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“Richard, I make music so that people will dance.” That was Max Roach speaking to Summer Stages Dance co-founder Richard Colton, and in “Max Roach 100,” the performers dance up a storm. Curated by ...

PUTNEY — The Christine Correa Ensemble will highlight Max Roach’s "Freedom Now Suite" and "Percussion Bitter Sweet" at Next Stage Arts on Sunday at 7 p.m., at 15 Kimball Hill in downtown Putney.

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, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick Ayodele Casel leads a program celebrating Roach’s centenary that also includes works by Rennie Harris as well as by Ronald K. Brown and ...

“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 ...

Max Roach was excited by the premise and promise of rap when it first hit the music scene. Roach was introduced to the burgeoning genre by his godson and hip hop pioneer Fab 5 Freddy, and would later ...

"Max Roach Way" was introduced in the Brooklyn Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood where he grew up. A Brooklyn neighborhood has honored the late jazz musician Max Roach by renaming a corner after him. If ...

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 ...

If you know people who play drums, want to play drums, or want to play drums better, “Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes” could effect a turning point in their lives. Watching its subject play the title ...

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 ...

Max Roach was excited by the premise and promise of rap when it first hit the music scene. Max Roach was excited by the premise and promise of rap when it first hit the music scene. Roach was ...