Roach on the Record: The Beat Goes On. August 17, 2007. Some recommended albums by Max Roach: "Max Roach and Clifford Brown," Vols. 1 and 2, and "Daahoud" (all 1954).

WASHINGTON (AP) — Music and records from one of the creators of modern jazz drumming, Max Roach, will be preserved at the Library of Congress... Adam Howard Jan 27, 2014 ...

I literally bumped into Max Roach at the Tower Records store near Lincoln Center in the early 1980s. We were both deep in browsing mode when we collided; I looked up and immediately recognized him.

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 ...

Slowly, Roach pieced together his quintet again with Sonny Rollins, George Morrow and newcomer Donald Byrd joined him. Byrd's work with the group appears only on a 1956 Sonny Rollins recording, ...

Max Roach, a leader of the modern jazz revolution of the 1940s whose innovative approach to drumming forever changed the way the instrument was played and perceived, died Thursday.

In 1952, Roach and bassist-composer Charles Mingus founded Debut Records. Among the short-lived label’s releases was a famed 1953 Toronto performance at Massey Hall, featuring Roach, Mingus ...

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 ...

In the process of recording "We Insist 2025!," her tribute to drummer Max Roach, Carrington reflected on how issues of inequality and racism Roach fought against in 1961 are just as prevalent today.

Max Roach, the dazzling drummer who helped create the rhythmic language of modern jazz while expanding the expressive possibilities of the drums, died Thursday in a New York hospital. He was 83 ...