Description
Release Date: 2021
Label: Enlightenment
Track List
Disc 1
- 1 Cou-Manchi-Cou
- 2 Just One of Those Things
- 3 Glow Worm
- 4 Mobleyzation
- 5 Chi-Chi
- 6 Kismet
- 7 I’m a Fool to Want You
- 8 Sfax
- 9 Orientation
- 10 Drum Conversation
- 11 Sweet Clifford
- 12 I Don’t Stand a Ghost of a Chance
- 13 Stompin’ at the Savoy
- 14 I’ll Sting Along with You
- 15 Mildama
- 16 Darn That Dream
- 17 I Get a Kick Out of You
Disc 2
- 1 Delilah
- 2 Parsian Thoroughfare
- 3 The Blues Walk
- 4 Daahoud
- 5 Joy Spring
- 6 Jordu
- 7 What Am I Here for
- 8 Facts About Max
- 9 Milano Blues
- 10 Swingin’ the Blues
- 11 Breadline Blues
- 12 Bye Bye Blues
- 13 Blues in the Night
- 14 Royal Garden Blues
- 15 Count’s Blues
Disc 3
- 1 Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)
- 2 The Casbah
- 3 Sleep
- 4 Figure Eights
- 5 Yesterday’s
- 6 Big Foot
- 7 Limehouse Blues
- 8 Toot, Toot, Tootsie Goodbye
- 9 Money Jungle
- 10 Fleurette Africaine (African Flower)
- 11 Very Special
- 12 Warm Valley
- 13 Wig Wise
- 14 Caravan
- 15 Solitude
Disc 4
- 1 Milestones
- 2 Sweet and Lovely
- 3 Rounder’s Mood
- 4 Dungeon Waltz
- 5 Jewel’s Tempo
- 6 Moonlight Becomes You
- 7 Things Ain’t What They Used to Be
- 8 Driva’ Man
- 9 Freedom Day
- 10 Triptch
- 11 All Africa
- 12 Tears for Johanessburg
Notes
American jazz drummer and composer Maxwell Lemuel Roach, born January 10, 1924, was a pioneer of bebop, and worked in many other styles of music too. Roach is generally considered one of the most important drummers in history. He worked with many famed jazz musicians, including 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, and Booker Little. He was inducted into the DownBeat Hall of Fame in 1980 and the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1992. This 4CD collection of original albums on which Max Roach led or co-led, brings together the finest work he ever performed in the company of other jazz greats. Featuring masterful albums Max made with such luminaries as Clifford Brown, Duke Ellington, Hank Mobley, Charles Mingus, Buddy Rich, his wife Abbey Lincoln, and a host of others, this collection includes eight such collaborative records, all digitally remastered for the finest quality. All at once making for a delightful compilation of many of Roach’s best ever recordings, this set will work equally well for those new to Max Roach’s music as it will to those longer-term fans who require a gentle reminder of just how dynamic, creative and downright talented Max Roach always was.
