- Brown and Roach, Incorporated / Study in Brown / More Study in Brown / At Basin Street / Clifford Brown & Max Roach Quintet · 1954
- Alone Together: The Best of the Mercury Years · 1994
- 100 Best of Jazz · 1958
- I'll Remember April · 1989
- A Collection From Daahoud · 1956
- Brown and Roach, Incorporated / Study in Brown / More Study in Brown / At Basin Street / Clifford Brown & Max Roach Quintet · 1954
- Clifford Brown And Max Roach At Basin Street (Expanded Edition) · 1955
- M'boom: Collage · 1984
- Brown and Roach, Incorporated / Study in Brown / More Study in Brown / At Basin Street / Clifford Brown & Max Roach Quintet · 1954
- Brown and Roach Inc. (Remastered) · 1953
- Great Jazz Classics · 1960
- Hot House: The Complete Jazz At Massey Hall Recordings (Live At Massey Hall / 1953) · 2023
- Hot House: The Complete Jazz At Massey Hall Recordings (Live At Massey Hall / 1953) · 2023
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About Max Roach
Max Roach helped establish a new vocabulary for jazz drummers while backing all of the leading practitioners of the bebop scene. In 1948 he participated in Miles Davis' seminal Birth of the Cool sessions before forming his own quintet with iconic bop trumpeter Clifford Brown. Later, Roach's work most notably included the seminal We Insist! Freedom Now Suite in 1961. Throughout the '70s and '80s, Roach continued breaking new ground. He formed the percussion ensemble M'Boom in 1970, issuing a handful of acclaimed albums including 1973's Re: Percussion for Strata East, M'Boom for Columbia in 1979, and To the Max for Enja in 1991. He worked with vanguard musicians including Anthony Braxton and Cecil Taylor in the '70s and '80s. His final album, Friendship, was recorded in collaboration with trumpeter Clark Terry, and issued by Columbia in 2002.
- HOMETOWN
- New Land, NC, United States
- BORN
- 10 January 1924
- GENRE
- Jazz