Max Roach

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bandleader composer drummer educator human jazz musician

Max Roach was a pioneering American jazz drummer and composer, renowned as a key architect of bebop and modern jazz rhythm.

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Label	Occurrences
Max Roach canonical	52
Max Roach + 4	1

Statements (52)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	bandleader ⓘ composer ⓘ drummer ⓘ educator ⓘ human ⓘ jazz musician ⓘ
associatedAct	Abbey Lincoln ⓘ Bud Powell ⓘ Charles Mingus ⓘ Charlie Parker ⓘ Clifford Brown ⓘ Coleman Hawkins ⓘ Dizzy Gillespie ⓘ Duke Ellington ⓘ Miles Davis ⓘ Sonny Rollins ⓘ Thelonious Monk ⓘ
awardReceived	MacArthur Fellowship ⓘ NEA Jazz Masters Award ⓘ
burialPlace	Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York City ⓘ surface form: Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York, United States
causeOfDeath	complications of dementia ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1924-01-10 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	2007-08-16 ⓘ
employer	University of Massachusetts Amherst ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Black Americans ⓘ surface form: African American
familyName	Roach ⓘ
fullName	Maxwell Lemuel Roach ⓘ
gender	male ⓘ
genre	avant-garde jazz ⓘ bebop ⓘ hard bop ⓘ jazz ⓘ
givenName	Maxwell ⓘ
instrument	drum set ⓘ
movement	bebop ⓘ American civil rights movement ⓘ surface form: civil rights movement
notableAchievement	key architect of bebop rhythm ⓘ pioneered modern jazz drumming techniques ⓘ
notableWork	Deeds, Not Words ⓘ Jazz in 3/4 Time ⓘ Max Roach self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Max Roach + 4 Members, Don’t Git Weary ⓘ We Insist! Freedom Now Suite ⓘ
occupation	bandleader ⓘ composer ⓘ drummer ⓘ music educator ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Pasquotank County, North Carolina, United States ⓘ
placeOfDeath	New York City ⓘ surface form: New York City, New York, United States
positionHeld	professor of music at University of Massachusetts Amherst ⓘ
residence	Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States ⓘ surface form: Brooklyn, New York, United States

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Charlie Parker → collaboratedWith → Max Roach ⓘ

Duke Ellington → collaboratedWith → Max Roach ⓘ

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this entity surface form: Max Roach + 4

Coleman Hawkins → associatedAct → Max Roach ⓘ

Bird → collaboratedWith → Max Roach ⓘ

subject surface form: Charlie Parker

Ko-Ko → featuresMusician → Max Roach ⓘ

DownBeat Jazz Hall of Fame → notableHonoree → Max Roach ⓘ

Sonny Rollins → associatedAct → Max Roach ⓘ

Dial Records → recordedArtist → Max Roach ⓘ

Now's the Time → firstRecordingPersonnel → Max Roach ⓘ

Duke → associatedAct → Max Roach ⓘ

subject surface form: Duke Ellington

Boys and Girls High School → hasAlumnus → Max Roach ⓘ

Jo Jones → influenced → Max Roach ⓘ

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Bud Powell → associatedAct → Max Roach ⓘ

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Pasquotank County, North Carolina, United States → birthplaceOf → Max Roach ⓘ

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We Insist! Freedom Now Suite → artist → Max Roach ⓘ

We Insist! Freedom Now Suite → primaryArtist → Max Roach ⓘ

We Insist! Freedom Now Suite → performer → Max Roach ⓘ

We Insist! Freedom Now Suite → composer → Max Roach ⓘ

Jazz in 3/4 Time → artist → Max Roach ⓘ

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Deeds, Not Words → artist → Max Roach ⓘ

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Gene Krupa → influenced → Max Roach ⓘ

Maxwell Lemuel Roach → stageName → Max Roach ⓘ

Clifford Brown → collaboratedWith → Max Roach ⓘ

EmArcy Records → notableArtist → Max Roach ⓘ

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Alan Dawson → influencedBy → Max Roach ⓘ

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Coleman Randolph Hawkins → associatedAct → Max Roach ⓘ

Ronnie Boykins → associatedAct → Max Roach ⓘ

Archie Shepp → associatedWith → Max Roach ⓘ

Louis Hayes → influencedBy → Max Roach ⓘ

Tony Allen → influencedBy → Max Roach ⓘ