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  • In Paris
  • The Max Roach Quartet, Featuring Hank Mobley
  • Jazz at Massey Hall
  • Clifford Brown & Max Roach
  • Brown and Roach Incorporated
  • Study in Brown
  • Max Roach Plus Four
  • More Study in Brown
  • The Best of Max Roach and Clifford Brown in Concert
  • At Basin Street
  • Drummin' the Blues
  • Jazz in 3/4 Time
  • Max
  • Max Roach Plus Four On the Chicago Scene
  • Deeds, Not Words
  • The Max Roach 4 Plays Charlie Parker
  • Rich Versus Roach
  • The Many Sides of Max
  • Award-Winning Drummer
  • Long As You're Living
  • Jazz In Paris: Parisian Sketches
  • We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite
  • Quiet as It's Kept
  • Newport Rebels
  • Percussion Bitter Sweet
  • Max Roach and Friends, Vol. 2
  • Speak, Brother, Speak!
  • It's Time
  • The Max Roach Trio Featuring the Legendary Hasaan
  • Drums Unlimited
  • Members, Don't Git Weary
  • Lift Every Voice and Sing
  • Streams of Consciousness
  • Birth & Rebirth
  • Long March, Pt. 2
  • The Long March, Part 1
  • One in Two, Two in One
  • Pictures in a Frame
  • M'Boom
  • The Long March
  • Swish
  • In the Light
  • Live at Vielharmonie Munich
  • Scott Free
  • Survivors
  • It's Christmas Again
  • Collage
  • Easy Winners
  • Bright Moments
  • Max + Dizzy, Paris 1989
  • To the Max!
  • Max Roach with the New Orchestra of Boston and the So What Brass Quintet
  • Festival Journey
  • Friendship

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Release Date

1979

Duration

48:01

Genre

Styles

Recording Date

July 25, 1979 - July 27, 1979

Recording Location

  • CBS Recording Studios, New York, NY
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Max Roach

M'Boom

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In 1979 Max Roach founded M'Boom, a group consisting of eight percussionists. Their debut recording (which has been reissued on this Columbia CD) is far from being a monotonous drum battle. In fact, through the utilization of a wide range of instruments that include chimes, timbales, marimba, vibes, xylophone, tympani, various bells and steel drums, there are quite a lot of melodies to be heard during these nine performances (which are all group originals other than Thelonious Monk's "Epistrophy"). This is a particularly colorful set that is easily recommended not only to jazz and percussion fans but to followers of World music.

Track Listing

Title/Composer Performer Time Stream
1
O Clay / Omar Clay
Max Roach
05:17 SpotifyAmazon
2
W Smith / Warren Smith
Max Roach
03:33 SpotifyAmazon
3
Joe Chambers
Max Roach
04:01 SpotifyAmazon
4
Max Roach
Max Roach
03:24 Spotify
5
Max Roach
Max Roach
06:46 Spotify
6
O Clay / Omar Clay
Max Roach
07:15 Spotify
7
Omar Clay / Warren Smith
Max Roach
06:50 Spotify
8
Kenny Clarke / Thelonious Monk
Max Roach
04:28 Spotify
9
Roy Brooks
Max Roach
06:27 Spotify
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