Award-Winning Drummer
1960 studio album by Max Roach
Award-Winning Drummer | ||||
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Studio album by Max Roach | ||||
Released | 1960 | |||
Recorded | November 4, 1958 Capitol Studios, New York City | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Label | Time T/70003 | |||
Producer | Bob Shad | |||
Max Roach chronology | ||||
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Award-Winning Drummer (also released as Max Roach) is an album by American jazz drummer Max Roach featuring a session recorded in 1958 and released on the Time label.[1]
Reception
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Tom Hull | B+ (![]() ![]() |
Allmusic reviewer Ron Wynn stated the group was "among the finest hard bop ensembles around".[2]
Track listing
All compositions by Max Roach, except as indicated,
- "Tuba de Nod" — 3:56
- "Milano" (John Lewis) — 5:09
- "Variations on the Scene" (George Coleman) — 5:37
- "Pies of Quincy" — 3:19
- "Old Folks" (Dedette Lee Hill, Willard Robison) — 4:16
- "Sadiga" (Coleman) — 6:31
- "Gandolfo's Bounce" (Booker Little) — 5:38
- "Milano" [alternate take] (Lewis) — 6:33 bonus track on iTunes release
- "Old Folks" [alternate take] (Hill, Robison) — 4:31 bonus track on iTunes release
- "Gandolfo's Bounce" [alternate take] (Little) — 6:12 bonus track on iTunes release
Personnel
- Max Roach — drums
- Booker Little — trumpet
- George Coleman — tenor saxophone
- Ray Draper — tuba
- Art Davis — bass
References
- ^ Max Roach discography accessed September 21, 2012
- ^ a b Wynn, R. Allmusic Review accessed September 21, 2012
- ^ DeMichael, Don (14 April 1960). "Max Roach: Award-Winning Drummer". DownBeat. Vol. 27, no. 8. pp. 34, 36.
- ^ Hull, Tom (June 2, 2020). "Music Week". Tom Hull – On the Web. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
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- The Max Roach Quartet featuring Hank Mobley (1953)
- Max Roach + 4 (1956)
- Jazz in 3/4 Time (1956–57)
- The Max Roach 4 Plays Charlie Parker (1957–58)
- Award-Winning Drummer (1958)
- Booker Little 4 and Max Roach (1958)
- MAX (1958)
- Max Roach + 4 on the Chicago Scene (1958)
- Max Roach + 4 at Newport (1958)
- Max Roach with the Boston Percussion Ensemble (1958)
- Deeds, Not Words (1958)
- Moon Faced and Starry Eyed (with Abbey Lincoln, 1959)
- Quiet as It's Kept (1959)
- Rich Versus Roach (and Buddy Rich, 1959)
- The Many Sides of Max (1959)
- Long as You're Living (1960)
- Parisian Sketches (1960)
- We Insist! (1960)
- Percussion Bitter Sweet (1961)
- It's Time (1962)
- Money Jungle (and Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, 1962)
- Speak, Brother, Speak! (1962)
- The Max Roach Trio Featuring the Legendary Hasaan (and Hasaan Ibn Ali, 1964)
- Drums Unlimited (1965)
- Members, Don't Git Weary (1968)
- Lift Every Voice and Sing (1971)
- Re: Percussion (M'Boom, Strata-East, 1973)
- Birth and Rebirth (and Anthony Braxton, 1978)
- Historic Concerts (and Cecil Taylor, 1979)
- M'Boom (1979)
- One in Two – Two in One (and Anthony Braxton, 1979)
- Pictures in a Frame (1979)
- The Long March (and Archie Shepp, 1979)
- In the Light (1982)
- Live at Vielharmonie (1983)
- Collage (M'Boom, 1984)
- It's Christmas Again (1984)
- Scott Free (1984)
- Survivors (1984)
- Easy Winners (1985)
- Bright Moments (1986)
- Max + Dizzy: Paris 1989 (and Dizzy Gillespie, 1989)
- To the Max! (1990–91)
- Best Coast Jazz (1954)
- Brown and Roach Incorporated (1954)
- Clifford Brown All Stars (1954)
- Clifford Brown & Max Roach (1954–55)
- Daahoud (1954)
- Jam Session (and Clark Terry, Maynard Ferguson, 1954)
- Clifford Brown with Strings (1955)
- Study in Brown (1955)
- Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street (1956)
- Alone Together: The Best of the Mercury Years (1954–60)