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 ...

"[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 ...

When the Celebrity Series of Boston brings Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra to Symphony Hall on Jan. 28, there will be a twist. For their Max Roach Centennial Celebration, ...

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 ...

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 ...

“American Masters” (9 p.m., PBS) presents the documentary “Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes,” a profile of the percussionist who lent his sophisticated backbeat to jazz ensembles dating back to the ...