"[Clifford Brown's] technique was, for him, to use the facility and bring up the quality of a trumpet player in relation to having his trumpet expressed as a voice. He not only had the technique, he ...

SOMETIME in 1954, when he was twenty-four years old, the trumpeter Clifford Brown became one of the greatest jazz soloists. His playing, already celebrated for its fluency and imagination took on a ...

One of jazz’s finest small groups was the The Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet. It featured the bombastic, spectacular trumpeter Brown, and a drummer at the forefront of the bop rhythmic revolution in ...

He's been at the forefront of contemporary jazz for over 40 years. He played with a number of bop groups in New York during the 1940s with quintets led by Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. Later, a ...

The album “Clifford Brown and Max Roach” was critically well received and includes several notable tracks, including two that have since become jazz standards. The album was inducted into the Grammy ...

Over the course of a little more than a year in 1955 and ’56, Max Roach, who was already the premiere jazz drummer of his generation, experienced the death of two of his very closest musical partners.

For two extraordinary hours on May 24, 1987, Max Roach (1924-2007) made music live on the air from the Jazz 88 Performance Studio at WBGO in Newark, N.J. The drum master was wearing a grey silk suit ...

Considered one of the inventors of modern jazz drumming, Roach helped formulate the language of bebop, along with Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and... Celebrating 30 Years Of 'Fresh Air': Drummer And ...