Born
10 January 1924 (102)
Place of Birth
Newland, North Carolina, USA
Also known as
Maxwell Lemuel Roach
Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz drummer and composer. A pioneer of bebop, he worked in many other styles of music, and is generally considered one of the most important drummers in history. He worked with many famous jazz musicians, including Clifford Brown, Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Abbey Lincoln, Dinah Washington, Charles Mingus, Billy Eckstine, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Eric Do...
Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz drummer and composer. A pioneer of bebop, he worked in many other styles of music, and is generally considered one of the most important drummers in history. He worked with many famous jazz musicians, including Clifford Brown, Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Abbey Lincoln, Dinah Washington, Charles Mingus, Billy Eckstine, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Eric Dolphy, Benny Carter, and Booker Little. He also played with his daughter Maxine Roach, a Grammy-nominated violist. He was inducted into the DownBeat Hall of Fame in 1980 and the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1992. In the mid-1950s, Roach co-led a pioneering quintet along with trumpeter Clifford Brown. In 1970, Roach founded the percussion ensemble M'Boom. Description above from the Wikipedia article Max Roach, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
2024
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
2023
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021
Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell
2021
Max Roach - Full Concert - 08/16/92 - Newport Jazz Festival
2014
Umbria Jazz Story
1993
Åke Hasselgård story
1983
Dizzy's Dream Band
1982
Max Roach: Live at Blues Alley
1981
Jazz on a Summer's Day
1960
Max Roach Double Quartet Stuttgart 1990