And as he did throughout his life, Max Roach continued to push the boundaries of music.
Shocked and grieving, Max Roach buried himself in music, and in the blossoming civil rights movement.
In the 1987 Max Roach Double Quartet, Roach sounds precise and melodic on his drums.
And more importantly, why death can finally take Max Roach but it can never take his music.
Max Roach was the hottest drummer in New York by the time he was 20 years old.
Mr. MAX ROACH (Jazz Musician): We used to do sometimes 12, 14 shows a day and we'd have a barker outside.
Max Roach was born in a North Carolina town founded by freed slaves, and grew up in a rough Brooklyn neighborhood.
And there was Max Roach in person, welcoming me and the rest of the committee into his apartment on Central Park West.
When she was just 16-years-old, she was performing with some of the great names of bebop: Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Max Roach.
He soon became one of the most in-demand trumpeters on the New York scene, playing with Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk.
So it was a big deal when Max Roach - one of the greatest musicians of all time - lent his name to our Cairo campaign.
But later, after meeting drummer Max Roach and becoming immersed in the struggles of black people around the world, she earned a reputation for being a warrior.
Yesterday, we bade farewell to opera great Luciano Pavarotti and last month we lost Max Roach, the man who revolutionized not just jazz drumming but jazz itself.
Max Roach was still a teenager when he landed a job with that orchestra, but it was his association with another musician that would launch the drummer's career.
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.
So if you think too many young people's musical horizons are about as narrow as an iPod, then in the name of Max Roach or John Lucien or Dinah Washington, do something about it.
He took up formal drum instruction at age 10 and began studying jazz two years later, citing the work of masters like Art Blakey, Philly Joe Jones, Max Roach, Tony Williams, Elvin Jones and Roy Haynes as early influences.
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If you wanted to pick up a copy of Max Roach's classic "We Insist: Freedom Now Suite, " you wouldn't have to explain to the salesclerk how to spell his name then wait a week because the record's out of stock.
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