RIP Max Roach

[severedlips]

……i know we have a few jazz fans here, thought i’d pass this along for anyone who hasn’t heard the news. but damn, imagine the jam session that’s goin’ on somewhere in the afterlife…

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/16/arts/ … ref=slogin

[SG]

I knew he was very ill the last few years,I heard it was Althezmers I heard one of his last concerts on the radio with Mal Waldron.Max was one of the pioneer of changing the direction of jazz drumming.There`s a local jazz cat named Jerry Graneli who grew up in California said in the `50s that hearing Roach immediately made him get drums and become a jazz drummer.Max was very open minded,when alot of his generation hated free jazz he did`nt.He played duets with Cecil Taylor and Anthony Braxton.
RIP Max

[fata morgana]

R.I.P.

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