M'Boom is an American jazz percussion group founded by drummer
Max Roach in 1970. The original members were Roach,
Roy Brooks
Roy Brooks (March 9, 1938 – November 15, 2005) was an American 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 a ...
,
Warren Smith,
Joe Chambers, Omar Clay,
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 ...
, 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
The marimba () is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets. Below each bar is a resonator pipe that amplifies particular harmonics of its sound. Compared to the xylophone, the timbre ...
,
timpani
Timpani (; ) or kettledrums (also informally called timps) are musical instruments in the percussion family. A type of drum categorised as a hemispherical drum, they consist of a membrane called a head stretched over a large bowl traditionall ...
,
vibraphone
The vibraphone is a percussion instrument in the metallophone family. It consists of tuned metal bars and is typically played by using mallets to strike the bars. A person who plays the vibraphone is called a ''vibraphonist,'' ''vibraharpist,' ...
,
xylophone
The xylophone (; ) is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets. Like the glockenspiel (which uses metal bars), the xylophone essentially consists of a set of tuned wooden keys arranged in the ...
, and
musical saw
A musical saw, also called a singing saw, is a hand saw used as a musical instrument. Capable of continuous glissando (portamento), the sound creates an ethereal tone, very similar to the theremin. The musical saw is classified as a plaque f ...
.
Discography
* 1973: ''
Re: Percussion'' (
Strata-East
Strata-East Records is an American record company and label specialising in jazz founded in 1971 by Charles Tolliver and Stanley Cowell with the release of their first recording ''Music Inc.'' The label released over 50 albums in the 1970s. Many ...
)
* 1973: ''Re: Percussion'' (
Baystate)
* 1979: ''
M'Boom'' (
Columbia)
* 1984: ''
Collage
Collage (, from the french: coller, "to glue" or "to stick together";) is a technique of art creation, primarily used in the visual arts, but in music too, by which art results from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. ...
'' (
Soul Note
Black Saint and Soul Note are two affiliated Italian independent record labels. Since their conception in the 1970s, they have released albums from a variety of influential jazz musicians, particularly in the genre of free jazz.
History
Black S ...
)
* 1991: ''
To the Max!
''To the Max!'' is a double album by American jazz drummer Max Roach featuring tracks recorded in 1990 and 1991 and released on the Enja Records, Enja label.Enja
Enja Records is a German jazz record company and label based in Munich which was founded by jazz enthusiasts Matthias Winckelmann and Horst Weber in 1971.
The label's first release was by Mal Waldron, and early releases included European and Ja ...
)
* 1992: ''Live at S.O.B.'s New York'' (Blue Moon)
References
External links
Concert Review ''
New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid d ...
'', June 27, 1986
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American jazz ensembles
Percussion ensembles
Strata-East Records artists
Columbia Records artists
Black Saint/Soul Note artists