Saw this today on Fbook:
https://scontent.fman1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/26238762_1300323256740963_2693093301813870757_n.jpg?oh=5be22b8be18fc304ec3fce723c876a06&oe=5AFB3509
― Akdov Telmig (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 22:43 (six years ago) link
jazz in 3/4 time is such a good record, those drum solos are ripe for a 10 minute jam
― kolakube (Ross), Thursday, 11 January 2018 01:40 (six years ago) link
his M'Boom album with 8 percussionists and lots of African influences is just one of the best things I've ever heard. I've had it on repeat all day.
― calzino, Friday, 27 July 2018 16:38 (five years ago) link
Still a few more hours left of his birthday tribute on WKCR. M'Boom playing right now.
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 11 January 2019 02:14 (five years ago) link
clutch heads up right there, about to get in the car.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 11 January 2019 03:29 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wnW2KLWE-g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gNnrMZL6Uw
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Monday, 3 May 2021 04:37 (two years ago) link
Hopefully there's enough for some kind of bio to be cobbled together.
this is what i came here to check on. has there really never been a book-length study of MR, bio or otherwise?
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 05:44 (one year ago) link
from the nyt article linked above on the MR papers at the library of congress:
... the obscure Philadelphia pianist Hassan Ibn Ali, with whom he made a fascinating record for Atlantic in 1964. (There’s an hourlong tape in the collection of Ali playing solo piano in Roach’s apartment, some of which I heard, and several letters from him.)
does anybody know if this is related to (perhaps part of) the solo recordings released by omnivore this summer?
http://omnivorerecordings.com/shop/retrospect-in-retirement-of-delay/
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 18:38 (one year ago) link
has there really never been a book-length study of MR, bio or otherwise?
There's a handful of books of transcriptions of some of his solos, but that appears to be it. I assume there's a tiny bit of overlap in books on others; that is, some cursory background info on Max in books on Bird and on Clifford Brown, but nope, there's no Max bio nor any in-depth study of his approach (unless there are one or more graduate theses on his solos, which is to say, his compositions, which seems likely).
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 18 October 2022 18:58 (one year ago) link
Been working on these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=berzU_UBbb4
Not to reduce any drummer down to licks, but whenever I dig into his playing I'm blown away by how systematic, organized, and clever it is.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 October 2022 19:49 (one year ago) link
^ thanks, i had fun with this last night
― budo jeru, Thursday, 20 October 2022 01:25 (one year ago) link
Making the rounds of PBS right now (do not miss):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_JRvFcrsvE
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 5 November 2023 22:33 (five months ago) link
Also, can we get the full film of the Max Roach & Fab 5 Freddy show?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDwLmMkxqGk
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 5 November 2023 22:38 (five months ago) link
Would love to see the doc, do they put the full version online at all?
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Monday, 6 November 2023 14:55 (five months ago) link
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.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Monday, 6 November 2023 15:27 (five months ago) link
I'm going to see it in the theater Sunday -- can't wait!! It will be fun to see it with other people.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, 6 November 2023 22:47 (five months ago) link
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.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 21:44 (five months ago) link
Ha, nice. I remember seeking a couple of those M'Boom records out on cd and listened to them a ton.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 21:50 (five months ago) link
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.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 21:52 (five months ago) link
He made some really fascinating records in the mid '80s that I wrote about a couple of years ago.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 22:23 (five months ago) link
Wow, "Survivors" is crazy, I don't think I've ever heard it. It's like Bartok + drums.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Wednesday, 15 November 2023 15:55 (five months ago) link
born 100 years ago today
(or possibly 100 years and two days ago)
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 12:55 (three months ago) link