Max Roach - The Complete Max Roach 1958 - 1962 '2013

Tracks list

Tracklist:

Disc 1
1. You Stepped Out Of A Dream (07:49)
2. Filide (07:09)
3. It's You Or No One (04:15)
4. Jadie's Cha-Cha (04:59)
5. Deeds, Not Words (04:37)
6. Larry-Larue (05:15)
7. Conversation (03:51)
8. Tuba De Nod (04:00)
9. Milano (05:13)
10. Variations On The Scene (05:41)
11. Pies Of Quincy (03:29)
12. Old Folks (04:20)
13. Sadiga (06:35)
14. Gandolfo's Bounce (05:43)

Disc 2 
1. Quiet As It's Kept (06:10)
2. To Lady (06:07)
3. Lotus Blossom (05:33)
4. As Long As You're Living (05:55)
5. The More I See You (04:03)
6. Juliano (05:40)
7. You're Mine You (02:45)
8. Come Rain Or Come Shine (03:18)
9. Wild is the Wind (03:17)
10. Speak Low (02:50)
11. Concentrate On You (04:45)
12. Moon-Faced And Starry-Eyed (02:53)
13. Never Let Me Go (03:04)
14. Namely You (02:47)
15. Never Leave Me (06:42)
16. Sing, Sing, Sing (With A Swing) (04:08)
17. Figure Eights (04:31)
18. Big Foot (05:00)

Disc 3
1. Parisian Sketches (17:13)
2. Nica (04:48)
3. Petit Dejeuner (04:06)
4. Un Nouveau Complet (03:25)
5. Liberte (06:25)
6. Driva' Man (05:15)
7. Freedom Day (06:06)
8. Triptych (08:05)
9. All Africa (08:03)
10. Tears For Johannesburg (09:42)

Disc 4 
1. Garvey's Ghost (06:40)
2. Mama (04:49)
3. Tender Warriors (06:52)
4. Praise For A Martyr (07:09)
5. Mendacity (08:51)
6. Man From South Africa (05:08)
7. It's Time (06:33)
8. Another Valley (08:38)
9. Sunday Afternoon (06:09)
10. Living Room (07:27)
11. The Profit (07:28)
12. Lonesome Lover (07:00)


 moreRoach was born in rural North Carolina in 1924. His mother sang gospel.
His family moved to the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York in
1928. Roach began his musical vocation as a child playing bugle in parades. He
started playing drums at seven, and at ten, he was playing drums in gospel
bands. He started playing jazz in earnest while in high school. In 1942, as an
18-year-old graduate, he received a call to fill in for Sonny Greer with the
Duke Ellington Orchestra at the Paramount Theater in Manhattan. He starting
hanging out and sitting in at the jazz clubs on 52nd Street, and at 78th Street
& Broadway. His first professional recording took place in December 1943,
backing saxophonist Coleman Hawkins. While serving as house drummer at Minton's
Playhouse, he fell in with saxophonist Charlie Parker, trumpeter Dizzy
Gillespie, and others at the famed locale. He was a frequent participant in
after-hours jam sessions. Roach played brief stints with Benny Carter and Duke
Ellington's band, then joined Gillespie's quintet in 1943 and served in
Parker-led bands in 1945, and from 1947 to 1949. Roach traveled to Paris with
Parker in 1949 and recorded there with him and others including Kenny Dorham. He
also played with Louis Jordan, Red Allen, and Hawkins. He participated in Miles
Davis' historic Birth of the Cool sessions in 1949.

Roach enrolled in a classical percussion degree course at the Manhattan School
of Music in 1950. He picked up with Parker again in 1951, and remained with him
until he left school in 1953. During that tenure he served as drummer in "the
quintet," and played at the historic Jazz at Massey Hall concert in Toronto with
Charles Mingus, Bud Powell, Dizzy Gillespie, and Bird. These concerts marked the
final time that the latter two would play together. During the early 1950s,
Roach also toured with the Jazz at the Philharmonic revue, and recorded with
Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars, replacing Shelly Manne. During the
mid-'50s, he was a sideman with Sonny Rollins for several years and co-led the
Max Roach/Clifford Brown orchestra, with Powell's brother Richie on piano and
saxophonists Harold Land and later, Rollins. Roach's frenetic, yet precise
drumming laid the foundation for Brown's amazing trumpet solos. This group made
landmark records during its short tenure, among them Clifford Brown & Max Roach
(1954), Study in Brown and Brown and Roach Incorporated (1955), and At Basin
Street (1956). Brown and Powell were tragically killed in a car crash on the way
to a gig in Chicago in 1956. A devastated Roach tried to keep the group alive
with Dorham and Rollins, and later with trumpeter Booker Little and saxophonist
George Coleman. He became involved in a record label partnership with Charles
Mingus, forming Debut Records in the mid-'50s. The label issued Jazz at Massey
Hall in 1958 and Percussion Discussion (considered an avant-garde release at the
time). Roach also appeared with Dorham, pianist Ramsey Lewis, saxophonist Hank
Mobley, and bassist George Morrow. Later, he led another influential band, this
time with Little, Coleman, tuba player Ray Draper, and bassist Art Davis. They
cut seminal dates for Riverside and Emarcy, among them Deeds Not Words.

After playing with pianist Randy Weston on Uhuru Afrika, Roach, a deeply
committed Civil Rights activist, composed and recorded We Insist! Freedom Now
Suite in 1960. A multi-faceted work, it featured vocals by his then-wife Abbey
Lincoln and lyrics by Oscar Brown, Jr. It vehemently confronted racial injustice
in America, and its influence endures in the 21st century. In 1962, he recorded
Money Jungle, a collaborative album with Mingus and Ellington. It is regarded as
one of the finest trio albums ever put to tape. Roach and his various bands
recorded and toured frequently. He released the collaborative Much Max with
Stanley Turrentine in 1964 and the now-classic Drums Unlimited in 1966. In 1968
Roach and the Turrentine Brothers released Let's Groove for Time Records.

In 1970, Roach formed his long-lived percussion ensemble M'Boom. Its original
members included Roy Brooks, Warren Smith, Joe Chambers, Omar Clay, Ray
Mantilla, and Freddie Waits. The following year, he led a sextet that included
saxophonist Billy Harper, trumpeterCecil Bridgewater, pianist George Cables,
electric bassist Eddie Mathias, and percussionist Ralph MacDonald. This group
collaborated with gospel singers J.C. and Dorothy White, Ruby McClure, and a
22-voice choir to record the enduring jazz/gospel fusion outing Lift Every Voice
and Sing for Atlantic. The six-track set offered sometimes radical
rearrangements of gospel standards arranged by William Bell, Lincoln, and
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson.

Re:Percussion, the debut album by M'Boom, was released by Strata East in 1973
and reissued by Japan's Baystate the following year. Roach continued recording
prolifically for various labels. In 1976, he cut the oft-reissued Force - Sweet
Mao - Suid Afrika 76 in a duo with saxophonist Archie Shepp, and a year later
released The Loadstar for Italy's Horo label, leading a quartet with Harper,
Bridgewater, and bassist Reggie Workman. He cut the duo offering Streams of
Consciousness with pianist Abdullah Ibrahim in 1977. The drummer's quartet --
with bassist Calvin Hill in place of Workman -- issued Confirmation in 1978, the
same year Roach and Anthony Braxton released the duo offering Birth and ReBirth
for Black Saint.

In 1980, Columbia released M'Boom. Recorded the previous year, this eponymously
titled offering is regarded by critics and historians alike as foundational in
the evolution of jazz and world music as it wove together strands from jazz,
salsa, African and European traditions. That same year, the drummer's quartet
released Pictures in a Frame for Soul Note, and Roach and Shepp recorded and
released the double-live duo album The Long March on Switzerland's Hat Hut
label, recorded at their concert at the Willisau Jazz Festival. During the same
festival, Roach and Braxton played and recorded a duo concert, releasing it as
One in Two-Two in One in 1980. In 1981, the Roach quartet, with
saxophonist/flutist Odean Pope replacing Harper, issued the charting
Chattahoochee Red for Columbia. The following year that group released the
historic In the Light, and the drummer issued Swish, a duo with pianist Connie
Crothers. In 1984, a December 1979 duo concert between Cecil Taylor and Roach
was released as Historic Concerts on Soul Note. That same year, the drummer
released Long as You're Living, his Enja debut, with a new quintet including
trombonist Julian Priester, Stanley and Tommy Turrentine, and bassist Bobby
Boswell, as well as the quartet recordings Scott Free, It's Christmas Again, and
Survivors. 1984 also saw the release of Collage, the third album from M'Boom.
During that decade, Roach performed with many ensembles, including a group of
break dancers and rapper Fab 5 Freddy in what may be the first fusion of jazz
and hip-hop.

In 1985 he released Live at Vielharmonie Munich featuring the Swedenborg String
Quartet; it was billed to the Max Roach Double Quartet. He followed it that year
with Easy Winners in collaboration with the Uptown String Quartet that included
his daughter, Maxine Roach, on viola. The string group's name morphed into the
Max Roach Double Quartet for 1986's Bright Moments. On June 15, 1989 at La
Grande Hale, in La Villette, Paris, Roach took part in the Paris All Stars:
Homage to Charlie Parker concert alongside saxophonists Jackie McLean, Phil
Woods, and Stan Getz, Gillespie, pianist Hank Jones, bassist Percy Heath and
vibraphonist Milt Jackson. The set was released by A&M in 1990 alongside a duo
recording with Gillespie simply titled Paris 1989. The year also saw the
Manhattan School of Music award Roach -- who had begun teaching full time at
University of Massachusetts, Amherst -- an honorary doctorate. He also released
Drum Conversation, his first solo percussion album. In 1992, M'Boom issued their
final offering, Live at S.O.B.'s for the Blue Moon label.

In 1994, he appeared on Rush drummer Neil Peart's Burning for Buddy, performing
"The Drum Also Waltzes" Pt. 1 and Pt. 2 on the first of the two-volume tribute
set. Roach spent most of his time teaching, but still performed and discovered
new directions in jazz. In 1998, he released Beijing Trio, a collaborative date
on the Asian Improv label with pianist Jon Jang and famed erhu player Jiebing
Chen. The following year, Explorations ... To the Mth Degree, a duo performance
with Mal Waldron from the latter's 1995 70th birthday concert, was released by
Slam Productions. In 2002, Roach teamed with longtime friend and trumpeter Clark
Terry to release Friendship with bassist Marcus McLaurine and pianist Don
Friedman for Columbia. It was the drummer's final album. He became less active
due to several forms of illness. Roach died in New York of complications related
to Alzheimer's in August 2007. © Thom Jurek



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