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Percussion Bitter Sweet

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Released
  
Late 1961

Percussion Bitter Sweet (1961)
  
It's Time (1962)

Release date
  
1961

Label
  
Impulse! Records

Length
  
40:50

Artist
  
Max Roach

Producer
  
Max Roach

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
August 1, 3, 8 & 9, 1961 Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs

Similar
  
Max Roach albums, Jazz albums

Garvey s ghost max roach


Percussion Bitter Sweet is an album by jazz drummer Max Roach recorded in 1961, released on Impulse! Records. It was trumpeter Booker Little's next-to-last recording before his death of uremia in October 1961.

Contents

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Track listing

All compositions by Max Roach, except where noted

  1. "Garvey's Ghost" - 7:53
  2. "Mama" - 4:50
  3. "Tender Warriors" - 6:52
  4. "Praise for a Martyr" - 7:09
  5. "Mendacity" (Chips Bayen, Max Roach) - 8:54
  6. "Man From South Africa" - 5:12

Tracks 1 and 5 recorded on August 1, 1961; #2 and 3 on August 3; #4 on August 8 and #6 on August 9, 1961.

Personnel

  • Booker Little - trumpet
  • Julian Priester - trombone
  • Eric Dolphy - alto saxophone, flute, bass clarinet
  • Clifford Jordan - tenor saxophone
  • Mal Waldron - piano
  • Art Davis - double bass
  • Max Roach - drums, percussion
  • Carlos "Patato" Valdés - congas (1, 3, 6)
  • Eugenio "Totico" Arango (credited as Carlos Eugenio) - cowbell (1, 3, 6)
  • Abbey Lincoln - vocal (1, 5)

    • Production

  • Margo Guryan - liner notes

    • Songs

    1Garvey's Ghost7:54
    2Mama4:51
    3Tender Warriors6:54

    References

    Percussion Bitter Sweet Wikipedia
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