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Easy Winners (album)

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Released
  
1985

Length
  
38:05

Artist
  
Max Roach

Producer
  
Max Roach

Genre
  
Jazz

Recorded
  
January 4, 7 & 8, 1985

Easy Winners (1985)
  
Bright Moments (1986)

Release date
  
1985

Label
  
Soul Note

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Easy Winners is an album by American jazz drummer Max Roach recorded in 1985 for the Italian Soul Note label.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4½ stars stating "The wide variety of colors and the consistently-strong improvisations make this a highly recommended set of stirring music".

Track listing

  1. "Bird Says" (Cecil Bridgewater) - 12:48
  2. "Sis" (Odean Pope) - 6:33
  3. "A Little Booker" (Max Roach) - 13:50
  4. "Easy Winners" (Scott Joplin) - 4:54
  • Recorded at the Platinum Factory in Brooklyn, New York on January 4, 7 & 8, 1985

    • Personnel

  • Max Roach - drums
  • Cecil Bridgewater - trumpet
  • Odean Pope - tenor saxophone
  • Cecelia Hobbs, John McLaughlin Williams - violin
  • Maxine Roach - viola
  • Eileen Folson - cello
  • Tyrone Brown - electric bass
  • Ray Mantilla - percussion (track 1)

    • Songs

    1Bird Says12:54
    2Sis6:38
    3A Little Booker13:56

    References

    Easy Winners (album) Wikipedia
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