Soundtrack to a Coup d'État

Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell

70 Years of Youth Revolt

Max Roach - Full Concert - 08/16/92 - Newport Jazz Festival

Umbria Jazz Story

Behind the Scenes

The Cosby Show

Åke Hasselgård story

Dizzy's Dream Band

Max Roach: Live at Blues Alley

Great Performances

Jazz on a Summer's Day

Max Roach Double Quartet Stuttgart 1990

Death of a Prophet

Black Sun

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, 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, he founded the percussion ensemble M'Boom.



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