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Max Roach ...
As Max Roach sat down to “stir the soup” in the Coleman Hawkins Quintet in 1943 it would be another thirty nine years before the compact disk was produced at the Philips factory in Germany, starting a global music revolution.
Back in those days Vinyl was the leading technology, analogue ruled and Max was nineteen. In 1982, when the compact disk came out, he was fifty eight and had become one of the most important influences in drumming music has ever seen. He had worked with the greats of jazz (Mingus, Brown, Roach, Gillespie, Parker, Monk, Powell, and Miles Davis) and was embarking on concerts with gospel choirs, orchestras and rap artists.
Today the CD has seen off Vinyl, reel to reel tape, 8 track and the cassette to become the means by which the majority of us still listen to our music. Tonight, over a beer, we’ll play some CDs and remember just how good Max Roach was.
