Watching drummer Roach in action would melt your soul

Some of Max Roach’s ideas had been viewed as untenable in jazz music due to their unorthodox or eccentric instrumentation

Drummer Max Roach was one of the pioneers of bebop. As a leading figure in the subsequent cross-breeding of jazz with other musical idioms, he earned himself eminence as a formidable creative artist compared only to the best in the world of jazz.

Despite all these acclaims, he was among legendary musicians who faced both social and financial challenges, including spiritual bigotry, but withered the storms and continued to produce music performances that set the standard for the rest in the field to try and achieve.