Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz drummer and composer. A pioneer of bebop, he worked in many other styles of music, and is generally considered one of the most important drummers in history. He worked with many famous jazz musicians, including Clifford Brown, Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Abbey Lincoln, Dinah Washington, Charles Mingus, Billy Eckstine, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Eric Dolphy, Benny Carter, and Booker Little. He also played with his daughter Maxine Roach, a Grammy-nominated violist. He was inducted into the DownBeat Hall of Fame in 1980 and the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1992. In the mid-1950s, Roach co-led a pioneering quintet along with trumpeter Clifford Brown. In 1970, Roach founded the percussion ensemble M'Boom. Description above from the Wikipedia article Max Roach, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2014Max Roach - Full Concert - 08/16/92 - Newport Jazz Festival — Themself
• Behind the Scenes
• The Cosby Show — Dr. Gordon Darton
• 1983Åke Hasselgård story
• 1981Death of a Prophet — Original Music Composer
• 1969Renovación — Music
• 1964Black Sun — Musician
• Ford ever — Music

Appearances as themselves (11)

• 2024Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat — Self (archive footage)
• 2023Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes — Self (archival footage)
• 2021Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell — Self - Jazz Musician (archive footage)
• 2021Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) — Self (archive footage)
• 70 Years of Youth Revolt — Self (archive footage)
• 1993Umbria Jazz Story — himself
• 1982Dizzy's Dream Band — Self
• 1981Max Roach: Live at Blues Alley — Self
• Great Performances — Self
• 1960Jazz on a Summer's Day — Self
• Max Roach Double Quartet Stuttgart 1990 — Self