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Clifford Brown-Max Roach: Good Bait (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music July 03, 09

When Harold Land left the quintet in November 1955 to tend to an ailing grandmother in California (he also missed his...

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Max Roach: All Africa (from Freedom Now Suite) (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music December 27, 07

The horns only make the briefest appearance on this movement from Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite. We open with Abbey ...

Max Roach-Hassan Ibn Ali: Din-Ka Street (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 15, 09

Jason Moran brought The Max Roach Trio Featuring the Legendary Hassan to my attention, and it really speaks to me---o...

Max Roach-Clifford Brown: Love Is A Many Splendored Thing (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 15, 09

Clifford Brown And Max Roach At Basin Street is one of the albums that I played along with the most when I was younge...

Clifford Brown & Max Roach: Delilah (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 25, 07

Brown & Roach hitch the Biblical temptress’ slithery theme from Victor Young’s score for C.B. (Cast of Thousands!) De...

Max Roach: For Big Sid (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 15, 09

“For Big Sid” is one of three drum solos that Max recorded on Drums Unlimited, along with “The Drum Also Waltzes” and...

Clifford Brown & Max Roach: What is This Thing Called Love (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 24, 07

Clifford Brown had it all—all the range a trumpeter could wish for, a powerful and rich tone and infallible technique...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL MODERN JAZZ TRUMPET SOLOS

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Clifford Brown: Joy Spring (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

Unlike 16th-century conquistador Ponce de León, Clifford Brown actually found the mythical Fountain of Youth. One swi...

Charles Mingus: A Foggy Day (Rating: 82/100) posted in Music December 07, 07

Don't be fooled by the album cover. Max Roach is not on this track. The introduction is promising -- an avant-garde...

Clifford Brown-Max Roach: Blues Walk (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 03, 09

When the Max Roach-Clifford Brown Quintet formed in the spring of 1954, Sonny Stitt was its first saxophone player. ...

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Clifford Brown & Max Roach: Cherokee (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music October 27, 07

The clarity of ideas and ease of execution of Max Roach’s playing warrant his reputation as one of jazz’s most influe...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE GREAT MOMENTS IN MODERN JAZZ DRUMMING

Transitions and developments at the drumset have been an essential driving force throughout the history of jazz. Fro...

Max Roach: Lover (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

Like Dave Brubeck's 1955 "Lover," this track sticks exclusively to waltz meter. These cats, however, are card-carryin...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE GREAT LOVERS

Jazz has always relied on popular songs to connect quickly with an audience. In return, jazz has helped keep alive ...

Max Roach-Abbey Lincoln: Triptych: Prayer / Protest / Peace (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 15, 09

First and foremost, this recording was really important because of its social implications. The liner notes begin wit...

Max Roach: Valse Hot (1957) (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 01, 07

Max Roach waltzes with Sonny Rollins again a year after they'd twice recorded "Valse Hot" at more plodding tempos. At...

Clifford Brown & Max Roach: Land's End (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

The Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet was one the premier hard-bop ensembles, with both trumpeter Brown and drummer Ro...

Clifford Brown & Max Roach: Take The 'A' Train (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music March 15, 09

Of the four studio albums by the Clifford Brown/Max Roach Quintet (including “Sonny Rollins Plus 4”), “Study In Brown...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TRAIN TRACKS

For big bands in the thirties, trains were the logical upgrade from the drudgery of the band bus. Airplanes wer...

Oscar Pettiford & Max Roach (from Freedom Suite): There Will Never Be Another You (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music July 02, 08

Sonny Rollins showed up late for the Freedom Suite session, and the result is this curio: a duet between bassist Osca...

Max Roach: Garvey's Ghost (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 15, 09

This is one of my favorite cuts of music of all time. It’s another example of how the title really speaks to what’s h...

Max Roach: Effi (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music July 06, 09

Roach's saxophone-trumpet front lines certainly rivaled those of Art Blakey over several decades. Max's pairings inc...

Max Roach-Clifford Brown: (I Don't Stand) A Ghost Of A Chance (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 03, 09

This is the second day of studio recording for the EmArcy label by what most would term the “classic” Brown-Roach Qui...

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