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Friday, August 17, 2007

Max Roach, Modern Jazz Legend and Ailey Collaborator, Dies at 83

by Peter Keepnews
The New York Times, August 17, 2007

Max Roach, a founder of modern jazz who rewrote the rules of drumming in the 1940s and spent the rest of his career breaking musical barriers and defying listeners’ expectations, died early yesterday in Manhattan. He was 83. [To continue, click here.]

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