Jazz Drummer Max Roach Dies at 83 - Jazz Musician Max Roach Dies at 83

[Isaac]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn....adlines

[Charangaman]

Max Roach was undoubtably one of the most important drummers of all time.. I can't beleive the lack of press coverage on this..

Many, many respects to a true legend.

[CongaTick]

Amen.

[bongosnotbombs]

A long and fruitful career, an artist never to be forgotten.

[OLSONGO]

A powerful and class act kind of brotha.

America America when will you learn to appreciate your greats.

RIP Olsongo



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[Isaac]

There's a lot of media coverage about Max Roach in the last two days,
even the BBC has a nice tribute to him.

I had the honor of helping my older brother who was
Max's student/volunteer roadie for the day setting up his drumset at a PAS convention many years ago. Max insisted on paying us $200 even though
we volunteered to do it. He was a really classy gentleman and
a kind human being.


http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/16/arts/music/16cnd-roach.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6950810.stm

http://www.latimes.com/news....tuaries

http://us.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/08/16/obit.roach.ap/index.html

http://www.npr.org/templat....&f=1001

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=3488140

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,293505,00.html

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070816/ap_on_en_mu/obit_roach

[afrocubarico]

I have some of the recordings of Mr. Roach with Clifford Brown. Truly remarkable.

afrocubarico

[congamyk]

There's plenty of respect for Max Roach in America.

He was a great drummer and band leader.