Roach, Max Filmography

• Play in Full Screen The 50th Annual Grammy Awards

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself - Honoree
• Play in Full Screen How to Draw a Bunny

  2002, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz

  1997, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Abbey Lincoln: You Gotta Pay the Band

  1993, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Behind the Scenes

  1992, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Bill Cosby Salutes Alvin Ailey

  1989, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Åke Hasselgård story

  1983, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Musicourt

  1983, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen A Salute to Duke

  1981, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Death of a Prophet

  1981, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen The Last of the Blue Devils

  1979, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen El marciano

  1965, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Dilemma

  1962, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Jazz on a Summer's Day

  1959, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Carmen Jones

  1954, role: actor , character name: Max

Famous quotes by Max Roach:

"I'd like to build what I call an oasis."

"The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument."

"They don't tell you why they chose you. And they won't say who was on the committee."

"Although the crash came a year later, and although the people were poor and disenfranchised, they had a lot of pride."

"I didn't even apply. There was no warning."

"I'm still in a state of shock."

"My point is that we much decolonize our minds and re-name and re-define ourselves . . . In all respects, culturally, politically, socially, we must re-define ourselves and our lives, in our own terms."

"I always resented the role of a drummer as nothing more than a subservient figure."

"Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty."

"he American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra."

Max Roach

Born: 1924-01-10

Died: 2007-08-15