Speak, Brother, Speak!
1963 live album by Max Roach
Speak, Brother, Speak! | ||||
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Live album by Max Roach | ||||
Released | 1963 | |||
Recorded | October 27, 1962 | |||
Venue | The Jazz Workshop, San Francisco, California | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 45:33 | |||
Label | Fantasy LP 6007 | |||
Max Roach chronology | ||||
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Speak, Brother, Speak! is a live album by American jazz drummer Max Roach featuring performances recorded in San Francisco in 1962 and released by the Fantasy label.[1]
Reception
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [2] |
Down Beat | [3] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [4] |
Tom Hull | A−[5] |
Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars stating: "The music is somewhere between hard bop and the avant-garde, and the musicians really push each other, although the results are not quite essential. Clifford Jordan fans in particular will find this to be an interesting set".[2]
Track listing
All compositions by Max Roach except as indicated
- "Speak, Brother, Speak" (Clifford Jordan, Eddie Khan, Max Roach, Mal Waldron) - 25:03
- "A Variation" - 20:30
Personnel
- Max Roach - drums
- Clifford Jordan - tenor saxophone
- Mal Waldron - piano
- Eddie Khan - bass
References
- ^ Max Roach discography accessed September 24, 2012
- ^ a b Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed September 24, 2012
- ^ Down Beat: August 15, 1963 vol. 30, no. 23
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1220. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ Hull, Tom (June 2, 2020). "Music Week". Tom Hull – On the Web. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
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- The Max Roach Quartet featuring Hank Mobley (1953)
- Max Roach + 4 (1956)
- Jazz in 3/4 Time (1956–57)
- The Max Roach 4 Plays Charlie Parker (1957–58)
- Award-Winning Drummer (1958)
- Booker Little 4 and Max Roach (1958)
- MAX (1958)
- Max Roach + 4 on the Chicago Scene (1958)
- Max Roach + 4 at Newport (1958)
- Max Roach with the Boston Percussion Ensemble (1958)
- Deeds, Not Words (1958)
- Moon Faced and Starry Eyed (with Abbey Lincoln, 1959)
- Quiet as It's Kept (1959)
- Rich Versus Roach (and Buddy Rich, 1959)
- The Many Sides of Max (1959)
- Long as You're Living (1960)
- Parisian Sketches (1960)
- We Insist! (1960)
- Percussion Bitter Sweet (1961)
- It's Time (1962)
- Money Jungle (and Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, 1962)
- Speak, Brother, Speak! (1962)
- The Max Roach Trio Featuring the Legendary Hasaan (and Hasaan Ibn Ali, 1964)
- Drums Unlimited (1965)
- Members, Don't Git Weary (1968)
- Lift Every Voice and Sing (1971)
- Re: Percussion (M'Boom, Strata-East, 1973)
- Birth and Rebirth (and Anthony Braxton, 1978)
- Historic Concerts (and Cecil Taylor, 1979)
- M'Boom (1979)
- One in Two – Two in One (and Anthony Braxton, 1979)
- Pictures in a Frame (1979)
- The Long March (and Archie Shepp, 1979)
- In the Light (1982)
- Live at Vielharmonie (1983)
- Collage (M'Boom, 1984)
- It's Christmas Again (1984)
- Scott Free (1984)
- Survivors (1984)
- Easy Winners (1985)
- Bright Moments (1986)
- Max + Dizzy: Paris 1989 (and Dizzy Gillespie, 1989)
- To the Max! (1990–91)
- Best Coast Jazz (1954)
- Brown and Roach Incorporated (1954)
- Clifford Brown All Stars (1954)
- Clifford Brown & Max Roach (1954–55)
- Daahoud (1954)
- Jam Session (and Clark Terry, Maynard Ferguson, 1954)
- Clifford Brown with Strings (1955)
- Study in Brown (1955)
- Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street (1956)
- Alone Together: The Best of the Mercury Years (1954–60)