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M'Boom
M'Boom was an American jazz percussion group founded by drummer Max Roach in 1970. The original members were Roach, Roy Brooks, Warren Smith (jazz percussionist), Warren Smith, Joe Chambers, Omar Clay, Ray Mantilla, and Freddie Waits. All of M'Boom's members are and always have been percussionists, employing numerous percussion instruments besides the drums. These include bells, gongs, marimba, timpani, vibraphone, xylophone, and musical saw. Discography * 1973: ''Re: Percussion'' (Strata-East Records, Strata-East) * 1973: ''Re: Percussion'' (Baystate) * 1979: ''M'Boom (album), M'Boom'' (Columbia Records, Columbia) * 1984: ''Collage (M'Boom album), Collage'' (Soul Note Records, Soul Note) * 1991: ''To the Max!'' (Enja Records, Enja) * 1992: ''Live at S.O.B.'s New York'' (Blue Moon) References External linksConcert Review ''New York Times'', June 27, 1986 "Max Roach and M'Boom: Diasporic Soundings in American Percussion Music" thesis by Sean Leah Bowden (2018) {{DEFAUL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M'Boom (album)
''M'Boom'' is an album by American jazz percussion ensemble M'Boom, led by Max Roach, recorded in 1979 for the Columbia label.Max Roach discography accessed May 27, 2011 Reception '''' noted that "there are limits, as ''M'Boom'' proves, to the things that can be done (and none of them are harmonic in nature) with vibes, marimbas, steel drums, timpani, traps, and a few boxes of odds and ends." The review by S ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Roach
Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz drummer and composer. A pioneer of bebop, he worked in many other styles of music, and is generally considered one of the most important drummers in history. He worked with many famous jazz musicians, including Clifford Brown, Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Abbey Lincoln, Dinah Washington, Charles Mingus, Billy Eckstine, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Eric Dolphy, and Booker Little. He also played with his daughter Maxine Roach, a Grammy nominated violist. He was inducted into the ''DownBeat'' Hall of Fame in 1980 and the '' Modern Drummer'' Hall of Fame in 1992. In the mid-1950s, Roach co-led a pioneering quintet along with trumpeter Clifford Brown. In 1970, he founded the percussion ensemble M'Boom. Biography Early life and career Max Roach was born to Alphonse and Cressie Roach in the Township of Newland, Pasquotank County ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warren Smith (jazz Percussionist)
Warren Smith (born May 14, 1934) is an American jazz drummer, percussionist, and timpanist, known as a contributor to Max Roach's M'boom ensemble and leader of the Composer's Workshop Ensemble ( Strata-East). Biography Smith was born May 14, 1934, in Chicago, Illinois, to a musical family. His father played saxophone and clarinet with Noble Sissle and Jimmie Noone, and his mother was a harpist and pianist. At the age of four, Smith studied clarinet with his father. He graduated from the University of Illinois in 1957, then received a master's degree in percussion from the Manhattan School of Music in 1958. He found work in Broadway pit bands in 1958, and also played with Gil Evans that year. In 1961, he co-founded the Composers Workshop Ensemble. In the 1960s, Smith accompanied Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, Lloyd Price, and Nat King Cole; he worked with Sam Rivers from 1964–1976 and with Gil Evans again from 1968 to 1976. In 1969, he played with Janis Joplin and in 1971 w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Chambers
Joe Chambers (born June 25, 1942) is an American jazz drummer, pianist, vibraphonist and composer. In the 1960s and 1970s, Chambers gigged with many high-profile artists such as Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, Wayne Shorter, and Chick Corea and played on several iconic Blue Note albums of the 1960s. During this period, his compositions were featured on albums by Freddie Hubbard and Bobby Hutcherson. Chambers has released sixteen albums as a bandleader and was a founding member of Max Roach's M'Boom percussion ensemble. He has also taught, including at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York City, where he led the Outlaw Band. In 2008, he was hired to be the Thomas S. Kenan Distinguished Professor of Jazz in the Department of Music at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He is a retired educator and works as a jazz musician, composer, and leader. Early life Joe Chambers was born in Stoneacre, Virginia in 1942. However, Chambers was mostly raise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Brooks
Roy Brooks (March 9, 1938 – November 15, 2005) was an American Jazz drumming, jazz drummer. Biography Early life Brooks was born in Detroit and drummed since childhood, his earliest experiences of music coming through his mother, who sang in church. He was an outstanding varsity basketball player as a teenager and was offered a scholarship to the Detroit Institute of Technology; he attended the school for three semesters and then dropping out, dropped out to tour with Yusef Lateef.[ Roy Brooks] at Allmusic Career After time with Lateef and Barry Harris, he played with Beans Bowles and with the Four Tops in Las Vegas Strip, Las Vegas.Leonard Feather and Ira Gitler, ''The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz''. Oxford, 1999, p. 82. He played with Horace Silver from 1959 to 1964, including on the album ''Song for My Father (album), Song for My Father''; in 1963 he released his first album as a leader. Following this he freelanced in New York City through the 1960s and early 1970s, p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warren Smith (jazz Musician)
Warren Smith (born May 14, 1934) is an American jazz drummer, percussionist, and timpanist, known as a contributor to Max Roach's M'boom ensemble and leader of the Composer's Workshop Ensemble ( Strata-East). Biography Smith was born May 14, 1934, in Chicago, Illinois, to a musical family. His father played saxophone and clarinet with Noble Sissle and Jimmie Noone, and his mother was a harpist and pianist. At the age of four, Smith studied clarinet with his father. He graduated from the University of Illinois in 1957, then received a master's degree in percussion from the Manhattan School of Music in 1958. He found work in Broadway pit bands in 1958, and also played with Gil Evans that year. In 1961, he co-founded the Composers Workshop Ensemble. In the 1960s, Smith accompanied Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, Lloyd Price, and Nat King Cole; he worked with Sam Rivers from 1964–1976 and with Gil Evans again from 1968 to 1976. In 1969, he played with Janis Joplin and in 1971 w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freddie Waits
Frederick Douglas Waits (April 27, 1943 – November 18, 1989) was an American hard bop and post-bop drummer. Waits never officially recorded as leader, but was a prominent member and composer in Max Roach's M'Boom percussion ensemble. He worked as sideman with such pianists as McCoy Tyner, Kenny Barron, Andrew Hill, Gene Harris, Billy Taylor and Joe Zawinul. In 1967, Waits recorded with Freddie Hubbard. He was a member of the last Lee Morgan Quintet, an association ended by Morgan's murder in 1972. In the late 1970s, Waits formed ''Colloquium III'' with fellow drummers Horace Arnold and Billy Hart. In the 1980s he became a music faculty member of Rutgers University. He died of pneumonia and kidney failure in New York in 1989. His son is the drummer Nasheet Waits. Discography As sideman With Roy Ayers *'' Daddy Bug'' (Atlantic, 1969) With Kenny Barron *'' You Had Better Listen'' (Atlantic, 1967) with Jimmy Owens *'' Sunset to Dawn'' (Muse, 1973) *'' Autumn in Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collage (M'Boom Album)
''Collage'' is an album by American jazz percussion ensemble M'Boom led by Max Roach recorded in 1984 for the Italian Soul Note label.Max Roach discography accessed May 25, 2011 Reception The review by Ken Dryden awarded the album 3 stars stating "While listening to the mix of different instruments from track to track is fun, this CD is better savored a track or two at a time than trying to absorb the whole thing in one sitting".Dryden, KAllmusic Review accessed May 25, 2011 Track listin ...
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Ray Mantilla
Raymond Mantilla (June 22, 1934 – March 21, 2020) was an American percussionist. Discography As leader * ''Mantilla'' ( Inner City, 1978) * ''Hands of Fire'' ( Red, 1984) * ''Synergy'' (Red, 1986) * ''Dark Powers'' (Red, 1988) * ''The Next Step'' (Red, 2000) * ''Man-Ti-Ya'' (Savant, 2004) * ''Good Vibrations'' (Savant, 2006) * ''The Connection'' (Savant, 2013) * ''High Voltage'' (Savant, 2017) * ''Rebirth'' (Savant, 2021) As sideman With Mose Allison * 1994 ''The Earth Wants You'' * 1997 ''Jazz Profile'' With Gato Barbieri *'' Chapter Three: Viva Emiliano Zapata'' (Impulse!, 1974) *'' Yesterdays'' (Flying Dutchman, 1974) With Ray Barretto * 1961 ''Barretto Para Bailar'' * 1963 ''Latino! & Afro-Jaws'' * 1973 ''Carnaval: Latino!/Pachanga with Barretto'' With Joe Beck *''Beck & Sanborn'' (Columbia, 1975) *''Beck'' (Kudu, 1975) With Walter Bishop Jr. *'' Cubicle'' (Muse, 1978) With Art Blakey *'' Child's Dance'' (Prestige, 1972) *'' In My Prime Vol. 1'' (Timeless, 1977) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Berrios
Steve Berrios (February 24, 1945 – July 25, 2013) was an American jazz drummer and percussionist born in New York City. Biography Starting out on trumpet while in public school, Berrios was influenced by his father, a professional drummer, and his neighbors in Upper Manhattan: Tito Puente, Willie Bobo and Mongo Santamaria. At 16, Berrios began winning talent and trumpet contests, including the famed Apollo Theater competitions, in which he placed first no less than five times. Switching his focus to drums and percussion, he started touring and recording with Mongo Santamaria at the age of 19. Berrios learned to play batá sacred drums from Julito Collazo. He played conga, djembe, cowbells, marimba, timpani and glockenspiel in Dizzy Gillespie's band on a good-will tour of Cuba in the 1980s. In 1981, he became a founding member of the milestone Latin jazz group Jerry González & the Fort Apache Band. Berrios recorded more than a dozen albums as a member of the Fort Apache ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Allen (jazz Musician)
Eddie Allen (born July 12, 1957) is an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist from Milwaukee. Career Allen has worked with Muhal Richard Abrams, Lester Bowie, Art Blakey, Benny Carter, Chico Freeman, Craig Harris, and Dizzy Gillespie. He has used several variants of his name on CDs including E.J. Allen, Eddie E.J. Allen, and E.J. "Eddie" Allen. He also works in rhythm and blues and rock. Discography As leader * ''Another's Point of View'' ( Enja, 1993) * ''Remembrance'' (Venus, 1994) * ''R 'n' B'' (Enja, 1995) * ''Summer Days'' (Enja, 2000) * ''Sãlongo'' (DBCD, 2007) * ''Groove's Mood'' with The Aggregation (DBCD, 2008) * ''Push'' (Edjalen Music, 2014) * ''Jazzy Brass for the Holidays (2019) As sideman With Muhal Richard Abrams * '' Think All, Focus One'' (Black Saint, 1995) * '' One Line, Two Views'' (New World/CounterCurrents, 1995) * '' Song for All'' (Black Saint, 1997) With Lester Bowie * ''Serious Fun'' (DIW, 1987) * ''My Way'' (DIW, 1990) * ''The Fire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |