Max Roach

Artist:  Max Roach
Birth Name:  Maxwell Lemuel Roach
Born:  January 10, 1924.  Pasquotank County, North Carolina, USA
Died:  August 16, 2007 (Aged 83).  New York City, New York, USA
Genre:  Jazz, Bebop, Hard Bop, Post Bop, Drum Jazz
Occupation:  Musician, Composer
Instruments:  Drums, Percussion, Piano

Max Roach was an American Jazz Drummer and Composer.  A pioneer of Bebop, he worked in many other styles of music.  He worked with many famous Jazz Musicians, including Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Thelonious  Monk, Abbey Lincoln, Dinah Washington, Charles Mingus, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Eric Dolphy and many more!.  He was inducted into the DownBeat Hall Of Fame in 1980 and the Modern Drummer Hall Of Fame in 1992.

Title:  Quiet As Its Kept  (2018)
Genre:  Jazz, Bebop, Hard Bop, Post Bop, Drum Jazz
Label:  Essential Jazz Classics
Rating:   *****

Tracks:

 1.  Quiet As It's Kept  (6:13)
 2.  To Lady  (6:09)
 3.  Lotus Blossom  (5:36)
 4.  As Long As You're Living  (5:59)
 5.  The More I See You  (4:05)
 6.  Juliano  (5:45)
 7.  Parisian Sketches:    (17:12)
      a)  The Tower
      b)  The Champs
      c)  The Caves
      d)  The Left Bank
      e)  The Arch

Bonus Tracks:

 8.  Nica  (4:49)
 9.  Petit Dejeuner  (4:07)
10. Un Noveau Complet  (3:25)
11.  Liberte    (6:25)

Personnel:

Max Roach:  Drums
Tommy Turrentine:  Trumpet
Julian Priester:  Trombone
Stanley Turrentine:  Tenor Saxophone
Bob Boswell:  Bass

Quiet As Its Kept is an album by Max Roach, originally released in 1960 by Mercury Records, remastered and reissued on August 13, 2018 by Essential Jazz Classics, featuring Stanley Turrentine, Tommy Turrentine, Julian Priester and Bob Boswell.