• Abbey Lincoln
  Anna Marie Wooldridge (August 6, 1930 – August 14, 2010), better known by her stage name Abbey Lincoln, was a jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress. Lincoln was unusual in that she wrote and performed her own compositions, expanding the expectations of jazz audiences.
  http://wn.com/Abbey_Lincoln
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  Abraham Lincoln
  Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union, ending slavery, and rededicating the nation to nationalism, equal rights, liberty and democracy. Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, he was mostly self-educated and became a country lawyer, an Illinois state legislator, and a one-term member of the United States House of Representatives, but failed in two attempts at a seat in the United States Senate. He was an affectionate, though often absent, husband, and father of four children.
  http://wn.com/Abraham_Lincoln
• African Americans
  http://wn.com/African_Americans
• African-American
  http://wn.com/African-American
• Al Cohn
  Al Cohn (Brooklyn, NY, 11.24.1925-Stroudsburg, Pennsylvanie, 02.15.1988) was an American jazz saxophonist and arranger/composer.
  http://wn.com/Al_Cohn
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  Anthony Braxton
  Anthony Braxton (born June 4, 1945) is an American composer, saxophonist, clarinettist, flautist, pianist, and philosopher. Braxton has released well over 100 albums since the 1960s. Among the array of instruments he plays are the flute; the sopranino, soprano, C-melody, F mezzo-soprano, E-flat alto, baritone, bass, and contrabass saxophones; and the E-flat, B-flat, and contrabass clarinets.
  http://wn.com/Anthony_Braxton
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  Archie Shepp
  Archie Shepp (born May 24, 1937) is a prominent African-American jazz saxophonist. Shepp is best known for his passionately Afrocentric music of the late 1960s, which focused on highlighting the injustices faced by the African-Americans, as well as for his work with the New York Contemporary Five, Horace Parlan, and his collaborations with his "New Thing" contemporaries, most notably Cecil Taylor and John Coltrane.
  http://wn.com/Archie_Shepp
• Art Blakey
  Arthur "Art" Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990), known later as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, was an American jazz drummer and bandleader.
  http://wn.com/Art_Blakey
• Booker Little
  Booker Little, Jr (April 2, 1938 – October 5, 1961) was an American jazz trumpeter and composer.
  http://wn.com/Booker_Little
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  Brixton
  Brixton is a district in south London, England, in the London Borough of Lambeth. It is miles south south-east of Charing Cross. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London.
  http://wn.com/Brixton
• Bud Powell
  Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell (September 27, 1924 – July 31, 1966) was an American Jazz pianist. Powell has been described as one of "the two most significant pianists of the style of modern jazz that came to be known as bop", the other being his friend and contemporary Thelonious Monk. Along with Monk, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, Powell was a key player in the history of bebop, and his virtuosity as a pianist led many to call him "the Charlie Parker of the piano".
  http://wn.com/Bud_Powell
• Bud Shank
  Clifford Everett "Bud" Shank, Jr. (May 27, 1926 – April 2, 2009) was an American alto saxophonist and flautist. He played flute in Stan Kenton's Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra, on various recording sessions including , and occasionally in live performances (as with The L.A. Four) until he gave it up later in his career to focus exclusively on the alto saxophone. He also recorded one album playing only tenor saxophone.
  http://wn.com/Bud_Shank
• Buddy Rich
  Bernard "Buddy" Rich (September 30, 1917 – April 2, 1987) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. Rich was billed as "the world's greatest drummer" and was known for his virtuosic technique, power, groove, and speed.
  http://wn.com/Buddy_Rich
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  Calvin Hill
  Calvin G. Hill (born January 2, 1947 in Baltimore, Maryland) is a retired American football running back who had a 12-year NFL career from 1969 to 1981. He played for the Dallas Cowboys, Washington Redskins and Cleveland Browns. In 1975 he moved to the World Football League to play for The Hawaiians where he carried the ball 49 times for 218 yards and no touchdowns in 1975.
  http://wn.com/Calvin_Hill
• Cecil Bridgewater
  Cecil Bridgewater (b. Oct. 10, 1942) is an American hard bop jazz trumpeter.
  http://wn.com/Cecil_Bridgewater
• Cecil Payne
  Cecil Payne (December 14, 1922 – November 27, 2007) was a jazz baritone saxophonist born in Brooklyn, NY. Payne also played the alto saxophone and flute. He played with other jazz greats, in particular Dizzy Gillespie and Randy Weston, in addition to his solo work as bandleader.
  http://wn.com/Cecil_Payne
• Charles Mingus
  Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist.
  http://wn.com/Charles_Mingus
• Charlie Mingus
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  Charlie Parker
  Charles Parker, Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), famously called Bird, or Yardbird was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.
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  Clark Terry
  Clark Terry (born December 14, 1920) is an American swing and bop trumpeter, a pioneer of the fluegelhorn in jazz, educator, and NEA Jazz Masters inductee.
  http://wn.com/Clark_Terry
• Clifford Brown
  Clifford Brown (October 30, 1930 – June 26, 1956), aka "Brownie," was an influential and highly rated American jazz trumpeter. He died aged 25, leaving behind only four years' worth of recordings. Nonetheless, he had a considerable influence on later jazz trumpet players, including Donald Byrd, Lee Morgan, Booker Little, Freddie Hubbard, Valery Ponomarev, and Wynton Marsalis.
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  Coleman Hawkins
  Coleman Randolph Hawkins (November 21, 1904 – May 19, 1969) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Hawkins was the first important jazz musician to use the instrument. As Joachim E. Berendt explained, "there were some tenor players before him, but the instrument was not an acknowledged jazz horn". While Hawkins is most strongly associated with the swing music and big band era, he had a role in the development of bebop in the 1940s,
  http://wn.com/Coleman_Hawkins
• Connie Crothers
  Connie Crothers (born May 2, 1941 in Palo Alto, California) is a jazz pianist. She majored in music at the University of California, Berkeley before becoming a student of Lennie Tristano. After his death she became President of the Lennie Tristano Jazz Foundation. She is also known for works done with Max Roach in the 1980s, such as the album Swish.
  http://wn.com/Connie_Crothers
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  David Paterson
  David Alexander Paterson (born May 20, 1954) is the 55th and current Governor of New York. He is the first governor of New York of African American heritage and also the second legally blind governor of any U.S. state after Bob C. Riley, who was Acting Governor of Arkansas for 11 days in January 1975.
  http://wn.com/David_Paterson
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  Delfeayo Marsalis
  Delfeayo Marsalis (Born July 28, 1965 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American jazz trombonist and record producer.
  http://wn.com/Delfeayo_Marsalis
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  Dizzy Gillespie
  John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer, and composer.
  http://wn.com/Dizzy_Gillespie
• Don Byas
  Carlos Wesley "Don" Byas (born October 21, 1912 in Muskogee, Oklahoma – died August 24, 1972 in Amsterdam, Netherlands) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, long-resident in Europe.
  http://wn.com/Don_Byas
• Duke Ellington
  Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was a composer, pianist, and big band leader.
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  Fab Five Freddy
  Fred Brathwaite (born 1959), more popularly known as Fab 5 Freddy, is an American Hip hop historian, Hip hop pioneer and former graffiti artist. He was active in New York City in the 1970s and early 1980s, and later hosted the first hip-hop music video show on TV, "Yo! MTV Raps".
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  Freddie Hubbard
  Frederick Dewayne "Freddie" Hubbard (April 7, 1938 – December 29, 2008) was an American jazz trumpeter. He was known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop and post bop styles from the early 1960s and on. His unmistakable and influential tone contributed to new perspectives for modern jazz and bebop.
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  Freddie Waits
  Freddie Waits (born Frederick Douglas Waits on April 27, 1943 in Jackson, Mississippi; died November 18, 1989 in New York City) was a hard bop and post-bop drummer.
  http://wn.com/Freddie_Waits
• George Coleman
  George Edward Coleman (born March 8, 1935 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American hard bop saxophonist, bandleader, and composer, known chiefly for his work with Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock in the 1960s.
  http://wn.com/George_Coleman
• George Wallington
  George Wallington (born Giacinto Figlia, October 27, 1924, Palermo, Sicily - Cape Coral, Miami, February 15, 1993) was a highly regarded American bop pianist and composer.
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• Hank Jones
  Henry "Hank" Jones (July 31, 1918 – May 16, 2010) was an American jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer. Critics and musicians described Jones as eloquent, lyrical, and impeccable. In 1989, The National Endowment for the Arts honored him with the NEA Jazz Masters Award. He was also honored in 2003 with the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) Jazz Living Legend Award. In 2008, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. On April 13, 2009, the University of Hartford presented Jones with a Doctorate Degree for his musical accomplishments.
  http://wn.com/Hank_Jones
• Harold Land
  Harold de Vance Land (February 18, 1928 – July 27, 2001) was an American hard bop and post-bop tenor saxophonist. Land evolved his hard bop playing with the Max Roach/Clifford Brown band into a personal, modern style. His tone was strong and emotional, yet displayed a certain fragility that made him easy to recognize.
  http://wn.com/Harold_Land
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  Harriet Tubman
  Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross; c. 1820 or 1821 – March 10, 1913) was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War. After escaping from slavery, into which she was born, she made thirteen missions to rescue more than 70 slaves using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. She later helped John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry, and in the post-war era struggled for women's suffrage.
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  Hazel Scott
  Hazel Dorothy Scott (June 11, 1920 – October 2, 1981) was a jazz and classical pianist and singer.
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• Herbie Nichols
  Herbie Nichols (3 January 1919, New York City – 12 April 1963, New York City), was an American jazz pianist and composer of the jazz standard "Lady Sings the Blues". Obscure during his lifetime, he is now highly regarded by many musicians and critics.
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• Horace Silver
  Horace Silver (born September 2, 1928), born Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva in Norwalk, Connecticut, is an American jazz pianist and composer.
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  Howard McGhee
  Howard McGhee (March 6, 1918, Tulsa, Oklahoma – July 17, 1987, New York City) was one of the very first bebop jazz trumpeters, together with Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro and Idrees Sulieman. He was known for lightning-fast fingers and very high notes. What is generally not known is the influence that he had on younger hard bop trumpeters, together with Fats Navarro.
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• J.J. Johnson
  http://wn.com/JJ_Johnson
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  James Spaulding
  James Spaulding (born July 30, 1937 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is a jazz alto saxophonist and flautist. [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql;=11:fifoxqy5ldae~T1 Allmusic]}
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• Joe Chambers
  Joe Chambers (born June 25, 1942) is an American jazz drummer, pianist, Vibraphonist and composer most notable for his work with Wayne Shorter on the album ''Adam's Apple''. He attended the Philadelphia Conservatory for one year. In the 1960s and 70s Chambers gigged with many high-profile artists such as Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, Lou Donaldson, Chick Corea, Freddie Hubbard, Jimmy Giuffre and Bobby Hutcherson. Other artists Joe Chambers has worked with in his career include Andrew Hill, Archie Shepp, Miles Davis, David Murray, Joe Henderson, Franck Amsallem and Max Roach. He has been a member of several incarnations of Roach's M'Boom percussion ensemble.
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• Joe Holiday
  Joseph Befumo, better known as Joe Holiday (born May 10, 1925), is an American jazz saxophonist born in Sicily.
  http://wn.com/Joe_Holiday
• Joe Wilder
  Joe Wilder (born February 22, 1922 in Colwyn, Pennsylvania) is an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He best known for his beautiful tone and lyrical style.
  http://wn.com/Joe_Wilder
• John Lewis (pianist)
  John Aaron Lewis (LaGrange, Illinois, May 3, 1920 – New York City, March 29, 2001) was an American jazz pianist and composer best known as the musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet.
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  Johnny Griffin
  John Arnold Griffin III (April 24, 1928 – July 25, 2008) was an American bop and hard bop tenor saxophonist.
  http://wn.com/Johnny_Griffin
• Jymie Merritt
  Jymie Merritt (born 3 May 1926) is an American jazz double-bassist.
  http://wn.com/Jymie_Merritt
• Kenny Clarke
  Kenny Clarke (born Kenneth Spearman Clarke, nicknamed "Klook", and later known as Liaqat Ali Salaam, on January 9, 1914 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-died January 26, 1985 in Montreuil-sous-bois, France) was a jazz drummer and an early innovator of the bebop style of drumming. As the house drummer at Minton's Playhouse in the early 1940s, he participated in the after hours jams that led to the birth of Be-Bop, which in turn led to modern jazz. While in New York, he played with the major innovators of the emerging bop style, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Curly Russell and others, as well as musicians of the prior generation, including Sidney Bechet.
  http://wn.com/Kenny_Clarke
• Kenny Dorham
  McKinley Howard (Kenny) Dorham (August 30, 1924 - December 5, 1972) was an American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer born in Fairfield, Texas. Dorham's talent is frequently lauded by critics and other musicians, but he never received the kind of attention from the jazz establishment that many of his peers did. For this reason, his name has become (in the words of writer Gary Giddins) "virtually synonymous with underrated." He also composed the jazz standard "Blue Bossa," which appears on Joe Henderson's album Page One.
  http://wn.com/Kenny_Dorham
• Mal Waldron
  Malcolm Earl Waldron (August 16, 1925 – December 2, 2002) was an American jazz and world music pianist and composer, born in New York City.
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  Malcolm X
  Malcolm X (; May 19, 1925 February 21, 1965), born Malcolm Little and also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (), was an African-American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist. To his admirers, he was a courageous advocate for the rights of African Americans, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans. His detractors accused him of preaching racism, black supremacy, antisemitism, and violence. He has been described as one of the greatest, and most influential, African Americans in history. In 1998, Time named The Autobiography of Malcolm X one of the ten most influential nonfiction books of the 20th century.
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• Martin Luther King
  http://wn.com/Martin_Luther_King
• Miles Davis
  Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.
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  Neil Peart
  Neil Peart () OC, (born September 12, 1952) is a Canadian musician and author. He is the drummer and primary lyricist for the rock band Rush.
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• Odean Pope
  Odean Pope (b. October 24, 1938, Ninety Six, South Carolina) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist.
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  Paul Robeson
  Paul LeRoy Bustill Robeson (April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was an American bass-baritone concert singer and film actor, who became noted for his wide-ranging social justice activism. A forerunner of the civil rights movement, Robeson was also an All-American athlete, lawyer, writer, trade unionist, peace activist, Phi Beta Kappa Society laureate, and a recipient of the Spingarn Medal and Stalin Peace Prize. Robeson achieved international notoriety for both his artistic accomplishments and his outspoken radical beliefs, which largely clashed with the Jim Crow climate of the pre-civil rights United States. As a result, he became a prime target of the political right during the McCarthyist era. Despite being one of the most internationally famous cultural figures of the 20th century, persecution by the US government and media virtually erased Robeson from mainstream US culture and subsequent interpretations of US history; including civil rights and black history.
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• Phil Schaap
  Phil Schaap (born April 6, 1951) is an American jazz disc jockey, historian, archivist and producer. He hosts a daily morning radio program on 89.9 FM New York, WKCR, the radio station of Columbia University, his alma mater, in New York City. The show, called Birdflight, is broadcast from 8:20 am–9:30 am on weekdays and devoted to the music of Charlie Parker. Birdflight has been running for over twenty-six years. Schaap also hosts the weekly Traditions In Swing, on Saturday evenings from 6-9 pm, which likewise has been on the air for thirty-two years. He is a cousin of sports journalist Dick Schaap.
  http://wn.com/Phil_Schaap
• Randy Weston
  Randy Weston (born April 6, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York), is an American jazz pianist and composer, of Jamaican parentage.
  http://wn.com/Randy_Weston
• Ray Bryant
  Ray Bryant (Raphael Homer Bryant) (born December 24, 1931 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American Jazz pianist and composer.
  http://wn.com/Ray_Bryant
• Ray Mantilla
  Raymond Mantilla (b. June 22, 1934, in New York City, New York) is an American jazz drummer. He has played as a session musician and toured with some of the most significant jazz musicians of his time. Mantilla has been bandleader of his own ensembles and was a founding member of the percussion ensemble M'Boom, with Max Roach.
  http://wn.com/Ray_Mantilla
• Richie Powell
  Richie Powell (September 5, 1931 – June 26, 1956) was an American bebop jazz pianist.
  http://wn.com/Richie_Powell
• Roland Alexander
  Roland Alexander (September 25, 1935 – June 14, 2006) was an American post-bop jazz musician from Boston, Massachusetts.
  http://wn.com/Roland_Alexander
• Ronnie Mathews
  Ronnie Mathews (December 2, 1935 in New York City – June 28, 2008 in Brooklyn) was a jazz pianist primarily known for his work with other musicians, including Max Roach from 1963 to 1968 and Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. He acted as lead in recording from 1963 and 1978 - 1979. His most recent work was in 2008, as both a mentor and musician with "Generations," a group of stalwart jazz musicians headed by veteran drummer Jimmy Cobb. He contributed two new compositions to the album that was released by San Francisco State University's International Center for the Arts on September 15, 2008.
  http://wn.com/Ronnie_Mathews
• Roy Brooks
  Roy Brooks (March 9, 1938 – November 15, 2005) was an American hard bop jazz drummer.
  http://wn.com/Roy_Brooks
• Slide Hampton
  Locksley Wellington "Slide" Hampton (born April 21, 1932) is an American jazz trombonist, composer and arranger.
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• Sonny Clark
  Conrad Yeatis "Sonny" Clark (July 21, 1931 – January 13, 1963) was an American jazz pianist who mainly worked in the hard bop idiom.
  http://wn.com/Sonny_Clark
• Sonny Greer
  Sonny Greer (13 December 1895–23 March 1982) was an American jazz drummer, best known for his work with Duke Ellington.
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  Sonny Rollins
  Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7, 1930 in New York City) is a Grammy-winning American jazz tenor saxophonist. Rollins is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. A number of his compositions, including "St. Thomas", "Oleo", "Doxy", and "Airegin", have become jazz standards.
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• Sonny Stitt
  Edward "Sonny" Stitt (b. February 2, 1924, Boston, Massachusetts – d. July 22, 1982, Washington, D.C.) was an American jazz saxophonist of the bebop/hard bop idiom. He was also one of the most well-documented saxophonists of his generation, recording over 100 albums in his lifetime. He was nicknamed the "Lone Wolf" by jazz critic Dan Morgenstern in tribute to his relentless touring and his devotion to jazz. He is considered the greatest disciple of Charlie Parker. Although his playing was at first heavily inspired by Charlie Parker and Lester Young, Stitt eventually developed his own style, one which influenced John Coltrane. Stitt was especially effective with blues and with ballad pieces such as "Skylark".
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• Stan Getz
  Stanley Gayetzky or Stanley Gayetsky (February 2, 1927 – June 6, 1991), usually known by his stage name Stan Getz, was an American jazz saxophone player. Getz was known as "The Sound" because of his warm, lyrical tone, his prime influence being the wispy, mellow tone of his idol, Lester Young.
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• Stan Levey
  Stan Levey (April 5, 1926 — April 19, 2005) was an American jazz drummer. Born in Philadelphia, Levey is considered one of the earliest bebop drummers, one of the very few white drummers involved in the formative years of bebop and accepted as one of bop's most important drummers, along with Kenny Clarke and Max Roach. He played in Philadelphia with Dizzy Gillespie's group in 1942, at the age of 16. Soon after he went to New York, where he and Dizzy worked on 52nd Street with Charlie Parker and Oscar Pettiford.
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• Stanley Turrentine
  Stanley William Turrentine, also known as "Mr. T" or "The Sugar Man", (April 5, 1934 – September 12, 2000) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql;=11:hifqxqy5ldde~T1 Allmusic]
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• Steve Turre
  Steve Turre (born September 12, 1948 in Omaha, Nebraska) is an internationally renowned trombonist, recording artist, arranger, and educator. In 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002 and 2006 he won the Down Beat Reader's Poll for best trombonist.
  http://wn.com/Steve_Turre
• Thad Jones
  Thaddeus Joseph Jones (March 28, 1923 – August 21, 1986) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader.
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  Thelonious Monk
  Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer considered "one of the giants of American music". Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "Epistrophy", "'Round Midnight", "Blue Monk", "Straight, No Chaser" and "Well, You Needn't". Monk is the second most recorded jazz composer after Duke Ellington, which is particularly remarkable as Ellington composed over 1,000 songs while Monk wrote about 70.
  http://wn.com/Thelonious_Monk
• Tommy Turrentine
  Thomas Walter Turrentine, Jr. (April 22, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – May 15, 1997) was a swing and hard bop trumpeter of the 1940s to 1960s, the older brother of saxophonist Stanley Turrentine.[http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql;=11:jifqxqy5ldde~T1 Allmusic biography]
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• Avery County
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• Bedford-Stuyvesant
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  Brixton
  Brixton is a district in south London, England, in the London Borough of Lambeth. It is miles south south-east of Charing Cross. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London.
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• Broadway (Manhattan)
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  Bronx
  The Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City. It is also, as Bronx County, the last of the 62 counties of New York State to be incorporated. Located north of Manhattan and Queens, and south of Westchester County, the Bronx is the only borough located primarily on the mainland. In 2010, the Census Bureau estimated that the borough's population on July 1, 2009 was 1,397,287, inhabiting a land area of . This makes the Bronx the fourth-most-populated of the five boroughs, the fourth-largest in land area, and the third-highest in density of population.
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• Brooklyn, New York
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  Great Dismal Swamp
  The Great Dismal Swamp is a marshy area on the Coastal Plain of southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina between Norfolk, Virginia, and Elizabeth City, North Carolina in the United States. It is located in parts of southern Chesapeake and Suffolk in Virginia, as well as northern Gates, Pasquotank, and Camden Counties in North Carolina. It is a southern swamp, one of many along the Atlantic Ocean's coast including the Everglades and the Big Cypress Swamp in Florida, the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia, the Congaree Swamp and Four Holes swamps of South Carolina, and some of the Carolina bays in the Carolinas and Georgia. Along the eastern edge runs the Dismal Swamp Canal, completed in 1805.
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• 
  Japan
  Japan (日本 Nihon or Nippon), officially the State of Japan ( or Nihon-koku), is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. The characters that make up Japan's name mean "sun-origin" (because it lies to the east of nearby countries), which is why Japan is sometimes referred to as the "Land of the Rising Sun".
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• Lambeth
  Lambeth is a district of south London, England, and part of the London Borough of Lambeth. It is situated southeast of Charing Cross.
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  New York
  New York (; locally or ) is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east. The state has a maritime border with Rhode Island east of Long Island, as well as an international border with the Canadian provinces of Ontario to the north and west, and Quebec to the north. New York is often referred to as New York State to distinguish it from New York City.
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  North Carolina
  North Carolina () is a state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the Southern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte. North Carolina is now ranked as one of the top 3 leading States for Green Technology, Bio-Chemical Engineering, Medical Sciences, and Computer Engineering through the long-range research and development programs of Research Triangle Park (RTP), UNC Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State .
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• NY
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  United States
  The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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• Abdullah Ibrahim
• Abraham Lincoln
• African Americans
• African-American
• Al Cohn
• Anthony Braxton
• Archie Shepp
• Art Blakey
• Avery County
• bebop
• Bedford-Stuyvesant
• Birth and Rebirth
• Birth of the Cool
• Booker Little
• Breakdance
• Brilliant Corners
• Brixton
• Broadway (Manhattan)
• Bronx
• Brooklyn, New York
• Bud Powell
• Bud Shank
• Buddy Rich
• bugle (instrument)
• Calvin Hill
• Cecil Bridgewater
• Cecil Payne
• Cecil Taylor
• Charles Mingus
• Charlie Mingus
• Charlie Parker
• Chattahoochee Red
• Clark Terry
• Clifford Brown
• Coleman Hawkins
• composer
• Conception (album)
• Connie Crothers
• CUNY
• cymbal
• Daahoud
• David Paterson
• Debut Records
• Deeds, Not Words
• Delfeayo Marsalis
• Dinah Washington
• Discogs
• Dizzy Gillespie
• Don Byas
• Drum kit
• drummer
• Duke Ellington
• Easy Winners (album)
• Eileen Folson
• EmArcy
• EmArcy Records
• Fab Five Freddy
• Fluid Records
• Freddie Hubbard
• Freddie Waits
• George Coleman
• George Wallington
• Gil Melle
• Gospel music
• Great Dismal Swamp
• Hank Jones
• hard bop
• Harold Land
• Harriet Tubman
• Hasaan ibn Ali
• Hazel Scott
• Herbie Nichols
• hip hop
• Historic Concerts
• Horace Silver
• Howard McGhee
• hydrocephalus
• Impulse! Records
• It's Christmas Again
• J.J. Johnson
• James Spaulding
• Japan
• Jazz
• Jazz at Massey Hall
• Jazz Contrasts
• Jazz in ¾ Time
• Joe Chambers
• Joe Holiday
• Joe Wilder
• John Dennis
• John Lewis (pianist)
• Johnny Griffin
• Jymie Merritt
• Kenny Clarke
• Kenny Dorham
• Kit Fitzgerald
• Lambeth
• Live at Vielharmonie
• M'Boom
• M'Boom (album)
• MacArthur Foundation
• Mainstream Records
• Mal Waldron
• Malcolm X
• Martin Luther King
• Max Roach + 4
• Medgar Evers College
• melody
• Miles Davis
• Money Jungle
• Neil Peart
• New York
• New York City
• North Carolina
• NY
• Odean Pope
• orchestras
• Oscar Brown Jr.
• Out Front
• Paris Blues
• Pasquotank County
• Paul Robeson
• percussionist
• Percy Heath
• Phil Schaap
• Pictures in a Frame
• Randy Weston
• rapper
• Ray Bryant
• Ray Mantilla
• Rich Versus Roach
• Richie Powell
• Roland Alexander
• Ronnie Mathews
• Roy Brooks
• Rush (band)
• Sam Shepard
• Savoy Records
• Saxophone Colossus
• Scott Free (album)
• Slide Hampton
• Sonny Clark
• Sonny Clark Trio
• Sonny Greer
• Sonny Rollins
• Sonny Rollins Plus 4
• Sonny Stitt
• Stan Getz
• Stan Levey
• Stanley Turrentine
• Steve Turre
• Study in Brown
• Swish (album)
• Thad Jones
• Thelonious Monk
• To the Max!
• Tommy Turrentine
• trumpet
• United States
• waltz
• Warren Smith
• Work Time

Roach, Max Filmography

• Death of a Prophet (1981)
• Dilemma (1962)
• El marciano (1965)
• How to Draw a Bunny (2002)

Max Roach

Releases by year: 2007 2004 2002 1995 1993 1991 1987 1985 1984 1981 1971 1962 1960

Album releases

Deeds, Not Words (Released 2007)

• You Stepped Out of a Dream
• Filide
• It's You or No One
• Jodie's Cha-Cha
• Deeds, Not Words
• Larry-Larue
• Conversation
• There Will Never Be Another You

Drums Unlimited (Released 2004)

• The Drum Also Waltzes
• Nommo
• Drums Unlimited
• St. Louis Blues
• For Big Sid
• In the Red (A Xmas Carol)

Max Roach + 4 on the Chicago Scene (Released 2002)

• Shirley (mono version)
• My Old Flame (mono version)
• Sporty
• Stella by Starlight
• Stompin' at the Savoy (mono edit)
• Memo: To Maurice (mono version)

Jazz in Paris: Parisian Sketches (Released 2002)

• Parisian Sketches: The Tower / The Champs / The Caves / The Left Bank / The Arch
• Nica
• Petit déjeuner
• Un nouveau complet
• Liberté

The Max Roach 4 Plays Charlie Parker (Released 1995)

• Yardbird Suite
• Confirmation
• Koko
• Billie's Bounce
• Au Private
• Parker's Mood
• Rhaoul
• This Time the Dream's on Me
• Tune-Up
• Anthropology

Max Roach Plus Four (Released 1993)

• Ezz-Thetic
• Dr. Free-Zee
• Just One of Those Things
• Mr. X
• Body and Soul
• Woody 'N You
• It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) [*]
• Love Letters [*]
• Minor Trouble [*]

Percussion Bitter Sweet (Released 1993)

• Garvey's Ghost
• Mama
• Tender Warriors
• Praise for a Martyr
• Mendacity
• Man From South Africa

To The Max! (Released 1991)

• Ghost Dance, Parts 1, 2 & 3
• A Quiet Place
• The Profit
• Tears
• Self Portrait

Bright Moments (Released 1987)

• Bright Moments
• Elixir Suite
• Hi-Fly
• Tribute To Duke And Mingus
• Double Delight

Easy Winners (Released 1985)

• Bird Says
• Sis
• A Little Booker
• Easy Winners

Survivors (Released 1984)

• Survivors
• The Third Eye
• Billy the Kid
• Jasme
• The Drum Also Waltzes
• Sassy Max (Self Portrait)
• The Smoke That Thunders

Chattahoochee Red (Released 1981)

• The Dream / It's Time
• I Remember Clifford
• Reach For It
• Lonesome Lover
• Wefe
• Six Bits Blues
• Round Midnight
• Red River Blues
• Giant Steps
• Chatahoochee Red

Lift Every Voice and Sing (Released 1971)

• Motherless Child
• Garden of Prayer
• Troubled Waters
• Let They People Go
• Were You There When They Crucified My Lord
• Joshua

It's Time (Released 1962)

• It's Time
• Another Valley
• Sunday Afternoon
• Living Room
• The Profit
• Lonesome Lover

Deeds, Not Words (Released 1960)

• You Stepped Out of a Dream
• Filide
• It's You or No One
• Jodie's Cha-Cha
• Deeds, Not Words
• Larry-Larue
• Conversation

Jazz in ¾ Time

• Blues Waltz
• Valse Hot
• I'll Take Romance
• Little Folks
• Lover
• The Most Beautiful Girl In The World

Award Winning Drummer

• Tuba de Nod
• Milano
• Variations on the Scene
• Pies of Quincy
• Old Folks
• Sadiga
• Gandolfo's Bounce

M'Boom

• Circles
• It's Time
• Jamaican Sun
• Street Dance
• Mr Seven
• A Quiet Place

We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite

• Tears for Johannesburg
• Driva' Man
• Triptych ~prayer~protest~peace
• All Africa
• Freedom Day

Born: 1924-01-10

Died: 2007-08-15