Max Roach Memorial Show On May 24, 1987, ... Onstage, things doubled up with the Uptown String Quartet, featuring Roach's daughter Maxine, Clark Terry's nieces Lesa and Zela, ...

Remembering Max Roach, Rhythmic Innovator Drummer Max Roach died August 16th, ... The group often collaborated with his daughter Maxine s Uptown String Quartet to form the Max Roach Double Quartet.

Over 10 years after his passing, the Afro-Am department hosted a multi-day event in celebration of Roach. At the panel titled, “The Life and Legacy of Max Roach,” a slew of artists, including his ...

Max Roach, 83, a dazzling drummer ... In the 1980s and '90s, Mr. Roach often performed with a string quartet that included his daughter Maxine on viola.

Max Roach was born in New Land, N.C., on Jan. 10, 1924. His family moved four years later to a Brooklyn apartment, where a player piano left by the previous tenants gave Roach his musical ...

Max Roach, the master percussionist whose rhythmic innovations and improvisations defined bebop jazz during a wide-ranging career where he collaborated with artists from Duke Ellington to rapper ...

Max Roach, Jazz Drummer, Dies at 83. This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but will ...

Bedford Stuyvesant celebrated Juneteenth with a street co-naming ceremony on the corner of Greene and Marcy avenues for Max Roach, one of the most influential jazz drummers and composers of all time..

Roach, who died in 2007, would have been 100 this year. He was born on Jan. 10, 1924. According to a Facebook post by his son, Raoul Roach , the renaming ceremony is one of several events ...