Who did Max Roach inspire with his astoundingly innovative drumming and exceptional musical eloquence? It might be easier to ask who he didn’t inspire, given the enormous, genre-leaping impact of ...

As a young teen, becoming aware of and falling in love with the Black American Music called jazz, Max Roach was one of the names that would always come up. When I heard Tony Williams on an album, I ...

If you know people who play drums, want to play drums, or want to play drums better, “Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes” could effect a turning point in their lives. Watching its subject play the title ...

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.

Decades in the making, Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes celebrates the groundbreaking jazz drummer’s career. Co-directed by Samuel Pollard and Ben Shapiro, they pooled their separate early efforts to ...

Director Sam Pollard was captivated by the life story of drummer and activist Max Roach 35 years ago. “Seeing Max Roach sit behind a drum set, he had a regal quality about him,” said Pollard. “And I ...

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Anyone who enjoyed the recent Wayne Shorter documentary Zero Gravity might also dig this—a more conventionally structured but equally fascinating look at the life of Max Roach. Filmmaker and ...

Max Roach, the pioneering jazz drummer and bebop innovator, died this week at age 83. Roach was considered the greatest drummer of all time by his peers. He played with Duke Ellington, Thelonius Monk ...

Max Roach, one of the greatest jazz drummers of all time, will be honored Juneteenth when a streetcorner in Brooklyn is named after him. The corner of Greene and Marcy Aves. in Bedford-Stuyvesant will ...

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.