Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up Max Roach, the master percussionist whose rhythmic innovations ...

“Richard, I make music so that people will dance.” That was Max Roach speaking to Summer Stages Dance co-founder Richard Colton, and in “Max Roach 100,” the performers dance up a storm. Curated by ...

Over the course of a little more than a year in 1955 and ’56, Max Roach, who was already the premiere jazz drummer of his generation, experienced the death of two of his very closest musical partners.

Bedford Stuyvesant celebrated Juneteenth with a street co-naming ceremony on the corner of Greene and Marcy avenues for Max Roach, one of the most influential jazz drummers and composers of all time.

Who did Max Roach inspire with his astoundingly innovative drumming and exceptional musical eloquence? It might be easier to ask who he didn’t inspire, given the enormous, genre-leaping impact of ...

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NEW YORK — Max Roach, one of the greatest jazz drummers of all time, will be honored Juneteenth when a street corner in Bedford-Stuyvesant is named after him. The corner of Greene and Marcy avenues ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Some of Max Roach’s ideas had been viewed as untenable in jazz music due to their unorthodox or eccentric ...

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, I ...

A look at one of the jazz icon’s most provocative albums. By John White, Lynn Levy, Daniel Ramirez and Marcus J. Moore The Joyce Theater’s spring/summer season will feature a new work by Ronald K.

NEW YORK Max Roach, a master percussionist whose rhythmic innovations and improvisations provided the dislocated beats that defined bebop jazz, has died after a long illness. He was 83. The ...

He's been at the forefront of contemporary jazz for over 40 years. He played with a number of bop groups in New York during the 1940s with quintets led by Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. Later, a ...