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Award Winning Drummer

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Released
  
1959

Release date
  
1959

Label
  
Time Records

Artist
  
Max Roach

Producer
  
Bob Shad

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
November 4, 1958 Capitol Studios, New York City

Award-Winning Drummer (1958)
  
The Many Sides of Max (1959)

Similar
  
Max Roach albums, Jazz albums

Award-Winning Drummer (also released as Max Roach) is an album by American jazz drummer Max Roach featuring a session recorded in 1958 and released on the Time label.

Contents

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars with its review by Ron Wynn stating the group was "among the finest hard bop ensembles around".

Track listing

All compositions by Max Roach except as indicated

  1. "Tuba de Nod" - 3:56
  2. "Milano" (John Lewis) - 5:09
  3. "Variations on the Scene" (George Coleman) - 5:37
  4. "Pies of Quincy" - 3:19
  5. "Old Folks" (Dedette Lee Hill, Willard Robison) - 4:16
  6. "Sadiga" (Coleman) - 6:31
  7. "Gandolfo's Bounce" (Booker Little) - 5:38
  8. "Milano" [alternate take] (Lewis) - 6:33 bonus track on iTunes release
  9. "Old Folks" [alternate take] (Hill, Robison) - 4:31 bonus track on iTunes release
  10. "Gandolfo's Bounce" [alternate take] (Little) - 6:12 bonus track on iTunes release

Personnel

  • Max Roach - drums
  • Booker Little - trumpet
  • George Coleman - tenor saxophone
  • Ray Draper - tuba
  • Art Davis - bass

    • Songs

    1Tuba de Nod3:56
    2Milano5:09
    3Variations on the Scene5:37

    References

    Award-Winning Drummer Wikipedia
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