On the Playlist 5JUL2018…

Maz Roach and in particular his double album "To The Max". I remember when I first encountered this album when I heard the track Ghost Dance on KKJZ radio. It would have been 1994 and I was driving up the PCH near Long Beach in a rental car while on an extended monitoring trip in SoCal. It was a Saturday morning and I was blown away by this song. I had seen Max Roach live several years earlier at the Edmonton Jazz-City Festival in 1982 and was impressed but didn't really get into his music at that point. I had lost track of this tune for several years before coming back to it and re-discovering it and getting a copy of the CD. This album contains a real mix of music that is both studio recorded and live. I still think that Max Roach was the best drummer I have ever seen. 

Max Roach - To the Max!