The Place of the Drum Solo in Jazz - JazzTimesTop players discuss the place of the drum solo in jazz and name some of their favorites including Max Roach, Art Blakey, Tony Williams and more.
Max RoachToday is the birthday of the great be bop jazz drummer Max Roach (1924-2007). I always get real peeved when I hear people who don’t know what they’re talking about say that drums are an…
Entertainment | Jazz drummer Max Roach dies at 83Legendary jazz drummer Max Roach, best known for creating the fast-paced bebop style, dies.
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Vintage Black Glamour by Nichelle Gainer: PhotoMax Roach, the iconic jazz drummer & composer, on... - Vintage Black Glamour by Nichelle Gainer
Booker Little: 1938-1961© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved. “Some artists are simply in a hurry. It is probably pointless to mourn the waste and loss. With Booker Little, though, a scant 23 years really does seem like short change. More than Fats Navarro, more even than Clifford Brown, who put his stamp on the young man's bright, resonant sound and staunch-less flow of ideas. What occasionally sounds like hesitancy, even inaccuracy in the harmonic language is probably something more…
Lamont RoachMax Roach and Duke Ellington, Money Jungle session, September 17th 1962, Sound Makers Studios, NYC.