The Max Roach Quartet featuring Hank Mobley
1954 studio album by Max Roach
The Max Roach Quartet featuring Hank Mobley | ||||
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Studio album by Max Roach | ||||
Released | 1954 | |||
Recorded | April 10 & 21, 1953 New York City | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 32:35 | |||
Label | Debut DLP 13 | |||
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The Max Roach Quartet featuring Hank Mobley was the debut album by American jazz drummer Max Roach featuring tracks recorded in 1953 and first released on the Debut label as a 10-inch LP.[1]
Reception
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [2] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [3] |
Allmusic awarded the album 3½ stars and its review by Scott Yanow states, "Drummer Max Roach's first studio session as a leader falls stylewise between bop and hard bop... The music is enjoyable although not as essential as the great drummer's later dates".[2]
Track listing
All compositions by Max Roach except as indicated
- "Cou-Manchi-Cou" - 3:01
- "Just One of Those Things" (Cole Porter) - 3:08
- "The Glow Worm" (Paul Lincke, Johnny Mercer, Lilla C Robinson) - 2:27 Bonus track on 12 inch LP
- "Mobleyzation" (Hank Mobley) - 2:42 Bonus track on 12 inch LP
- "Chi-Chi" (Charlie Parker) - 2:58
- "Kismet" (Mobley) - 2:39
- "I'm a Fool to Want You" (Joel Herron, Frank Sinatra, Jack Wolf) - 3:13
- "Sfax" - 2:17 Bonus track on 12 inch LP
- "Orientation" (Mobley) - 2:50 Bonus track on 12 inch LP
- "Drum Conversation" - 2:42
- "Drum Conversation Part 2" - 4:38 Bonus track on CD reissue
- Recorded in New York City on April 10, 1953 (tracks 3, 4, 8 & 9) and April 21, 1953 (tracks 1, 2, 5-7, 10 & 11)
Personnel
- Max Roach - drums
- Hank Mobley - tenor saxophone (tracks 1-9)
- Walter Davis, Jr. - piano (tracks 1-9)
- Franklin Skeete - bass (tracks 1-9)
- Idrees Sulieman - trumpet (tracks 3, 4, 8 & 9)
- Leon Comegys - trombone (tracks 3, 4, 8 & 9)
- Gigi Gryce - alto saxophone (tracks 3, 4, 8 & 9)
References
- ^ Max Roach discography accessed July 26, 2014
- ^ a b Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed July 26, 2014
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1219. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
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- The Max Roach Quartet featuring Hank Mobley (1953)
- Max Roach + 4 (1956)
- Jazz in 3/4 Time (1956–57)
- The Max Roach 4 Plays Charlie Parker (1957–58)
- Award-Winning Drummer (1958)
- Booker Little 4 and Max Roach (1958)
- MAX (1958)
- Max Roach + 4 on the Chicago Scene (1958)
- Max Roach + 4 at Newport (1958)
- Max Roach with the Boston Percussion Ensemble (1958)
- Deeds, Not Words (1958)
- Moon Faced and Starry Eyed (with Abbey Lincoln, 1959)
- Quiet as It's Kept (1959)
- Rich Versus Roach (and Buddy Rich, 1959)
- The Many Sides of Max (1959)
- Long as You're Living (1960)
- Parisian Sketches (1960)
- We Insist! (1960)
- Percussion Bitter Sweet (1961)
- It's Time (1962)
- Money Jungle (and Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, 1962)
- Speak, Brother, Speak! (1962)
- The Max Roach Trio Featuring the Legendary Hasaan (and Hasaan Ibn Ali, 1964)
- Drums Unlimited (1965)
- Members, Don't Git Weary (1968)
- Lift Every Voice and Sing (1971)
- Re: Percussion (M'Boom, Strata-East, 1973)
- Birth and Rebirth (and Anthony Braxton, 1978)
- Historic Concerts (and Cecil Taylor, 1979)
- M'Boom (1979)
- One in Two – Two in One (and Anthony Braxton, 1979)
- Pictures in a Frame (1979)
- The Long March (and Archie Shepp, 1979)
- In the Light (1982)
- Live at Vielharmonie (1983)
- Collage (M'Boom, 1984)
- It's Christmas Again (1984)
- Scott Free (1984)
- Survivors (1984)
- Easy Winners (1985)
- Bright Moments (1986)
- Max + Dizzy: Paris 1989 (and Dizzy Gillespie, 1989)
- To the Max! (1990–91)
- Best Coast Jazz (1954)
- Brown and Roach Incorporated (1954)
- Clifford Brown All Stars (1954)
- Clifford Brown & Max Roach (1954–55)
- Daahoud (1954)
- Jam Session (and Clark Terry, Maynard Ferguson, 1954)
- Clifford Brown with Strings (1955)
- Study in Brown (1955)
- Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street (1956)
- Alone Together: The Best of the Mercury Years (1954–60)