Speak, Brother, Speak! is a live album by American jazz drummer Max Roach featuring performances recorded in San Francisco in 1962 and released by the Fantasy label.[1]
Reception
Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars stating: "The music is somewhere between hard bop and the avant-garde, and the musicians really push each other, although the results are not quite essential. Clifford Jordan fans in particular will find this to be an interesting set".[2]
Track listing
All compositions by Max Roach except as indicated
- "Speak, Brother, Speak" (Clifford Jordan, Eddie Khan, Max Roach, Mal Waldron) - 25:03
- "A Variation" - 20:30
References
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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release. |
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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)
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Co-leader with Clifford Brown | |
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With Sonny Rollins | |
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With others |
- Witch Doctor (Chet Baker, 1953)
- Introducing Jimmy Cleveland and His All Stars (1955)
- Al Cohn's Tones (1953)
- Birth of the Cool (Miles Davis, 1949–50)
- Conception (Miles Davis, Lee Konitz, 1951)
- Jazz Contrasts (Kenny Dorham, 1957)
- Paris Blues (Duke Ellington, 1961)
- Jam Session featuring Maynard Ferguson (1954)
- Diz and Getz (Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, 1953)
- Stan Getz and the Cool Sounds (1954)
- The Bop Session (Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, 1975)
- The Modern Touch (Benny Golson, 1957)
- Introducing Johnny Griffin (Johnny Griffin, 1956)
- Drum Suite (Slide Hampton, 1962)
- Body and Soul (Coleman Hawkins, 1946)
- First Place (J. J. Johnson, 1957)
- The Magnificent Thad Jones (1956)
- That's Him! (Abbey Lincoln, 1957)
- Straight Ahead (Abbey Lincoln, 1961)
- Out Front (Booker Little, 1961)
- The Complete Blue Note Fifties Sessions Gil Melle, 1952)
- Mingus at the Bohemia (Charles Mingus, 1955)
- The Charles Mingus Quintet & Max Roach (1955)
- Genius of Modern Music: Volume 2 (Thelonious Monk, 1952)
- Brilliant Corners (Thelonious Monk, 1956)
- Herbie Nichols Trio (1955–56)
- Charlie Parker's Savoy and Dial sessions/Charlie Parker on Dial/Complete Charlie Parker on Dial (1945–48)
- Big Band (Charlie Parker, 1952)
- Oscar Pettiford Sextet (1954)
- The Amazing Bud Powell (1951)
- Pretty for the People (A.K. Salim, 1957)
- Sonny Stitt/Bud Powell/J. J. Johnson (1949–50)
- Stan "The Man" Turrentine (1960)
- Dinah Jams (Dinah Washington, 1954)
- Uhuru Afrika (Randy Weston, 1960)
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With Art Farmer | |
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With Charles Mingus | |
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With Lee Morgan | |
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With Max Roach | |
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With Cedar Walton | |
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With others |
- Paul Chambers Quintet (1957)
- Sonny Clark Quintets/My Conception (1957)
- Epistrophy & Now's the Time (Richard Davis, 1972)
- Dealin' (Richard Davis, 1973)
- Iron Man (Eric Dolphy, 1963)
- Conversations (Eric Dolphy, 1963)
- To Bird with Love (Dizzy Gillespie, 1992)
- Roots (Slide Hampton, 1985)
- Luminous (John Hicks and Elise Wood, 1985)
- Shades (Andrew Hill, 1986)
- J.J. Inc. (J.J. Johnson, 1961)
- Con Alma! (Charles McPherson, 1965)
- Any Old Time (Carmen McRae, 1986)
- Carmen Sings Monk (Carmen McRae, 1988)
- Live at the Theatre Boulogne-Billancourt/Paris, Vol. 1 (Mingus Dynasty, 1988)
- Live at the Theatre Boulogne-Billancourt/Paris, Vol. 2 (Mingus Dynasty, 1988)
- Pony's Express (Pony Poindexter, 1962)
- Manhattan Project (Dizzy Reece, 1976)
- The Jazz We Heard Last Summer (Sahib Shihab, 1957)
- Further Explorations (Horace Silver, 1958)
- Music Inc. (Charles Tolliver, 1970)
- What It Is (Mal Waldron, 1981)
- Money in the Pocket (Joe Zawinul, 1967)
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Year(s) indicated are for the recording(s), not first release. |
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With Gene Ammons | |
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With Jackie McLean | |
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With Charles Mingus | |
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With the Prestige All Stars | |
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With others |
- All Night Long (Kenny Burrell, 1956)
- Earthy (Kenny Burrell, 1957)
- 2 Guitars (Kenny Burrell & Jimmy Raney, 1957)
- Where? (Ron Carter, 1961)
- The Teddy Charles Tentet (1956)
- Coolin' (Teddy Charles, 1957)
- Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette (John Coltrane & Paul Quinichette, 1957)
- Coltrane (1957)
- Dakar (John Coltrane, Pepper Adams & Cecil Payne, 1957)
- At the Five Spot (Eric Dolphy, both volumes, 1961)
- Tuba Sounds (Ray Draper, 1957)
- Hornful of Soul (aka, Catwalk, Bennie Green, 1960)
- Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport (1957)
- Lady in Satin (Billie Holiday, 1958)
- So Warm (Etta Jones, 1961)
- After Hours (Thad Jones, 1957)
- Olio (Thad Jones, 1957)
- Reflections: Steve Lacy Plays Thelonious Monk (1958)
- Straight Ahead (Abbey Lincoln, 1961)
- Teo (Teo Macero, 1957)
- On the Sunny Side (Paul Quinichette, 1957)
- Percussion Bitter Sweet (Max Roach, 1961)
- It's Time (Max Roach, 1962)
- Speak, Brother, Speak! (Max Roach, 1962)
- For Lady (Webster Young, 1957)
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