Max Roach

INTERVIEW/PROFILE: Interview: Sheila Jordan (Part 3) 01/06/2012

PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola January 2012 Lineup 12/21/2011

Paul Motian obituary 11/24/2011

CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Julian Priester and Aaron Alexander Put It Together on Duo Disk "Conversational Music" 09/12/2011

FESTIVAL/CRUISE: 2nd Annual Dizzy's Coca-Cola Generations in Jazz Festival Lineup 08/15/2011

In a profession star-crossed by early deaths -- especially the bebop division -- Max Roach was long a shining survivor, one of the last giants from the birth of bebop. He and Kenny Clarke instigated a revolution in jazz drumming that persisted for decades; instead of the swing approach of spelling out the pulse with the bass drum, Roach shifted the emphasis to the ride cymbal. The result was a ...more