach treads that fine line between anticipation and reaction which distinguishes the true accompanist. His playing on this track is a wonderful example of how to interact without being obtrusive, at the same time commenting on virtually every phrase that floats by. Each component of the drum set can be brought to the forefront to accentuate any of Roach?s sophisticated patterns. Moreover, there is the pure joy in swinging and pacing the solos that is unique to his playing at this time".- from Loren Schoenberg?s liner notes to Savoy Records? The Genius of Charlie Parker.
By: Theory NOW
Max Roach: R.I.P.
2007-08-19 00:00:00 Max Roach died yesterday at age 83 after suffering from dementia for the past few years. It truly is an end of an era, and the obit in the NY Times captures that history: Mr. Roach's death closes a chapter...
Max Roach to Jay-Z ... Bebop to Hip-hop
2007-08-17 17:49:00 Love it or hate it, it's hard to miss the dotted line in African American history that's taken the music world from bebop to hip-hop. Draw your own conclusion, but the life transition yesterday of jazz drum master Max Roach coinciding with Forbes giving Jay-Z the crown among hip-hop cash kings says something mighty powerful...New York Times on Max Roach's life and achievementsMP3.com covers Forbes story about cash kings Jay-Z, 50 Cent, Diddy, Timbaland, & Dr. Dre"Tell My... Horse," 2006 post at ViqiFrenchFever about hip-hop, 50 Cent and the messagesTechnorati links:jazzmax roachhip-hophaitijay-zafrica
By: South Side Star
RIP Max Roach [Dispatches from the Culture Wars]
2007-08-17 11:23:00 The jazz world lost one of its most legendary masters, drummer Max Roach. If there is a pantheon, a Mt. Rushmore of jazz, Roach is surely in it. He debuted at 16 years old with Duke Ellington’s band; by the age of 18, he was on the way to being the rhythmic force behind every major innovation in jazz for decades to come. In the 40s and early 50s, he powered the be bop movement with his unique polyrhythms and syncopations. In the 50s and 60s, he was the man behind Miles Davis and cool bop. Then it was Clifford Brown and hard bop. After that, it was free jazz. He was the drummer on the legendary Massey Hall performance by The Quintet, made up of Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Bud Powell and Dizzy Gillespie (a CD I’m listening to as I write this) - now that’s an all-star lineup. He was also a major civil rights leader, recording We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite on the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Max Roach was a true giant, an irr...
Master jazz drummer Max Roach dead at 83
(AP)
2007-08-17 10:51:00 AP - NEW YORK (AP) — Max Roach got his first musical break at age 16, filling in when Duke Ellington's drummer fell ill in 1940. Those three nights spawned a career that would make the self-taught Roach the first jazz musician ever honored with a MacArthur Fellowship, or "genius grant."
R.I.P. Max Roach
2007-08-17 07:18:00 Legendary jazz drummer, Max Roach passed away at the age of 83 yesterday. In a world where drummers remain relatively anonymous Roach was a star. Considered by his peers the greatest jazz drummer, he was the first drummer to head his own group. He was also the first drummer to perform his own solo concert proving that multi-percussion instrument, in the hands of such a great master, could fulfill the demands of solo performance and be entirely satisfying to an audience.As New York Times writer Peter Keepnews remarked "Mr. Roach?s death closes a chapter in American musical history. He was the last surviving member of a small circle of adventurous musicians ? among them Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and a handful of others ? whose innovations brought about wholesale changes in jazz during World War II and immediately afterward."MP3: Max Roach with Eric Dolphy "Garvey's Ghost"
R.I.P. Max Roach - The Greatest Drummer of All Time
2007-08-17 03:17:00 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } MaxRoach, originally uploaded by levari. It seems every day another trailblazer of the power that was 20th Century art is leaving us behind. For those who are curious - and perhaps have never heard it - Max Roach's "Garvey's Ghost" is an incomparable and unsurpassed drum solo in the history of music. You can find it on the "Red Hot on Impulse" album available for download on I-Tunes. I was fortunate enough to also see Roach play once while I was in school in Massachusetts and his power and daring, even in his seventies, was awing. Roach is not very heralded now by pop culture standards, but without him there would be no Funk, R and B and Hip Hop as we know it today. Dare I say John Bonham and others would not have been the drummers they were without him either. Roach was a giant step, fearless, opening...
By: The Night Book
Max Roach the Jazz Musician dies aged 83
2007-08-16 21:53:00 Jazz Musician Max Roach has died at the age of 83, Roach was one of the best jazz drummers of both rhythmic language and modern jazz. Max had been ill for the past few years, but sadly past away in New York. Max Roach was married and divorced a total of three times; his survivors are ...
By: Product Reviews
Max Roach - Percussion Bitter Sweet
2006-12-09 10:39:01 ‘Percussion Bitter Sweet’ is one of drummer/composer Max Roach’s great musical-cultural statements, featuring wife Abbey Lincoln’s powerful vocals on the tumultuous “Garvey’s Ghost” (with its powerful Afro-Cuban percussive airs), and the prickly, straight shooting protest of “Mendacity.” Roach’s musical dream team band features several innovative players, such as the legendary reedman Eric Dolphy and the [...] |
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