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The Many Sides of Max

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Released
  
1964

Artist
  
Max Roach

Label
  
Mercury Records

Length
  
31:40

Release date
  
1964

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
January 22, 1959 Fine Recording, New York City

The Many Sides of Max (1959)
  
Rich Versus Roach (1959)

Similar
  
Max Roach albums, Jazz albums

The Many Sides of Max is an album by American jazz drummer Max Roach featuring tracks recorded in 1959 but not released on the Mercury label until 1964.

Contents

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars with its review by Scott Yanow stating "all seven selections on the admittedly brief album (around 31 minutes) are worth hearing".

Track listing

All compositions by Max Roach except as indicated

  1. "Prelude" (Consuela Lee) - 5:06
  2. "Lepa" (Muhal Richard Abrams) - 2:08
  3. "Connie's Bounce" (Lee) - 5:19
  4. "A Little Sweet" - 3:05
  5. "Tympanalli" - 4:52
  6. "Bemsha Swing" (Denzil Best, Thelonious Monk) - 5:26
  7. "There's No You" (Tom Adair, George Durgom, Hal Hopper) - 5:41

Personnel

  • Max Roach - drums
  • Booker Little - trumpet
  • Julian Priester - trombone
  • George Coleman - tenor saxophone
  • Art Davis - bass

    • Songs

    1Prelude5:06
    2Lepa2:08
    3Connie's Bounce5:19

    References

    The Many Sides of Max Wikipedia
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