Young people climbed up the old marble columns of the hall for a better look at the band. The audience — including girls in headscarves — danced around the gilded...
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Drummer Max Roach, who helped
revolutionize jazz by creating the fast-paced bebop style along
with players like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Clifford
Brown, has died...
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Max Roach made a career out of rewriting the rule books.
The pioneering jazz percussionist, known as much for the political convictionsas for his sleight of hand with the...
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