| Product Summary | | Label: Uni/verve | | UPC: 00042282267320 | | Release Date: 4/17/1990 | | Buy.com Sku: 60211540 | | Item#: MF36TR | Format:  CD |
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: Max Roach (drums); Sonny Rollins (tenor saxophone); Kenny Dorham (trumpet); Ray Bryant (piano); Billy Wallace, George Morrow (acoustic bass). | | PLUS FOUR is the first album Max Roach made after Clifford Brown and Richie Powell's death cast a gruesome shadow over his career in the summer of 1956. The trumpeter and pianist respectively had become an integral part of Roach's musical and personal life, and the car crash that took their lives threatened to interfere with the drummer's own career. Roach was faced with the task of rebuilding an unbeatable combo. | | This said, MAX ROACH PLUS FOUR is a wonderful record that attempts to pick up the musical pieces in the wake of Brown and Powell's death. Trumpeter Kenny Dorham and pianist Ray Bryant work well with the dean of the drums, and selections such as "Ezz-Thetic" and "It Don't Mean a Thing (If it Ain't Got That Swing)" really sizzle. On "Dr. Free-Zee," Roach is featured throughout on timpani as well as drum set. A provocative album, MAX ROACH PLUS FOUR is filled with superb teamwork and creative solo playing. |
| | Artist Overview | | One of the most technically gifted musicians in the history of jazz, Max Roach helped establish a new vocabulary for jazz drummers. A member of the house rhythm section at Monroe's in New York, Roach backed all the leading practitioners of the emerging bebop scene. In 1948 he participated in Miles Davis' seminal Birth of the Cool sessions before forming his own quintet with Clifford Brown. Later, Roach's work, most notably We Insist! Freedom Now Suite, reflected his own commitment to the civil rights movement. Throughout the '70s and '80s, Roach continued to associate with musicians of the avant garde, including Anthony Braxton and Cecil Taylor. In the '90s Roach was teaching at the University Of Massachusetts but continued to perform, including 1995's M'Boom with Ginger Baker and Tony Williams. |
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| | Associated Artists and Works | | Blakey, Art | | Blakey, Art | | Blakey, Art | | Bridgewater, Cecil | | Brown, Clifford | | At Basin Street ~ Brown, Clifford | | Brown & Roach Inc. ~ Brown, Clifford | | Brown, Clifford | | More Study In Brown ~ Brown, Clifford | | Study In Brown ~ Brown, Clifford | | Alone Together: The Best Of The Mercury Years ~ Brown, Clifford | | Brown, Clifford | | Brown, Clifford | | Brown, Clifford | | Clifford Brown & Max Roach [Remaster] ~ Brown, Clifford | | At Basin Street [Remaster] ~ Brown, Clifford | | Brown, Clifford | | Brown, Clifford | | Brown, Clifford | | Brown, Clifford | | Brown, Clifford | | Brown, Clifford | | Brown, Clifford | | Brown, Clifford | | Brown, Clifford | | Brown, Clifford | | Brown, Clifford | | Brown, Clifford | | Brown, Clifford | | Brown, Clifford | | Candoli, Conte | | Candoli, Conte | | Money Jungle [Remaster] ~ Ellington, Duke | | Ellington, Duke | | Ellington, Duke | | Ellington, Duke | | Ellington, Duke | | Gillespie, Dizzy | | Gillespie, Dizzy | | Ibrahim, Abdullah | | Monk, Thelonious | | Monk, Thelonious | | Parker, Charlie | | Parker, Charlie | | Rich Versus Roach ~ Rich, Buddy | | Rich, Buddy | | Terry, Clark |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 05/08/1990 | | Original Release Date : 1957 | | Catalog ID : 822 673 | | Label : Emarcy (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Runtime : 58m : 37s | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Mixed | | SPAR Code : AAD | | UPC : 00042282267320 |
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