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Apr 4, 2024 · Max Roach (born January 10, 1924, Newland, North Carolina, U.S.—died August 16, 2007, New York, New York) was an American jazz drummer and composer, one of the most influential and widely recorded modern percussionists. Roach grew up in New York City, and, as a child, he played drums in gospel bands
Sep 6, 2023 · 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Max Roach. The drummer helped pioneer bebop in the 1940s and delivered a message of resistance and liberation from the 1960s on. Listen to 13 selections from...
Aug 16, 2007 · NEW YORK — Max Roach, the master percussionist whose rhythmic innovations and improvisations defined bebop jazz during a wide-ranging career where he collaborated with artists from Duke...
Max Roach. DRUMMER Jan 10, 1924 - Aug 17, 2007. Max Roach is a bebop pioneer and virtuoso composer whose far-reaching ambitions were inspired and challenged by the inequities of the society...
Mar 11, 2023 · last updated March 11, 2023. Drums. An early pioneer of bebop, jazz drummer Max Roach along with his frequent collaborators – like Charles Mingus, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk and Coleman Hawkins – helped birth the sound of modern jazz. In this article, we explore the life and career of the great drummer.
Aug 16, 2007 · Aug. 16, 2007. Max Roach, a founder of modern jazz who rewrote the rules of drumming in the 1940’s and spent the rest of his career breaking musical barriers and defying listeners’...
Aug 17, 2007 · Drummer Max Roach died on August 16, 2007 in New York after a long illness. He was 83. A primary architect of the bebop revolution, Roach was one of the most innovative and influential...
