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Max Roach's Stolen Drums Found in Tennessee Barn

In 2007, jazz drummer and bebop innovator Max Roach passed away. Not only was the legendary drummer lost to the world, but his drums were stolen. Finally, the missing set has been recovered, in quite possibly the last place anyone ever expected to find it....  read more

Jazz-filled memorial service honors Max Roach

A number of actors, poets and fellow musicians are paying tribute to recently deceased jazz drummer Max Roach during a memorial service "awash with jazz" today, which began at 9 a.m with a public viewing and will be followed by an 11 a.m. funeral at the Riverside Church in Manhattan. Among those honoring Roach, who died in his sleep at 83 last week due to complications from dementia and Alzheimer's, are Bill Cosby, Ruby Dee, Maya Angelou, Cassandra Wilson and the masterful jazz pianist Billy Taylor. He is survived by five children. Roach was a part of modern jazz's most...  read more

Jazz pioneer Max Roach dead at 83

Legendary jazz drummer Max Roach died in his sleep last night in New York City. He was 83 years old. An innovator of the highest level, Roach was one of the first jazz musicians to coax lyricism out of the drums. Roach ushered in a new expressive style of percussion in jazz, and subsequently all of pop music. One of bebop’s founding members, Roach performed alongside Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespee, and appeared on numerous seminal recordings in the 1940s and 1950s, among them Miles Davis’ Birth of the Cool, Thelonious Monk’s Genius of Modern Music: Volume 2, and Bud...  read more