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August 17, 2007

Jazz drummer Max Roach dies at 83: Listen; Patriots-Titans, 8 p.m. on Fox and 5

Jazz drummer Max Roach performs during the the Newport Jazz Festival in New York, June 26, 1978.

Max Roach, a Founder of Modern Jazz, Dies at 83 is an informed musical obit at Drummerworld with five over-the-shoulder videos of the master drummer drumming.

Idolator tells it like this:

...drummer Max Roach, who left his rhythmic stamp on so much post-war jazz, passed on today. Over a career that stretched some 60-plus years, from young bebop turk to universally respected elder statesmen, political firebrand and restless intellectual, Roach recorded numerous classic dates as a leader, worked as a sideman with enough giants to fill up a jazz textbook, and managed to swing with a heartstopping funkiness or a fingertip-tender caress whatever the mood of the date he was playing on or the musicians he found himself playing with.

Here are some music blogs mourning to his music. All offer tunes. Listen:

Audiversity: Max Roach R.I.P.:

Here is a proper summation of his unbelievable 70 years of jazz drumming, and here is a comprehensive discography of his work.

Locust St.: Max Roach, 1924-2007

ANABlog: RIP, Max

ipickmynose: max roach, RIP

Roach's stature is huge in our house. Joe named one of our cats Max after this man. (The other is Miles.)

Football practice: 10:10 a.m. The New England Patriots' preseason home opener at Gillette stadium against the Tennessee Titans will be on Ch. 5 and on Fox at 8 p.m. tonight.

Just the enthusiasm of the hometime crowd should make this lesss of a snooze than last week's loss to Tampa Bay.

I hope the announcers are better. Last week, when they should have been telling us who that Patriot was who ran downfield out of bounds and drew the 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty -- his dreads covered the name on his jersey -- they were droning on with patter they'd brought with them. I ended up on the Patriots site looking at the roster to find out that #41 was rookie Larry Anam out of Boston College.

No game-day recipe today. It's Friday night, we're beat and not cooking. We'll be doing chicken salad, fruit and cheese and a plastic tub of smoked mussels. All healthy and cool, unless my brother brings those killer cheddar Kettle chips again.

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