Max Roach
(New Land, North Carolina 10.10.1924)



Max & Dizzy, Paris 1989 - A&M CD6404
Bright Moments - Soul Note 1159
Easy Winners - Soul Note 1109
Survivors - Soul Note 1093
Scott Free - Soul Note 1103
In the Light - Soul Note 1053
Chattahoochee Red - Columbia 37367
Pictures in a Frame - Soul Note 1003
Solos - Baystate 6021
Live in Amsterdam - Baystate 6029
Long as you're Living - Enja 4074
Max Roach Again - Affinity 32
Standard Time - EmArcy 814 190-1
Plus Four and More - EmArcy 195J-39
Conversations - Milestone 47061
Featuring Hank Mobley - Original Jazz Classics 202
Max Roach - Bainbridge 1042
Roachiduvivier/Clark - Bainbridge 1044
We Insist! The Freedom Now Suite - Columbia 36390
It's Time - MCA/Impulse 29053
Percussion Bitter Sweet - Impulse A-8
Members Don't Git Weary - Atlantic 1510
Drums Unlimited - Atlantic 1467
Lift Every Voice and Sing - Atlantic 1587
with M'Boom
Collage - Soul Note 1059
M'Boom - Columbia 37066
M'Boom Re Percussion - Baystate 6601
with Clifford Brown
Live at the Bee Hive - Columbia 35965
Study in Brown - EmArcy 1008
More Study in Brown - EmArcy 195J1
At Basin Street - EmArcy 1031
Brown/Roach - EmArcy 1033
Best Coast Jazz - EmArcy 1032
Jam Session - EmArcy 1012
Jams 2 - EmArcy 195J2
All-Stars - EmArcy 1007
With Strings - EmArcy 1011
Pure Genius Vol. 1 - Elektra Musician 60026
with Anthony Braxton
One in Two, Two in One - Hat Hut 2R06
Birth and Rebirth - Black Saint 0024
with Archie Shepp
The Long March - Hat Hut 2R13
The Force - Uniteledia 28976
with Cecil Taylor
Historic Concerts - Soul Note 1100/1
with Abdullah Ibrahim
Streams of Consciousness - Baystate 6016
with Abbey Lincoln
That's Him - Original Classics 085
Straight Ahead - Jazzman 5043
Sounds as a Roach - Joker 2056
with Charles Mingus
Mingus at the Bohemia - Original Jazz Classics 045
with Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker - Prestige 24009
The Complete Savoy Studio Sessions - Savoy 5500
The Very Best of Bird - Warner Bros 3198
The Greatest Jazz Concert Ever - Prestige 24024
Jazz at Massey Hall - Original Jazz Classics 044
with Thelonious Monk
Brilliant Corners - Original Jazz Classics 026
Reflections - Prestige 7751
Genius of Modern Music - Blue Note 81511
with Bud Powell
The Amazing Bud Powell - Blue Note 81503
The Genius of Bud Powell - Verve 2-2506
with Miles Davis
The Birth of the Cool - Capitol 16168
Blue Haze - Original Jazz Classics 093
Tune Up - Prestige 24077
At Last! Miles Davis and the Lighthouse All-Stars - Contemporary 7645
with Sonny Rollins
The Freedom Suite - Original Jazz Classics 067
Tour de Force - Original Jazz Classics 095
Worktime - Original Jazz Classics 007
Saxophone Collossus and More - Prestige 24050
with Buddy Rich
Rich Vs. Roach - Mercury 1016
with Duke Ellington
Money Jungle - United Artists 5632
with Coleman Hawkins
Bean & The Boys - Prestige 7824
with Kenny Dorham
Jazz Contrasts - Original Jazz Classics 028

His first gigs as a drummer were in gospel groups when he was 10, and with a variety of local bands. He studied at the Manhattan School of Music and began his associations with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker in 1942. Roach developed his style while playing at several of Harlem's after hours joints, including Monroe's Uptown House and Minton's Playhouse. Roach also worked with Miles Davis on his celebrated Birth Of The Cool sessions in 1949 and 1950. Roach led a hard-bop group with Clifford Brown in the '50s that also featured Sonny Rollins and Harold Land. The 1960s inspired some of Roach's most political and avant-garde albums, including We Insist! and It's Time, and he recorded for a number of labels including Impulse!, Riverside and Atlantic. He put together his pan-African drum group, M'Boom, in 1970 and for the next two decades he performed with a number of experimental musicians. He also played in solo, duo, trio, and string quartets and choral orchestra. He was the recipient of a Mac Arthur Genius Grant in 1988, and he currently leads a group named So What Brass Ensemble.