Max Roach Live at Festival de jazz d'Antibes, Antibes, France - 1977 (audio only)

Max Roach with Cecil Bridgewater, Billy Harper & Reggie Workman Live at Festival de jazz d'Antibes, Antibes, France, 1977-07-21. Radio broadcast.
-Setlist:
01. It's Time
02. Six Bits Blues
03. Round About Midnight
04. South Africa
-Lineup:
Cecil Bridgewater: trumpet
Billy Harper: tenor sax
Reggie Workman: bass
Max Roach: drums

A strong case can be made for Max Roach as the most complete drummer in jazz history. Roach was in the vanguard of both the bebop movement that transformed jazz in the late 1940s and its hard-bop offshoot that galvanized the music in the mid-’50s. His early ’60s recordings made him a daring and distinctive artistic catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement.
He was decades ahead of his time in co-founding his own record label, essentially invented the modern jazz percussion ensemble, M’boom, wrote and played music for Sam Shepherd’s plays, Alvin Ailey’s dances, gospel choirs, and hip-hop artists. He was the first jazz artist to receive the MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship in 1988. And he capped off his long and remarkable career with innovative fusions of jazz and Euro-classical music via double quartet and orchestra.
But when you take a spin with Max Roach, his august resume and place in the pantheon takes a back seat to sheer enjoyment. His musical, melodious approach to rhythm draws you in. More than a timekeeper, he was a conversationalist, fluent in a wide array of styles, settings, and tempi.
Boldly open-minded, Roach was perceptive and receptive enough to be an ace collaborator, able to grasp and mold the prevailing, often daunting, visions of other artists. Roach brought out the best in Charlie Parker, cajoled Duke Ellington to be more daring and Cecil Taylor more accessible, and captured the spirit of iconoclasts like Herbie Nichols and Anthony Braxton. On his own projects, he blended fierce creativity with a love of lyrical expression, which is why his more experimental and esoteric works remained so riveting.
(Britt Robson, udiscovermusic.com).

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