Nat Hentoff, writer:
“I remember at a memorial for “Papa Jo” Jones, Max told a story about playing at a club and seeing Papa Jo in the audience. Max knew Papa Jo was checking him out, so he played as if he had 40 hands. Afterwards Max went up to Papa Jo, and Papa Jo said, "All I could hear was your watch."
It tells a lot about Max that he told that story on himself! We recorded We Insist: Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite together in 1960, which was the first full-scale work that stated how people felt at that time.
Max knew how to make people work together, and he coordinated it all without being imperious. Max always said that jazz is an essential paradigm for constitutional democracy. In jazz each individual has a voice, but in order for it to work the individuals must listen to each other, and this is the definition of democracy. It's funny because there's now a professor in Utah who's writing a thesis about this, but it's something Max knew long ago.”
Perhaps inspired in part by Ralph Ellison. Miles on the other hand might just have said "so what" and played on...
Aug 19, 07 12:38 pm ·
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i didnt know of him, but after seeing this
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=LeYXfmgHU9c
impressive
Nat Hentoff, writer:
“I remember at a memorial for “Papa Jo” Jones, Max told a story about playing at a club and seeing Papa Jo in the audience. Max knew Papa Jo was checking him out, so he played as if he had 40 hands. Afterwards Max went up to Papa Jo, and Papa Jo said, "All I could hear was your watch."
It tells a lot about Max that he told that story on himself! We recorded We Insist: Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite together in 1960, which was the first full-scale work that stated how people felt at that time.
Max knew how to make people work together, and he coordinated it all without being imperious. Max always said that jazz is an essential paradigm for constitutional democracy. In jazz each individual has a voice, but in order for it to work the individuals must listen to each other, and this is the definition of democracy. It's funny because there's now a professor in Utah who's writing a thesis about this, but it's something Max knew long ago.”
Perhaps inspired in part by Ralph Ellison. Miles on the other hand might just have said "so what" and played on...
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