4 posts tagged “jazz”
The last giant of bebop (and beyond) passes away? Aside from partly inventing modern jazz drumming, playing on a couple dozen legendary bebop records, and being early and loud on civil rights, Roach was amazingly adaptable and went way further than most of his contemporaries, and his duet albums with Cecil Taylor and Anthony Braxton are fantastic. Here's a track from the second Braxton collaboration, too long to upload to Vox:
It'll be up for a week.
I'd post something from his own classics We Insist! and Percussion Bittersweet (please listen to them!), but I don't have them handy. And not forgetting the Charlie Parker sides, the Ellington/Mingus/Roach collaboration Money Jungle, Brilliant Corners, Sonny Rollins' Saxophone Colossus, Miles' Birth of the Cool, etc etc etc etc.
Oh, and what the heck, here's something from Money Jungle:
Brilliant, uplifting stuff. I'd be uplifted too if I had gotten the hell out of South Africa in the 60s!
South African exiles make happy jazz in England.
Gospel-jazz a la Ayler. I'm really hot and cold on Ware, Parker, and Ibarra, and I don't like Shipp at all, but this is pretty damn great, even if retro.
