Max Roach

20th century US jazz drummer & composer, United States, 1924 to 2007

Albums

Year Title Average Ratings
1947 And the Angels Swing / Symphony Sid's Idea
1952 New Sounds
1953 Bird - Diz - Bud - Max
1954 Jam Session
1956 Rollins Plays for Bird
1956 Max Roach + 4
1957 Pretty for the People
1957 Jazz in ¾ Time
1957 Drummin’ the Blues
1958 Deeds, Not Words
1958 Max Roach + 4 on the Chicago Scene
1959 Rich Versus Roach
45 more releases
1959 Quiet as It's Kept
1959 Booker Little 4 & Max Roach
1960 Award Winning Drummer
1960 Sonny Clark Trio
1961 Percussion Bitter Sweet
1961 We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite
1962 Money Jungle
1966 Drums Unlimited
1968 Members, Don’t Git Weary
1971 Lift Every Voice and Sing
1976 Percussion Discussion
1976 Force - Sweet Mao - Suid Afrika 76
1977 Sounds As A Roach
1978 Streams of Consciousness
1978 Birth and Rebirth
1978 Solos
1978 Confirmation
1979 Again
1980 The Long March
1980 M’Boom
1981 Chattahoochee Red
1982 Swish
1984 Survivors
1985 Daahoud
1985 Easy Winners
1987 Bright Moments
1990 The Long March Part 1
1991 Max Roach and Friends - Volume 2
1991 To the Max!
1991 Max Roach and Friends - Volume 1
1995 The Max Roach 4 Plays Charlie Parker
1996 Max Roach With the New Orchestra of Boston and the So What Brass Quintet
1997 Max
1999 Explorations… to the Mth Degree
2002 Friendship
2002 Jazz in Paris: Parisian Sketches
2007 Creating The Beat
2011 Duo (Verona) 1989
2011 Audio Blues
2013 The Complete Max Roach 1958 - 1962
2016 The Complete Study in Brown
With the Boston Percussion Ensemble
Max Roach
The Loadstar
Lift Every Voice and Sing

EPs

Year Title Average Ratings
1953 Bird - Diz - Bud - Max, Vol. 1
1953 Bird - Diz - Bud - Max, Vol. 2

Live

Year Title Average Ratings
1955 In Concert
1958 Jazz at Massey Hall Volume 1 - Perdido / Salt Peanuts
1958 Max Roach + 4 at Newport
1959 Newport ’58
1972 Newport in New York '72 - The Jam Sessions, Volume 2
1977 Live in Tokyo, Volume 2
1977 Live in Tokyo, Volume 1
1980 One in Two - Two in One
1984 Historic Concerts: McMillin Theatre, Columbia U., New York, December 15, 1979
1985 European Tour
1990 Max + Dizzy - Paris 1989
1997 Jazz At The Philarmonic-Frankfurt 1952
3 more releases
1999 Love for Sale
2022 Now’s The Time
2023 Hot House: The Complete Jazz at Massey Hall Recordings

Soundtracks

Year Title Average Ratings
2010 Clifford Brown - Max Roach