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Discography
Force - Sweet Mao - Suid Afrika 761976
Tracklist not collected yet.
Lift Every Voice and Sing1971
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Members, Don’t Git Weary1968
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Drums Unlimited1966
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Money Jungle1962
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We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite1961
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Percussion Bitter Sweet1961
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Award Winning Drummer1960
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Sonny Clark Trio1960
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Booker Little 4 & Max Roach1959
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Quiet as It's Kept1959
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Rich Versus Roach1959
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Deeds, Not Words1958
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Max Roach + 4 on the Chicago Scene1958
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Drummin’ the Blues1957
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Jazz in ¾ Time1957
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Pretty for the People1957
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Max Roach + 41956
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Rollins Plays for Bird1956
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Jam Session1954
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Bird - Diz - Bud - Max1953
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New Sounds1952
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And the Angels Swing / Symphony Sid's Idea1947
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Money Maker - Quit and Go Traveling2015
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Clifford Brown "All Stars" - Max Roach "Best Coast Jazz"2015
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Label
- Record label
- Capitol Records
- Record label
- Candid Records
- Record label
- EmArcy Records
Achievements
- Award
- MacArthur Fellows Program
- Award
- Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
- Award
- Paul Acket Award
- Award
- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
- Award
- NEA Jazz Masters
Groups
- Charlie Parker Quartetcurrent
- Don Lanphere Quintetcurrent
- Fats Navarro Quintetcurrent
- M'Boomcurrent
- Max Roach Plus Fourcurrent
- Max Roach Sexteteponymouscurrent
- Miles Davis All Starscurrent
- Miles Davis Quartetcurrent
- The Clifford Brown–Max Roach Quintetadditional, eponymous, membranophonecurrent
- The Riverside Jazz Starscurrent
- The Clifford Brown–Max Roach Quintetdrums (drum set), eponymous · 1954–1956
- Clifford Brown All Stars1954–1954
- Bud Powell Trio
- Charlie Parker Quintetoriginal
- Charlie Parker Sextet
- Charlie Parker’s Ree Boppers
- Jazz Artists Guild
- Kenny Dorham Quintet
- Max Roach Double Quarteteponymous, original
- Max Roach Quartetdrums (drum set), eponymous, original
- Max Roach Quintetdrums (drum set), eponymous, original
- Max Roach Triodrums (drum set), eponymous, original
- Max Roach, His Chorus and Orchestradrums (drum set), eponymous, original
- Metronome All Starsdrums (drum set)
- The Miles Davis Nonetdrums (drum set)
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Identifiers & aliases
Also known as: Maxwell Lemuel Roach
American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer (1924–2007)
Maxwell Lemuel Roach 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.
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