Inside the iconic DJ's annual retreat, where music legends and legends-in-the-making spend three days bonding at his Delaware ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Max Roach’s unerring sense of time, dynamic interplay and melodic invention gave drum virtuosity another ...

If you know people who play drums, want to play drums, or want to play drums better, “Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes” could effect a turning point in their lives. Watching its subject play ...

Four students from Norwalk, Lincoln and ADM high schools are nominated to be next week's Des Moines Register Student of the ...

Documentary 'Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat' centers on how jazz musicians like Louis Armstrong were used by the CIA to deflect ...

The events surrounding the Democratic Republic of Congo’s declaration of independence and the subsequent assassination of prime minister Patrice Lumumba are laid out with cool precision to a ...

There was nothing easy, or inevitable, about Roach’s rise to the top as a celebrity stylist. Growing up in South Side Chicago ...

Born Sept. 27, 1924, Powell helped set the style for jazz piano after WWII. While earlier pianists played busy bass patterns, he helped establish a more fragmented, punctuating role for the left hand.

Record Store Day’s lineup of releases for its annual adjunct Black Friday event has been announced, with more than 150 titles ...

Max Roach has written 1 shows including The Glorious Monster in the Bell of the Horn (Composer). Get Max Roach Email Alerts Be the first to get news, photos, videos & more.

The Drum Waltzes explores the life and music of legendary drummer, activist Max Roach, his creative peaks, personal struggles and re-inventions from the Jim Crow to Civil Rights eras, from heady ...

"It isn't just about jazz, it is jazz." Ready for a journey back in time? Kino Lorber has debuted an official US trailer for the acclaimed musical documentary film titled Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat, ...