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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis celebrates Max Roach centennial — album review
Max Roach’s unerring sense of time, dynamic interplay and melodic invention gave drum virtuosity another dimension. His 1940s recordings accompanying Charlie Parker laid down a template for modern jazz drumming. Keep reading »
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New Album Celebrates Centennial Of Jazz Musician Max Roach
Blue Engine Records, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s in-house label, has just released The Music of Max Roach, a live album that celebrates the centennial of Max Roach, the legendary drummer-composer, bebop pioneer and activist. Keep reading »
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Blue Engine Records releases “The Music of Max Roach”
Blue Engine Records, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s in-house label, is thrilled to announce the release of The Music of Max Roach, a live album celebrating the centennial of the legendary drummer-composer, bebop pioneer, and activist Max Roach (1924-2007). Keep reading »
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Max Roach at 100: ‘Inventor of Modern Drumming’ Is Only the Beginning
Over the course of a little more than a year in 1955 and ’56, Max Roach, who was already the premiere jazz drummer of his generation, experienced the death of two of his very closest musical partners. Keep reading »
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Max Roach Centennial Celebration Tour Honors Legendary Drummer-Composer, Bebop Pioneer, and Civil Rights Activist
To commemorate the centennial of the legendary musician drummer-composer, bebop pioneer, and activist Max Roach (1924-2007), the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis premieres new arrangements of works by the iconic artist at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York, NY Keep reading »