Grammy Awards Feb 8, 2008
Noms will be announced Tuesday, Jan. 22. Check back later to see how you did. (Variety)
Black History Month Activities Abound in New Jersey Feb 5, 2008
Adults will enjoy a lecture and demonstration on the life of Max Roach, founder of modern jazz, who rewrote the rules of drumming in the 1940s and spent the rest of his career breaking musical barriers and defying listeners' expectations. Parents can introduce their kids to classic jazz at Swingin' at Duke's Place, where Jazz pianist Eric Reed will dive into Duke Ellington's vast musical catalog by demonstrating how Ellington incorporated the sounds of the world into his compositions. (PR Newswire)
Legendary choreographer brings 'Chapel/Chapter to Conn College Jan 25, 2008
Jones and his partner Arnie Zane founded the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company 25 years ago, and burst onto the scene with "Infinite Momentum," performed with legendary drummer Max Roach at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Since then, they have performed worldwide in over 200 cities in 30 countries, and today, the Harlem-based company is recognized as one of the most innovative and powerful forces in the modern dance world. (Westerly Sun, RI)
The Air This Week Jan 16, 2008
Monday 6 a.m.-midnight The Max Roach Orgy (WHRB). 9 a.m-noon Pianist Jeffrey Swann in recital, Stravinsky "Apollo," Bax Three Pieces for Small Orchestra, etc. (Boston Globe)
Air of uncertainty about classical format and future of WCRB Jan 10, 2008
18, 6 a.m.-midnight), and Max Roach (Jan. 21, 6 a.m. - Jan. 23, midnight). (Boston Globe)
With grit or grace, they left their mark Jan 1, 2008
Author, playwright, and film director Ingmar Bergman created such cinematic masterpieces as "The Seventh Seal" and "Cries and Whispers." Percussionist Max Roach laid down the beat for countless jazz greats while beating the drum for civil rights. A master technician, Oscar Peterson ranked among the great jazz pianists of all time. (Boston Globe)
No comments posted. Dec 30, 2007
The music world mourned Beverly Sills and Luciano Pavarotti, who appealed to the masses as well as opera buffs; the great classical cellist Mstislav Rostropovich; drummer Max Roach and pianist Oscar Peterson, hailed as geniuses by fellow jazzmen; and rock n roll pioneer Ike Turner. Directors Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni Europeans who championed the art of cinema rather than Hollywood glitter died on the same day. (Lake City Reporter, FL)
If I ruled Pittsburgh ... Dec 30, 2007
Back in the 1950s, the Grill served as one of the hubs of Pittsburgh nightlife, hopping six nights a week while playing host to such giants as Max Roach, John Coltrane and Charles Mingus. A facility dedicated to music would be the perfect legacy. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Notable deaths; Dec 28, 2007
Max Roach, jazz drummer, 83: Roach brought the drum set to the front of the stage; his innovative approach to drumming forever changed the way the instrument was played and perceived. Also a composer, his achievements reached well beyond music as a pioneer in the use of the creative arts for the advocacy of civil rights and racial equality. (Los Angeles Times)
Highs and lows of jazz in '07 Dec 27, 2007
Much sadder was the grim reaping of jazz's greatest drummer, Max Roach, keyboards maestro Joe Zawinul, Manly Festival director John Speight and the ultimate eccentric of Australian jazz, singer Joe Lane. We also lost two prized venues in Wine Banq and Woodfire Cabaret. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Leading personalities who died in 2007 Dec 25, 2007
Max Roach, US jazz drummer and composer, at age 83 in New York (Aug 16). Italian opera singer Luciano Pavarotti, aged 71 in his native town of Modena (Sept 6). (India Times)
The Band to get Grammy for lifetime achievement Dec 23, 2007
Also on the list this year are Burt Bacharach, Doris Day, Earl Scruggs, Cab Calloway, Itzhak Perlman and Max Roach, the Recording Academy has announced. The award honours "lifelong artistic contributions to the recording medium.". (Globe and Mail)
A Tsar Is Born Dec 23, 2007
Evel Knievel, Norman Mailer, Lady Bird Johnson, Max Roach, Ingmar Bergman, Beverly Sills, Yolanda King, Robert Goulet, Phil Rizzuto and many others left us but not before making a distinct impression. Video. (Time.com)
Lifetime Grammy for Bacharach Dec 20, 2007
Posthumous honours will be given to jazz singer and bandleader Cab Calloway and jazz drummer Max Roach. Bacharach, the composer of memorable tunes such as Walk on By, Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head and What the World Needs Now, has already won six Grammy Awards. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Burt Bacharach, Doris Day earn lifetime Grammys Dec 19, 2007
Also on the list are jazz singer and bandleader Cab Calloway, classical violinist Itzhak Perlman, jazz drummer Max Roach and bluegrass banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs. The awards will be posthumous for Calloway, who died in 1994, and for Roach, who died in August. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Grammy-winning record producer Joel Dorn dies Dec 19, 2007
He was likely best known within the industry, however, as one of the in-house producers for Ahmet Ertegun's Atlantic Records, where he worked with such jazz greats as Mann, Les McCann, Max Roach, Freddie Hubbard, Keith Jarrett, Oscar Brown Jr. and others. "Joel bridged the worlds of jazz and pop with enormous skill and grace, never compromising the integrity of his artists and their music," said Edgar Bronfman Jr., chairman of Warner Music Group, whose subsidiary, Rhino Records, has reissued... (USA Today -- Life)
Bacharach, Band, Calloway Get Lifetime Grammys Dec 19, 2007
Swing vocalist Doris Day, Israeli violinist Itzhak Perlman, jazz drummer Max Roach and bluegrass innovator Earl Scruggs will also receive Lifetime Grammys. The honors, given for "lifelong artistic contributions to the recording medium" will be doled out at a private event on Feb. 9 and publicly the next day during the televised ceremony at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. (Billboard.com)
Jazz Producer Joel Dorn Dies At 65 Dec 19, 2007
Veteran record producer Joel Dorn, who worked with such artists as Roberta Flack, Max Roach and the Neville Brothers, died of a heart attack yesterday (Dec. 17) in New York. (Billboard.com)
Grammys to honor 12 Dec 19, 2007
Lifetime achievement awards will go to composer Burt Bacharach, the Band, bandleader Cab Calloway, singer Doris Day, violinist Itzhak Perlman, the late drummer Max Roach and bluegrass banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs. Clarence Avant, who ran Sussex Records and then Motown; Elektra Records founder Jac Holzman; and Memphis producer Willie Mitchell will be honored with the Academy's Trustees Award. (Variety)
Producer helped shape Atlantic Records' sound Dec 19, 2007
Dorn's use of pop production techniques brought new attention to jazz artists, including drummer Max Roach, flutist Herbie Mann, pianist Les McCann, saxophonist Eddie Harris, vibraphonist Gary Burton and saxophonists Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Yusef Lateef. In the pop field, he produced singer Roberta Flack's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," which was named record of the year for 1972. (Los Angeles Times)
Grammy-winning jazz producer Joel Dorn dies at 65 Dec 18, 2007
BEIJNG, Dec. 18 (Xinhuanet) -- Veteran record producer Joel Dorn, who worked with such artists as Roberta Flack, Max Roach and the Neville Brothers, died of a heart attack on Monday in New York. He was 65. (Xinhuanet, China)
Artists and entertainers who died in 2007 Dec 12, 2007
Drummer Max Roach was remembered as a genius in the jazz world. Igor Moiseyev brought his Russian folk dance troupe to audiences worldwide, even during the Cold War, while Marcel Marceau kept the art of pantomime alive. (MSNBC -- News)
Wallinger, Winehouse or Wagner? Dec 11, 2007
All this despite a swathe of grim reapings that included the Americans Michael Brecker, Alice Coltrane, Max Roach, Andrew Hill and Joe Zawinul; the Britons Mike Osborne and Paul Rutherford; and the critics Whitney Balliett and Richard Cook. UK shows by surviving giants included Sonny Rollins (still awesome at 77) and Ornette Coleman. (Guardian Unlimited)
Cronin: Sonny Rollins Interview Nov 10, 2007
Now aged 77, Rollins is constantly reminded that he has outlived most of his peers, including many with whom he collaborated such as John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Art Blakey and Max Roach. . (Zmag.org)
Ray Robinson and Miles Davis Oct 29, 2007
A rising star in the jazz scene, Davis moved to New York in 1951 to play with the greats; Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins, Max Roach et al, but as exciting as the jazz scene was, the drug scene that accompanied it had just as much, if not more allure. By 1952 Davis was pimping prostitutes to help support his habit. (Suite101.com)
SCSU exhibit focuses on first half of triumphant photographic display Oct 18, 2007
The event is dedicated to the great Max Roach (1924-2007), known as a father of modern jazz who loved Harlem. As a teenager, Roach worked briefly with Duke Ellington's orchestra at the Paramount Theater and with Charlie Parker at Monroe's Uptown House in Harlem, where he took part in jam sessions that helped lay the groundwork for bebop. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Latin rhythms flavor his jazz Oct 17, 2007
"As a trombone player, I always love playing Latin music, so I eventually hooked up with Mario Bauza's Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra. He was the godfather of Afro-Cuban music. Mario got me a gig playing with Max Roach.". Later, Herwig met Palmieri and Tito Puente and started playing in their groups. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Levy Restaurants Signs Development Deal With Schussler Creative, Inc. Oct 3, 2007
-- Aerobleu(TM) - "The Spirit of Cool(TM)": When Max Morgan won an old DC-3 in an all night poker game in Paris at Aerobleu, he, Miles Davis and Max Roach embarked on a journey, giving flight to legendary saxophone jam sessions, leaving behind some of the best jazz every played and a state of mind that has come to be known as "Aerobleu". Aerobleu encourages guests to leave their inhibitions at the door and take pleasure in sultry, seductive live jazz, legendary libations, and unforgettable food... (PR Newswire)
Jonathan Abbott brings fresh ideas and an eye to the future of WGBH Oct 1, 2007
Once, Abbott used a personal connection - and the station's reputation - to cajole legendary drummer Max Roach into signing a legal release form for the live broadcast of his performance ... And he hopes the mystique of community broadcasting itself - the same reputation that once incurred trust in Max Roach - will keep audiences tuned in. (Boston Globe)
From Joyce to musical harmony Sep 27, 2007
"My favorite drummers - Max Roach, Zach Hill, John Bonahm - all straddle the middle ground of time and dynamics while still viewing it as an emotional instrument.". This mindset helped to create a style that is fluid and complex, perfect to add further muscle or space to Stephens' musical contributions. (Daily Iowan, IA)
50 Years Of Jazz Sep 16, 2007
He's wowed when he hears who else performed that weekend when what is now the world's oldest continuously running jazz festival took flight: Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Brubeck, Gerry Mulligan, Billie Holiday, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Max Roach, Benny Carter, Buddy DeFranco and the Harry James Orchestra, among others. "What a lineup! It's a shame I didn't get to hear most of those people," says Rollins, who probably flew in, played and then left for another gig. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
The Constitution Of A Jazzman Sep 12, 2007
Early one morning years ago, I was at the Blues Alley jazz club in Washington, D.C., to do a television interview with Max Roach. As always, I was early. (Disinformation)
11 Things: Max Roach (1924-2007) Sep 7, 2007
"It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" ("Max Roach Plus Four") ... "I was standing outside of Birdland ... wearing some old dirty clothes when Max Roach walked up and looked at me and told me that I was 'looking good.' Then, he put a couple of new $100 bills in my pocket." - Miles Davis ... "What did Lester Young say? Don't overextend your welcome. ... You always leave somebody wanting some more." - Max Roach. (San Francisco Chronicle)
World Saxophone Quartet to play on the blues of politics Sep 5, 2007
"This is something that Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln did in the 1960s. We were inspired by that but also by the current political situation, particularly as it relates to New Orleans and the war in Iraq.". The World Saxophone Quartet has come a long way from its roots -- Lake said it started out almost accidentally. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
All-star lineup keeps it classy at Tanglewood Jazz Festival Aug 31, 2007
Jimmy Heath was one of the performers who offered musical tribute last week at the funeral of legendary drummer Max Roach, whose death leaves artists such as these gentlemen among the shrinking group of custodians of the memory of bop's early days, and true national treasures. Hank Jones and Roberta Gambarini, followed by Ahmad Jamal and Jimmy Heath, perform Sunday at 8 p.m. at Seiji Ozawa Hall. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Celebrating the life of Max Roach Aug 25, 2007
Though not acquainted, Koga, Payne and Smith became one with thousands of mourners who thronged Riverside Church in Manhattan's Morningside Heights on Friday to participate in a farewell celebration to legendary jazz drummer and social activist Max Roach ... "I have wept copiously at losing Max Roach," said Angelou. (Newsday -- New York City)
Updated: Legendary Jazz Drummer Max Roach to be Remembered at Riverside Church Public Viewing and Funeral on Friday Aug 20, 2007
Family Issues Statement on the Occasion of Roach's Passing NEW YORK, Aug. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- A public viewing will be held at Riverside Church for jazz great Max Roach, who died from complications of dementia/Alzheimer's Disease at 12:45 a.m. Thursday in New York at the age of 83. His daughters Maxine and Dara were at his bedside, according to family spokesperson, Terrie M. Williams. (PR Newswire)
Jazz World Mourns Loss of Be-Bop 'Architect' Aug 20, 2007
VOA News - Jazz World Mourns Loss of Bebop 'Architect. A trusted source of newsand information since 1942. (Voice of America)
Max Roach, Pioneer of Modern Jazz, 1924-2007 Aug 19, 2007
Max Roach (New York Times, 1990). Max RoachOne of the last of the original bop inventors and musical father to several more generations of jazz drummers, Max Roach passed away on August 16th at age 83 ... " Though not the first bop drummer (Kenny Clarke earns that distinction), Roach was widely acknowledged as the most influential and at times the most controversial. His musical imagination, like his flying hands, never stood still from his earliest days in gospel bands to experiments with the... (Jazz Police)
Max Roach: a Hurricane on the Drum Set Aug 19, 2007
August 18, 2007 ; Jazz drummer Max Roach died this week at the age of 83 ... Pioneering Jazz Drummer Max Roach Dies at 83 ... Max Roach created new drumming concepts of rhythm and sound. (NPR)
Jazz drummer Max Roach dies Aug 18, 2007
Legendary jazz drummer Max Roach, best known for creating the fast-paced bebop style, has died in New York aged 83 ... Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite, a seven-part movement that addressed slavery and racism in America. (BBC News -- Americas)
Obituary: Max Roach Aug 18, 2007
It says much for Charlie Parker's ability to spot talent that two young sidemen from his most famous quintet, Miles Davis (obituary September 30, 1991) and Max Roach, left him far behind. Roach, who has died aged 83, was rated among the greatest of pioneering drummers and later shone as an innovative composer and bandleader. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Master jazz drummer Max Roach dead at 83 Aug 18, 2007
NEW YORK Max Roach, a master percussionist whose rhythmic innovations and improvisations provided the dislocated beats that defined bebop jazz, has died after a long illness ... The roundness and nobility of sound on the drums and the clarity and precision of the cymbals distinguishes Max Roach as a peerless master. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Disney's 'High School Musical 2' more like cartoon Aug 18, 2007
R.I.P Max Roach 1924-2007. Hudson boys win Pickerington golf tournament. (Akron Beacon Journal)
Innovative, influential drummer dies at 83 Aug 18, 2007
Legendary drummer Max Roach dies at 83 - CNN.com ... Legendary drummer Max Roach dies at 83 ... Max Roach, innovative, influential jazz drummer, dead at 83. (CNN -- Showbiz)
Max Roach, 83; created rhythmic foundation of bebop, expanded role of drums Aug 17, 2007
Max Roach, one of the most innovative and influential drummers in jazz history, as well as a professor of music for many years at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, died yesterday at a Manhattan hospital ... He was coleader of one of the most important jazz groups of the '50s, the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet, which helped define the hard bop school of jazz ... "It's only a slight exaggeration to say," The (London) Independent newspaper wrote in 1998, "that every time we hear the... (Boston Globe)
Max Roach, a founder of modern jazz, dies at 83 Aug 17, 2007
Max Roach, a founder of modern jazz who rewrote the rules of drumming in the 1940's and spent the rest of his career breaking musical barriers and defying listeners' expectations, died early Thursday in New York. He was 83. (International Herald Tribune)
"Survivor" All-Stars Ready for Battle Aug 17, 2007
Max Roach made a career out of rewriting the rule books. The pioneering jazz. (Yahoo News -- Survivor)
Roach's Innovations Changed Jazz Beat Aug 17, 2007
Thank God he left a piece of his soul on his recordings so that we'll always have a part of him with us. " In 1988, Roach became the first jazz musician ever honored with a MacArthur Fellowship - receiving a $372,000 "genius grant. (Tampa Bay Online, FL -- News)
Lohan sued for causing emotional distress Aug 17, 2007
Celebrated jazz percussionist Max Roach, the bebop pioneer who played with musical greats like Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and Charlie Mingus, has died at 83. Warner Bros. (CBC News)
Obituaries in the News Aug 15, 2007
Pomeroy played at times with Parker, Charlie Mariano, Stan Kenton, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins and others. In addition to Sinatra, he backed Tony Bennett and Sarah Vaughn. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Creative musician's sweet notes cherished Aug 14, 2007
Along with Burton and Parker, Mr. Pomeroy played at various times with Ornette Coleman, Stan Getz, Lionel Hampton, Coleman Hawkins, Stan Kenton, Gerry Mulligan, Max Roach, and Sonny Rollins. During four decades at Berklee, 22 years at MIT, and a stint at New England Conservatory, Mr. Pomeroy taught hundreds of students. (Boston Globe)
Jazz bassist Art Davis dies at 73 Aug 5, 2007
Davis, seemingly able to play anything, joined the bebop star Max Roach for several years at uptown clubs and on many recordings, including Davis's first, at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1958. While playing with Roach in Harlem, Davis met and befriended Coltrane. (Yahoo! Asia News)
Konitz present at birth of cool jazz, and hot to this day Aug 4, 2007
With baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan, pianist John Lewis and drummer Max Roach also aboard, the nonet recorded sessions that led to the "Birth of the Cool" album, which gave rise to the cool jazz movement that later became associated with the West Coast. Musically groundbreaking, the nonet was also controversial because it contained black and white musicians together. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Art Davis, 73; known for mastery of the bass, also was a psychologist Aug 4, 2007
Described by Hentoff as Coltrane's favorite bassist, Davis performed on the saxophonist's albums including "Ascension," Volumes 1 and 2 of "The Africa/Brass Sessions" and "Ole Coltrane." The two musicians met one night in the late 1950s at Small's Paradise, a jazz club in Harlem, where Davis was playing with drummer Max Roach. Coltrane invited Davis to play with him the following morning at one of his legendary grueling practice sessions. (Los Angeles Times)
Elias A. Blake Jr., 77; an advocate for black colleges Jul 5, 2007
In 1982, he was executive producer of "Film in Search of Improvisation," an educational film on jazz featuring Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach and Mary Lou Williams. Survivors include Mona Blake, his wife of 43 years, and two sons. (Los Angeles Times)
Stairway to heavenly music Jul 1, 2007
Living in a second-floor apartment above the old Crawford Grill on Wylie Avenue, Brown routinely stepped downstairs to hear such giants as Charles Mingus and Erroll Garner, John Coltrane and Max Roach ... "I met practically everyone they brought in from New York. I saw the great Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln. I even got to see Art Blakey and Miles Davis, with his smart ass. He had a terrible attitude, kind of full of himself like Paris Hilton. "Miles only played at the Grill once as I can recall,... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Famous five: Why The Traveling Wilburys are the ulimate supergroup Jun 21, 2007
The most famous are probably Miles Davis's two quintets that aligned the trumpeter with the likes of John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Cannonball Adderley and Wayne Shorter, and the great bebop summit of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus and Max Roach that produced the legendary Massey Hall concert of 1953. The first rock'n'roll supergroup was undoubtedly the impromptu meeting of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis at Sun Studios, the off-the-cuff... (Belfast Telegraph)
At Healdsburg Jazz Festival, the tradition is untraditional Jun 6, 2007
Except for the last two, each of the players came up in the era of hard bop, which ruled jazz from the mid-'50s through the '60s -- expressed in bands led by Art Blakey, Max Roach, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Freddie Hubbard and many more ... He was a top-choice tenor man for not only Blakey but the drummers Max Roach and Elvin Jones. (San Francisco Chronicle)
The Julian Priester Trio with Jimmy Bennington (Drums) and Eric Warren (Bass) will Perform at the Famed Velvet Lounge Thursday/Friday July 5 and 6, 9 Jun 3, 2007
Former sideman with Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, Max Roach and others brings his trio w Jimmy Bennington (drums) and Eric Warren (bass) and will play Jazz and American Free Music ... From his early days in Chicago with Sun Ra and His Arkestra to Duke Ellington, from Max Roach to Muddy Waters. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Afro-American Museum Celebrating Ghana Apr 30, 2007
The *Jazz Live* concert series has hosted some of the world's greatest musicians, including Max Roach, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Betty Carter, Sun Ra and his Arkestra, and many others. Call for a current calendar. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
- Dave Simpson gets a drum lesson from Tony Allen Mar 30, 2007
However, unlike his American heroes - the jazz greats Art Blakey, Max Roach and Elvin Jones - Nigerian drummers never used the hi-hat, which meant Allen could never learn. Then he came across an article in his favourite American jazz magazine, Down Beat in which Max Roach offered instruction on how to play hi-hat. (Guardian Unlimited)
Wynton Marsalis Mar 6, 2007
Singing in a clarion tone with minimal vibrato, she projects a timbre not unlike Marsalis' trumpet, carrying the album the way Abbey Lincoln carried Max Roach and Oscar Brown Jr.'s "Freedom Now Suite.". But that was a cry for civil rights; what troubles Marsalis is the state of civility itself. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Living)
Whatcha thinkin' there, Sonny? Feb 19, 2007
" His concerts are famous for their brilliance and unpredictability, and his recorded catalogue includes such classics as Saxophone Colossus, Tenor Madness, The Bridge and the soundtrack to Alfie. A solo artist since the mid-fifties, he has collaborated with such greats as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Coleman Hawkins, Max Roach, and Thelonious Monk, and even made a cameo appearance on the Rolling Stones album Tattoo You. At 76, he remains a surprisingly modest, hard-working musician, the kind of... (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Lots of drumrolls for Haynes Feb 6, 2007
He replaced Max Roach in Charlie Parker's quintet in 1949, and has since supported a roster of jazz eminences, from Sarah Vaughan to Thelonious Monk to John Coltrane, before becoming a fine bandleader himself. Saturday night at Scullers, Haynes appeared before a jam-packed house with saxophonist Jaleel Shaw, pianist Martin Bejerano, and bassist David Wong, whose combined ages barely exceed that of their leader. (Boston Globe -- Living)
