
When Max Roach died last August at 83, he was remembered for a number of things: his stature as a patriarch of bebop; his role in quickening the pulse of jazz drumming; his intelligent ambitions as a conceptualist and composer; his commitment to social justice and equality. What was sometimes buried in the mix was Mr. Roach's track record as a...

Abbey Lincoln, singing at two free outdoor concerts in New York in two consecutive days, on the same weekend as the memorial service for her ex-husband, Max Roach, and not too long after open-heart surgery: all this seemed a bit much to hope for. And it didn't happen. Ms. Lincoln was scheduled to play both days of the 15th annual Charlie Parker...

Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell and Max Roach -- the nucleus of a group of immensely talented musicians who engineered a revolution in jazz as wondrous and profound as the birth of Cubism in painting. Max was a tall, skinny kid who had grown up in Brooklyn and was so gifted a percussionist by his early 20s that Dizzy would express the...
Maxwell Lemuel Roach (10. januar 1924 – 16. august 2007) var jazz-trommeslager og komponist.
Han har spillet sammen med mange store jazz-navne blandt andre: Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Sonny Rollins og Clifford Brown. Desuden havde han sin egne jazz-grupper. Gennem tiderne fremkom han med adskillige udtalelser om afro-amerikaneres menneskerettigheder. Han betragtes af mange som en af de mest betydningsfulde trommeslagere i historien. Max Roach har i perioden fra 1957 til 2003 lavet en lang række soloplader i eget navn.