Re: [Finale] RIP Max Roach

2007-08-17 Thread Carl Dershem
Chuck Israels wrote: I had the pleasure of knowing Max. We met sometime around 1957 when his quintet with Clifford Brown played at the Teenage Jazz Club at Storyville in Boston (I was a teenager), then again at the Lenox School of Jazz in 1960. I was with Max in Sandpoint, Idaho on the day he

Re: [Finale] RIP Max Roach

2007-08-17 Thread Christopher Smith
On Aug 17, 2007, at 8:55 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: I'm a bit surprised no one has yet mentioned that we've just lost one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. If anyone is interested, I have a tribute to Max Roach up on my blog, and also a collection of reactions from around the

Re: [Finale] RIP Max Roach

2007-08-17 Thread Chuck Israels
I had the pleasure of knowing Max. We met sometime around 1957 when his quintet with Clifford Brown played at the Teenage Jazz Club at Storyville in Boston (I was a teenager), then again at the Lenox School of Jazz in 1960. I was with Max in Sandpoint, Idaho on the day he received a MacAr

[Finale] RIP Max Roach

2007-08-17 Thread Darcy James Argue
I'm a bit surprised no one has yet mentioned that we've just lost one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. If anyone is interested, I have a tribute to Max Roach up on my blog, and also a collection of reactions from around the blogosphere. http://secretsociety.typepad.com/darcy_jam