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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Au cours des 14 derniers jours:

78 musiques
69 stations
22 pays

Top chansons des Max Roach

1	Daahoud
2	Joy Spring
3	Stardust
4	Stompin' At the Savoy
5	Valse Hot
6	Limehouse Blues
7	Never Leave Me
8	I Concentrate on You
9	Spoken Introduction By Max Roach
10	Embraceable You
11	Sunday Afternoon
12	Members, Don't Git Weary
13	Max Roach Speaks - Dizzy Gillespie Introduces Charlie Parker to New York
14	These Foolish Things
15	Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
16	Freedom Day
17	Crackle Hut
18	Driva' Man
19	For Big Sid
20	Blues for a Hip King
21	Lover
22	Conversation
23	Magic and Music
24	Abstrutions
25	Cherokee

Citations de Max Roach

I think that the rhythm sections, drummers in particular, are the unsuing heroes of the music. It's the rhythm section that has changed the styles from one period to the other.