There are many things that have gone from animation to live-action. And that transition can be a tough one depending on the property. It didn’t go well for, say, Avatar: The Last Airbender, losing ...

Max Roach, a master percussionist whose rhythmic innovations and improvisations provided the dislocated beats that defined bebop jazz, has died after a long illness. He was 83. The self-taught musical ...

New York – Max Roach got his first musical break at age 16, filling in when Duke Ellington’s drummer fell ill in 1940. Those three nights spawned a career that would make the self-taught Roach the ...

The drummer helped pioneer bebop in the 1940s and delivered a message of resistance and liberation from the 1960s on. Listen to 13 selections from musicians, writers and critics. By Marcus J. Moore ...

Experience the groundbreaking sounds of bebop pioneer and virtuoso composer Max Roach, whose far-reaching ambitions were inspired and challenged by the inequities of the society around him. Roach’s ...

Max Roach, the master percussionist whose rhythmic innovations defined bebop jazz during a wide-ranging career where he collaborated with artists ranging from Duke Ellington to rapper Fab Five Freddy, ...

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... New York — Max Roach got his first musical break at age 16, filling in when Duke Ellington’s drummer fell ill in 1940. Those three nights spawned a career ...

Max Roach's birth date could easily be a time signature played by the drummer. Though his birth certificate listed his arrival as January 10, 1924, he told radio historian Phil Schapp that his parents ...

Pioneering jazz drummer Max Roach was born on Jan. 10, 1924 in Newland, N.C., and grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. Roach began playing in New York jazz clubs in the early 1940s. From those early days until ...

Experience the groundbreaking sounds of bebop pioneer and virtuoso composer Max Roach. Experience the groundbreaking sounds of bebop pioneer and virtuoso composer Max Roach, whose far-reaching ...