Give the Drummer Some

Sonny Rollins: Strode Rode
From Saxophone Colossus (1956)
Sonny Rollins - tenor sax
Tommy Flanagan - piano
Doug Watkins - bass
Max Roach - drums

Max Roach: Effi
From Members, Don't Git Weary (1968)
Max Roach - drums
Gary Bartz - alto sax
Charles Tolliver - trumpet
Stanley Cowell - piano
Jymie Merritt - electric bass

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“Max Roach, cymbals socking
Bass drum talking, snare drum rocking
Restructuring – the metaphysics
of a jazz thing”
~ Gang Starr (“Jazz Thing”)



Max Roach - R.I.P.
January 10, 1924 - August 16, 2007

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