“We used to listen to records and take off the record what the person was doing. You didn’t see the person. You’d just hear it. We’d figure out what was happening with our ears. Then […]
Category: Max Roach
Very occasional quote of the day: Max Roach fast
“We’d have jam sessions at Minton’s where the tenor players were long-winded,” Roach explained. “Don Byas would play 20 minutes on ‘Cherokee,’ and then Johnny Griffin would play another 20 minutes, and then somebody else […]
Transcription: more Max Roach comping
Posting lots of 50s stuff these days. Here is Max Roach playing on Infinity Promenade, from the Miles Davis Lighthouse All-Stars record, At Last! In 1953 Miles was living with his father in East St. […]
Transcription: Max Roach – Dexterity
Max Roach’s drum breaks on just about the first jazz recording I ever noticed and liked— Dexterity by Charlie Parker. I dug an old LP compilation of Parker 78s out of my dad’s record collection. […]
Transcription: more Max
More from Max Roach: his solo on the same tune from last post— Flossie Lou from Clifford Brown & Max Roach At Basin Street. It’s 32 bars long, and starts at 2:39. He plays quarter notes […]
Transcription: Max Roach comping
Part 3 of a little mini series, looking at some comping examples by Tony Williams, Mickey Roker, and now Max Roach. This is Max’s playing during Clifford Brown’s solo on Flossie Lou, from Clifford Brown & […]
Max’s rubadub – triplets added
Wow, slow posting in August. This is something more to do with that Max Roach rubadub-like system I’ve been writing about recently. Here I’ve added some filler triplets to the original transcribed phrases I posted before— […]
Max’s rubadub – transcribed phrases
Some excerpts from a very large transcription I’m working on— Max Roach’s entire performance on Freedom Suite, by Sonny Rollins, which I plan on releasing as an e-book. All 19 bloody minutes of it. These […]
Practice loop: Max in 5
In honor of what would be Max Roach’s 92nd birthday, here’s a practice loop sampled from As Long As You’re Living, from his album Quiet As It’s Kept. The tune is a blues in 5/4, […]