Award-Winning Drummer

1960 studio album by Max Roach

Award-Winning Drummer

Studio album by

Max Roach

Released| 1960
Recorded| November 4, 1958
Capitol Studios, New York City
Genre| Jazz
Label| Time
T/70003
Producer| Bob Shad
Max Roach chronology
| Deeds, Not Words
(1958)  | Award-Winning Drummer
(1960)  | The Many Sides of Max
(1959)

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Award-Winning Drummer (also released as Max Roach) is an album by American jazz drummer Max Roach featuring a session recorded in 1958 and released on the Time label.[1]

## Reception

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
AllMusic| [2]
DownBeat| [3]
Tom Hull| B+ ()[4]

Allmusic reviewer Ron Wynn stated the group was "among the finest hard bop ensembles around".[2]

## Track listing

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All compositions by Max Roach, except as indicated,

1. "Tuba de Nod" — 3:56
2. "Milano" (John Lewis) — 5:09
3. "Variations on the Scene" (George Coleman) — 5:37
4. "Pies of Quincy" — 3:19
5. "Old Folks" (Dedette Lee Hill, Willard Robison) — 4:16
6. "Sadiga" (Coleman) — 6:31
7. "Gandolfo's Bounce" (Booker Little) — 5:38
8. "Milano" [alternate take] (Lewis) — 6:33 bonus track on iTunes release
9. "Old Folks" [alternate take] (Hill, Robison) — 4:31 bonus track on iTunes release
10. "Gandolfo's Bounce" [alternate take] (Little) — 6:12 bonus track on iTunes release

## Personnel

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* Max Roach — drums
* Booker Little — trumpet
* George Coleman — tenor saxophone
* Ray Draper — tuba
* Art Davis — bass

## References

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1. ^ Max Roach discography accessed September 21, 2012
2. ^ a b Wynn, R. Allmusic Review accessed September 21, 2012
3. ^ DeMichael, Don (14 April 1960). "Max Roach: Award-Winning Drummer". DownBeat. Vol. 27, no. 8\. pp. 34, 36.
4. ^ Hull, Tom (June 2, 2020). "Music Week". Tom Hull – On the Web. Retrieved June 20, 2020.

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Max Roach

Albums|

* The Max Roach Quartet featuring Hank Mobley (1953)
* Max Roach + 4 (1956)
* Jazz in 3/4 Time (1956–57)
* The Max Roach 4 Plays Charlie Parker (1957–58)
* Award-Winning Drummer (1958)
* Booker Little 4 and Max Roach (1958)
* MAX (1958)
* Max Roach + 4 on the Chicago Scene (1958)
* Max Roach + 4 at Newport (1958)
* Max Roach with the Boston Percussion Ensemble (1958)
* Deeds, Not Words (1958)
* Moon Faced and Starry Eyed (with Abbey Lincoln, 1959)
* Quiet as It's Kept (1959)
* Rich Versus Roach (and Buddy Rich, 1959)
* The Many Sides of Max (1959)
* Long as You're Living (1960)
* Parisian Sketches (1960)
* We Insist! (1960)
* Percussion Bitter Sweet (1961)
* It's Time (1962)
* Money Jungle (and Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, 1962)
* Speak, Brother, Speak! (1962)
* The Max Roach Trio Featuring the Legendary Hasaan (and Hasaan Ibn Ali, 1964)
* Drums Unlimited (1965)
* Members, Don't Git Weary (1968)
* Lift Every Voice and Sing (1971)
* Re: Percussion (M'Boom, Strata-East, 1973)
* Birth and Rebirth (and Anthony Braxton, 1978)
* Historic Concerts (and Cecil Taylor, 1979)
* M'Boom (1979)
* One in Two – Two in One (and Anthony Braxton, 1979)
* Pictures in a Frame (1979)
* The Long March (and Archie Shepp, 1979)
* In the Light (1982)
* Live at Vielharmonie (1983)
* Collage (M'Boom, 1984)
* It's Christmas Again (1984)
* Scott Free (1984)
* Survivors (1984)
* Easy Winners (1985)
* Bright Moments (1986)
* Max + Dizzy: Paris 1989 (and Dizzy Gillespie, 1989)
* To the Max! (1990–91)

With Clifford Brown|

* Best Coast Jazz (1954)
* Brown and Roach Incorporated (1954)
* Clifford Brown All Stars (1954)
* Clifford Brown & Max Roach (1954–55)
* Daahoud (1954)
* Jam Session (and Clark Terry, Maynard Ferguson, 1954)
* Clifford Brown with Strings (1955)
* Study in Brown (1955)
* Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street (1956)

Compilations|

* Alone Together: The Best of the Mercury Years (1954–60)

Related articles|

* M'Boom

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Booker Little

Years indicated are for the recording(s), not first release

As leader
or co-leader|

* Booker Little 4 and Max Roach (aka, The Defiant Ones, 1958)
* Booker Little (Time, 1960)
* Far Cry (with Eric Dolphy, 1960)
* At the Five Spot (with Eric Dolphy, 1961)
* Booker Little and Friend (aka, Victory and Sorrow, 1961)
* Out Front (1961)

With
Max Roach|

* Award-Winning Drummer (aka, Max Roach, 1958)
* Deeds, Not Words (1958)
* Max Roach + 4 on the Chicago Scene (1958)
* Max Roach + 4 at Newport (1958)
* The Many Sides of Max (1959)
* We Insist! (1960)
* Percussion Bitter Sweet (1961)

With
others|

* Africa/Brass (John Coltrane, 1961)
* Slide Hampton and His Horn of Plenty (1959)
* Straight Ahead (Abbey Lincoln, 1961)
* Fantastic Frank Strozier (1959–60)

Compilations|

* Alone Together: The Best of the Mercury Years (Max Roach, 1958–59)

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