Max Roach

Maxwell Lemuel Roach January 10 1924 August 16 2007 was an American jazz drummer and composer A pioneer of bebop he worked in many other styles of music and is generally considered one of the most important drummers in history He worked with many famous jazz musicians including Clifford Brown Coleman Hawkins Dizzy Gillespie Charlie Parker Miles Davis Duke Ellington Thelonious Monk Abbey Lincoln Dinah Washington Charles Mingus Billy Eckstine Stan Getz Sonny Rollins Eric Dolphy Benny Carter and Booker Little He also played with his daughter Maxine Roach a Grammynominated violist He was inducted into the DownBeat Hall of Fame in 1980 and the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1992 In the mid1950s Roach coled a pioneering quintet along with trumpeter Clifford Brown In 1970 Roach founded the percussion ensemble MBoom Description above from the Wikipedia article Max Roach licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia