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Max Roach
Newland, North Carolina, USA
Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz drummer and composer. A pioneer of bebop, he worked in many other styles of music, and is generally…
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Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz drummer and composer. A pioneer of bebop, he worked in many other styles of music, and is generally considered one of the most important drummers in history. He worked with many famous jazz musicians, including Clifford Brown, Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Abbey Lincoln, Dinah Washington, Charles Mingus, Billy Eckstine, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Eric Dolphy, Benny Carter, and Booker Little. He also played with his daughter Maxine Roach, a Grammy-nominated violist. He was inducted into the DownBeat Hall of Fame in 1980 and the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1992. In the mid-1950s, Roach co-led a pioneering quintet along with trumpeter Clifford Brown. In 1970, Roach founded the percussion ensemble M'Boom. Description above from the Wikipedia article Max Roach, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2024
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2023
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
Movie Self (archival footage)
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2021
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2021
Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell
Movie Self - Jazz Musician (archive footage)
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2020
70 Years of Youth Revolt
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2014
Max Roach - Full Concert - 08/16/92 - Newport Jazz Festival
Movie Themself
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1993
Umbria Jazz Story
Movie himself
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1992
Behind the Scenes
TV show
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1984
The Cosby Show
TV show Dr. Gordon Darton
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1983
Åke Hasselgård story
Movie
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1982
Dizzy's Dream Band
Movie Self
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1981
Death of a Prophet
Movie Original Music Composer
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1981
Max Roach: Live at Blues Alley
Movie Self
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1971
Great Performances
TV show Self
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1969
Renovación
Movie Music
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1964
Black Sun
Movie Musician
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1960
Jazz on a Summer's Day
Movie Self
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Ford ever
Movie Music
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Max Roach Double Quartet Stuttgart 1990
Movie Self
