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Max Roach

Jazz
Hard bop
Swing
Often cited by top drummers as an important influence in their own playing, Max Roach is considered by many to be one of the great all time jazz drummers. Born in 1923 on the edge of North Carolina's famous Great Dismal Swamp, by the age of ten Roach was already playing regularly in gospel bands for his local church community. During his early twenties he was in the vanguard of the bebop style which defined American jazz in the late 1940s. Roach played with some of the finest exponents of the genre, drumming for leading bebop musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker...
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All God's Chillun Got RhythmBud Powell, Max Roach and Ray Brown
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Darn That DreamMax Roach, Clifford Brown, Harold Land and Max Roach Quintet
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Moritat (Mack the Knife)Sonny Rollins, Tommy Flanagan, Max Roach and Doug Watkins
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I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With YouClifford Brown and Max Roach
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All God's Chillun Got RhythmMax Roach & Clifford Brown and Max Roach
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All the Things You AreCharles Mingus, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Max Roach and Charlie Parker
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All God's Chillun Got RhythmBud Powell, Max Roach and Ray Brown

Complete Jazz Series 1946 - 1950

3:02

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Darn That DreamMax Roach, Clifford Brown, Harold Land and Max Roach Quintet

Clifford Brown - Max Roach

4:04

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Moritat (Mack the Knife)Sonny Rollins, Tommy Flanagan, Max Roach and Doug Watkins

Tenor Madness

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I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With YouClifford Brown and Max Roach

Clifford Brown - Max Roach

7:22

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All God's Chillun Got RhythmMax Roach & Clifford Brown and Max Roach

Clifford's Axe

6:11

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All the Things You AreCharles Mingus, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Max Roach and Charlie Parker

Quintet of the Year

7:13

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