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Max Roach
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Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz drummer and composer. A pioneer of bebop, he worked in many other styles of music, and is generally considered one of the most important drummers in history. He worked with many famous jazz musicians, including Clifford Brown, Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Abbey Lincoln, Dinah Washington, Charles Mingus, Billy Eckstine, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Eric Dolphy, Benny Carter, and Booker Little. He also played with his daughter Maxine Roach, a Grammy-nominated violist. He was inducted into the DownBeat Hall of Fame in 1980 and the Modern Drummer Hall of …
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Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz drummer and composer. A pioneer of bebop, he worked in many other styles of music, and is generally considered one of the most important drummers in history. He worked with many famous jazz musicians, including Clifford Brown, Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Abbey Lincoln, Dinah Washington, Charles Mingus, Billy Eckstine, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Eric Dolphy, Benny Carter, and Booker Little. He also played with his daughter Maxine Roach, a Grammy-nominated violist. He was inducted into the DownBeat Hall of Fame in 1980 and the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1992. In the mid-1950s, Roach co-led a pioneering quintet along with trumpeter Clifford Brown. In 1970, Roach founded the percussion ensemble M'Boom. Description above from the Wikipedia article Max Roach, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
as Self (archive footage)
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
as Self (archival footage)
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
as Self (archive footage)
Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell
as Self - Jazz Musician (archive footage)
Max Roach - Full Concert - 08/16/92 - Newport Jazz Festival
as Themself
No Poster
Umbria Jazz Story
as himself
Åke Hasselgård story
No Poster
Dizzy's Dream Band
as Self
Max Roach: Live at Blues Alley
as Self
Jazz on a Summer's Day
as Self
No Poster
Max Roach Double Quartet Stuttgart 1990
as Self