Max Roach

Person · Open Library

Works

1

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Film & TV

Acting · Newland, North Carolina, USA

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…

Known for

• Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat — Self (archive footage)2024
• Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes — Self (archival footage)2023
• Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) — Self (archive footage)2021
• Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell — Self - Jazz Musician (archive footage)2021
• 70 Years of Youth Revolt — Self (archive footage)2020
• Max Roach - Full Concert - 08/16/92 - Newport Jazz Festival — Themself2014
• Umbria Jazz Story — himself1993
• Behind the Scenes1992
• The Cosby Show — Dr. Gordon Darton1984
• Åke Hasselgård story1983

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1924

Active to

2007

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

179,608

Total plays

1,300,942

Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz drummer and composer. A pioneer of bebop, Roach went on to work in many other styles of music, and is generally considered alongside the most important drummers in history. He worked with many famous jazz musicians, including Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Billy Eckstine, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Eric Dolphy and Booker Little. <a href="

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Academic profile · OpenAlex

Works

13

Cited by

21

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing

   · 2012 · cited 24,605x

2. A smooth particle mesh Ewald method

   · 1995 · cited 21,521x

3. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,903x

4. Welcome to the Tidyverse

   · 2019 · cited 20,494x

5. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,622x

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Key facts

Born

Maxwell Lemuel Roach , ( 1924-01-10 ) January 10, 1924, Newland Township, Pasquotank County, North Carolina , U.S.

Died

August 16, 2007 (2007-08-16) (aged 83), Manhattan , New York City, U.S.

Genres

Jazz bebop

Occupations

Musician composer educator

Instruments

Drums percussion piano

Years active

1944–2002

Labels

Capitol Impulse!

Alma mater

Manhattan School of Music

Spouse

Abbey Lincoln (1962–1970)

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