MAX MOTHERFUCKING ROACH 1924-2007 RIP

Also, can we get the full film of the Max Roach & Fab 5 Freddy show?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDwLmMkxqGk

Would love to see the doc, do they put the full version online at all?

Yeah, the documentary was streaming on the PBS website, might still be. It's very good — incomplete of course, but very interesting and told me a lot I didn't know. The impression I came away with most strongly is that Roach absolutely deserves a biography as exhaustive and in-depth as the recent Sonny Rollins book. But it would be really hard to get all his kids on the same page to support such a project.

I'm going to see it in the theater Sunday -- can't wait!! It will be fun to see it with other people.

I learned a lot from the doc!! I hadn't heard the M'Boom records before and seeing the documentary footage of them recording on all those cool instruments made it extra nice to hear for the first time (I listened via spotify) There was a pre-recorded q&a w the filmmakers after the screening and unfortunately it was not very interesting. I left to pee.

Ha, nice. I remember seeking a couple of those M'Boom records out on cd and listened to them a ton.

I listened to Rich vs Roach again the other day, it's fun. Imagine trying to keep your cool in the face of the Buddy Rich meat grinder.

He made some really fascinating records in the mid '80s that I wrote about a couple of years ago.

Wow, "Survivors" is crazy, I don't think I've ever heard it. It's like Bartok + drums.

born 100 years ago today

(or possibly 100 years and two days ago)