Max Roach

United States
January 10, 1924 – August 16, 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 alongside the most important drummers in history. He worked with many famous jazz musicians, including 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, and Booker Little. He was inducted into the DownBeat Hall of Fame in 1980 and the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1992.

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Max Roach top songs

1	Daahoud
2	Stardust
3	Joy Spring
4	Max Roach Speaks - Dizzy Gillespie Introduces Charlie Parker to New York
5	Stompin' At the Savoy
6	Freedom Day
7	Never Leave Me
8	I Concentrate on You
9	Sunday Afternoon
10	Embraceable You
11	For Dancers Only
12	For Big Sid
13	Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
14	Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
15	Toot Toot Tootsie (Goodbye)
16	Limehouse Blues
17	Mwalimu
18	Namely You
19	Spoken Introduction By Max Roach
20	Equipoise
21	Variations on the Scene
22	Members, Don't Git Weary
23	These Foolish Things
24	I Get a Kick Out of You
25	Spoken Introduction By Max Roach