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 ...

Max doesn't play fundamental drumbeats behind you just to keep the time going, he's making musical statements at all times. Max Roach was the hottest drummer in New York by the time he was 20 years ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The fan-fueled beat is growing louder for the renaming of a Bedford-Stuyvesant street to honor legendary jazz drummer Max Roach. Nearly 3,000 supporters of the adventurous bebop percussionist already ...

Director Sam Pollard was captivated by the life story of drummer and activist Max Roach. Director Sam Pollard was captivated by the life story of drummer and activist Max Roach 35 years ago. "Seeing ...

Max Roach, the visionary drummer, composer, and bandleader who was one of the most important musicians in the history of jazz and American music, died in his sleep yesterday morning in Manhattan ...