MOG Most discussed tracks ❤ Max Roach by Jean-Michel Basquiat Equipoise Although Max Roach was very much a product of the be-bop revolution of the 1940s, he proved to be quite receptive to modal post-bop… Read full post »
Side One: Track One ❤ Saturday, October 11, 2008 Well hello again Side One readers, it’s been quite some time hasn’t it? In the month or so that we’ve been apart, I’ve been plowing through… Read full post »
Popdose ❤ M. Ward - Outta My Head from Transfiguration of Vincent (2003) 10cc - Sand In My Face from The Complete UK Recordings (2004) Zoot Sims - Someone To Watch Over… Read full post »
Big Diction ❤ Monday’s are for jazz. Nothing says driving to work on Monday morning like rolling the dial down past the alt-rock band and rocking a little jazz radio. Unfortunately, my car… Read full post »
wordsandmusic ❤ I promised a commenter some more Francis 'Scrapper' Blackwell – so here's the man giving out 'Blue Day Blues.' He really is one of the missing links between twenties country… Read full post »
wordsandmusic ❤ Yusef Lateef recorded 'The Centaur and the Phoenix' in 1961. This is 'Every day (I fall in love),' a slow, gorgeous reading, bursting with sonorities and colour. Lateef features his… Read full post »
ipickmynose: a San Francisco Bay Area-… ❤ It’s not uncommon for Americans to go over to Europe and ride the rails all over but most haven’t ridden this nation’s rails extensively. From September 7 to 10, 2003,… Read full post »
soul sides ❤ Max White with the J.C. White Singers: Were You There When They Crucified My Lord From Lift Every Voice and Sing (Atlantic, 1971) Gil Scott-Heron/Brian Jackson: Peace Go With You… Read full post »
Locust St. ❤ Absent Friends Ike Turner, I'm Lonesome Baby. Ike and Tina Turner, Sexy Ida (Pt. 1). Porter Wagoner, Midnight. Janis Martin, Will You Willyum. Clifford Brown and Max Roach, Powell's Prances.… Read full post »
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz Show ❤ The death of Oscar Peterson this week was just another in a number of jazz legends who passed away this year. Let's pause for a moment and remember the wonderful… Read full post »
Destination: Out ❤  Here’s our second annual look back at the most popular tracks Dest:OUT hosted over the past year. We thought it would be interesting to review what readers opted to download… Read full post »
soul sides ❤ (Editor's Note: This post was written by David Jaffe to commemorate the life, times and music of the late, great Max Roach) Max Roach was one of jazz music's great… Read full post »
wordsandmusic ❤ "Despair to Hope" from Don Ellis's 1961 album 'New Ideas' features improvisation based on 'an emotional framework, rather than a musical one.' Ellis provided a detailed explanation of his approach… Read full post »
Locust St. ❤ A Century in Jumps (Slight Return) 1947 Nellie Lutcher, Hurry On Down. Bill Johnson and His Musical Notes, Shorty's Got to Go. T. Texas Tyler, Who's To Blame. Fairfield Four,… Read full post »
ear fuzz ❤ Mildama - Clifford Brown & Max Roach from the album Brown and Roach, Inc. on EmArcy Records (1954). Drum Conversation - Max Roach w/ The Bud Powell Trio from the… Read full post »
wordsandmusic ❤ Max Roach founded a quintet with Clifford Brown in the early 1950s – here is a track from their album 'Study in Brown.' 'Jacqui' was composed by the band's pianist,… Read full post »
undomondo ❤ from the vaults of Tom Sutpen With great sadness and awe I read about the demise of Max Roach while on vacation a few days ago on a national newspaper.… Read full post »
The Good, The Bad, and The Unknown ❤ Last Wednesday the world said good-bye to one of the jazz great, drummer Max Roach. In an instrumental musical world dominated by piano players, saxophonists, and trumpeters, Max staked a… Read full post »
los amigos de durutti ❤ Well dammit, it's happened again. Back-to-back memorial tributes. Last time was a Ray Barretto memorial post on the heels of a r.i.p. J Dilla tribute post. There have been too… Read full post »
Motel de Moka ❤ Max Roach (1924-2007) One of the most important jazz drummer in history of jazz R.I.P . “ Small list, a tribute to Max Roach ” 01. Four Tet - Thirtysixtwentyfive… Read full post »
The Oak Room ❤ Max Roach: " Conversation " (from Deeds, Not Words 1958. Buy /download )The great jazz drummer Max Roach died yesterday. (Born in Newland, NC, so there's the "local music" connection… Read full post »
The Rawking Refuses To Stop! ❤ From left: Duke Ellington, Max Roach and Charles Mingus on the cover of Money Jungle A lot of obits around here lately, huh? I guess we're waiting for more geniuses… Read full post »
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