In the process of recording "We Insist 2025!," her tribute to drummer Max Roach, Carrington reflected on how issues of ...

The jazz drummer and composer joins forces with vocalist Christie Dashiell to recast Max Roach’s influential 1960 suite, ...

If Max Roach’s career had ended in 1960 ... while “Freedom Day” paid tribute to the Civil-War era emancipation of slaves. Roach’s next album, recorded for the Impulse label in 1961 ...

The month kickstarts with the NEA Jazz Master Terri Lyne Carrington paying tribute to Max Roach’s Centennial with the debut of her “We Insist! 2025” ensemble complete with live dancing on the SMOKE ...

The Andy Kirk Research Foundation, Inc. presents, as part of the 9th Annual Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival, a three day tribute to the late jazz icon Dr. Maxwell Lemuel Roach. This programming is ...

The University of Massachusetts Amherst community will celebrate the centennial year of acclaimed bandleader, drummer, composer and activist Max Roach with a host of special events from Oct. 20 to 26.

The centennial of a pioneering modern jazz drummer, Max Roach, has opened up a busy time of celebration. There have been numerous events throughout the year, including an excellent concert at Jazz at ...

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The street co-naming is one of several centennial celebrations, including the upcoming A Max Roach 100th Tribute With: M'boom, featuring Warren Smith & Joe Chambers and The Kojo Melché Roney ...

"Max Roach Way" was introduced in the Brooklyn Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood where he grew up. A Brooklyn neighborhood has honored the late jazz musician Max Roach by renaming a corner after him.

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.

The corner of Greene and Marcy avenues in Bedford-Stuyvesant will be named "Max Roach Way." Born in North Carolina but raised in Brooklyn, Roach was recognized as the greatest jazz drummer of all ...