In the process of recording "We Insist 2025!," her tribute to drummer Max Roach, Carrington reflected on how issues of ...

Protest music is on the rise as it should be. We Insist! Max Roach’s "Freedom Now Suite" (1960), an important collaboration ...

At Manhattan’s Smoke jazz club in March, Terri Lyne Carrington looked up from her drum set. She described for the audience ...

A look at one of the jazz icon’s most provocative albums. By John White ... By Dave Cantor The family of the jazz drummer Max Roach is donating his papers to the Library of Congress, enabling ...

At the dawn of the 1960s drummer Max Roach was already ... while “Freedom Day” paid tribute to the Civil-War era emancipation of slaves. Roach’s next album, recorded for the Impulse label ...

For their Max Roach Centennial ... His debut album as a leader, “150 Million Gold Francs,” is due out this spring. But first comes the tribute to Roach, who died in 2007 at the age of 83 ...

Something changed in Roach. He became bleak and his music more resistant. This approach crystallized in 1960, beginning with the album “We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite,” a sharp ...

Curated by Richard Colton and produced by the Joyce, “Max Roach 100” (April 2-7) will pay tribute to the jazz musician ... Roach’s 1961 Afro-Cuban album. A performance by Roach’s band ...

Brown and Arcell Cabuag, this centenary tribute to the great jazz drummer, composer, and activist premiered last week at the Joyce Theater in New York. This weekend, “Max Roach 100″ is at the ...

In this follow up to the critically-acclaimed The Outlaw (Savant 2006) recording, Joe Chambers tips his hat to colleagues Horace Silver and Max Roach with Horace To Max, paying tribute to mentor ...

As a young teen, becoming aware of and falling in love with the Black American Music called jazz, Max Roach was one of the names that would always come up. When I heard Tony Williams on an album ...

Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins recorded several live club albums with Clifford Brown and Max Roach, but only two were ... a three day tribute to the late jazz icon Dr. Maxwell Lemuel Roach. This ...