For two extraordinary hours on May 24, 1987, Max Roach (1924-2007) made music live on the air from the Jazz 88 Performance Studio at WBGO in Newark, N.J. The drum master was wearing a grey silk suit ...

The College of Humanities and Fine Arts, Department of Music and Dance, the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, and the Fine Arts Center will host the Max Roach Centennial Celebration ...

Max Roach, the master percussionist whose rhythmic innovations defined bebop jazz during a wide-ranging career where he collaborated with artists ranging from Duke Ellington to rapper Fab Five Freddy, ...

If you know people who play drums, want to play drums, or want to play drums better, “Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes” could effect a turning point in their lives. Watching its subject play the title ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. When you’re a true fan of jazz music, you don’t take the music lightly. When you ...

Drummer Max Roach died on August 16, 2007 in New York after a long illness. He was 83. A primary architect of the bebop revolution, Roach was one of the most innovative and influential musicians in ...

When the Celebrity Series of Boston brings Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra to Symphony Hall on Jan. 28, there will be a twist. For their Max Roach Centennial Celebration, ...

Max Roach, 83, a dazzling drummer who helped create the rhythmic language of modern jazz while expanding the expressive possibilities of the drums, died Aug. 16 in a New York hospital. The cause of ...

Max Roach, one of the greatest jazz drummers of all time, will be honored Juneteenth when a streetcorner in Brooklyn is named after him. The corner of Greene and Marcy Aves. in Bedford-Stuyvesant will ...

Max Roach was a pioneer in the jazz space and helped create the bop movement en route to being named one of the best drummers of all time. Among his great works was For Big Sid, a song off of his 1966 ...

He was one of the most talked-about jazz musicians in the 1950s. After he died in a car accident at 25, his influence grew. By Peter Keepnews A look at one of the jazz icon’s most provocative albums.

Max Roach was excited by the premise and promise of rap when it first hit the music scene. Roach was introduced to the burgeoning genre by his godson and hip hop pioneer Fab 5 Freddy, and would later ...