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In the Light (Max Roach album)

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Released
  
1982

Length
  
41:46

Artist
  
Max Roach

Producer
  
Giovanni Bonandrini

Genre
  
Jazz

Recorded
  
July 22 & 23, 1982

Swish (1982)
  
In the Light (1982)

Release date
  
1982

Label
  
Soul Note

In the Light (1982)
  
Live at Vielharmonie (1983)

Similar
  
It's Christmas Again, Pictures in a Frame, Scott Free

In the Light is an album by American jazz drummer Max Roach recorded in 1982 for the Italian Soul Note label.

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Reception

The Allmusic review by Ron Wynn awarded the album 4 stars stating "This is one of a series of excellent recordings by the Roach 4tet in the early '80s that should be examined as not only excellent works, but perhaps even trend setters for a more progressive concept".

Track listing

All compositions by Max Roach except as indicated
  1. "In the Light" - 8:40
  2. "Straight, No Chaser" (Thelonious Monk) - 7:00
  3. "Ruby, My Dear" (Monk) - 4:53
  4. "Henry Street Blues" - 4:48
  5. "If You Could See Me Now" (Tadd Dameron, Carl Sigman) - 4:27
  6. "Good Bait" (Count Basie, Dameron) - 7:38
  7. "Tricotism" (Oscar Pettiford) - 4:20
  • Recorded at Barigozzi Studio in Milano, Italy on July 22 & 23, 1982

    • Personnel

  • Max Roach - drums
  • Cecil Bridgewater - trumpet, flugelhorn (tracks 1-4, 6 & 7)
  • Odean Pope - tenor saxophone
  • Calvin Hill - bass

    • Songs

    1In The Light8:43
    2Straight - No Chaser7:06
    3Ruby - My Dear4:59

    References

    In the Light (Max Roach album) Wikipedia
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