Max Roach | Triptych 1964

[@DJAnthrocide]

Max is the greatest. He never overplayed. He was confident in his skill, never felt he had anything to prove to anybody...

[@musicircle]

A genius at work.

[@josephsinsalot]

Humble geniuses are the best. Showboating is just overcompensating or narcissistic and ruins great music. This is some spot on writing in my opinion. We are all one. Make America Honest Again

[@oldenmusicianco.4527]

Only realised it was in 5/4 when Max started playing phrases he usually plays in 3/4… incredible.

[@Spreadsheeter]

I knew something was off!

[@davidmfass]

I could never hold a bass line like that while the drummer is going nuts. Amazing.

[@micktheMaag]

Bass line is the lead... everyone else plays off of..

[@zuconne3334]

Sorry ,the name of the bass player ? And piano if you know, thanks in advance

[@tyromecox3059]

@@zuconne3334 Eddie Khan is the bassist . Not sure of the pianist.

[@francoamerican4632]

The saxophone player is like a statue when he's not playing. Reminds me of the changing of the guards guys who stand motionless for long periods of time without blinking.

[@Leftcoastalien1]

He was lock ed in with the high hat. Never lost time the whole piece

[@luiszuluaga6575]

Abbey Lincoln was a phenomenal musician and knew her instrument well.

[@reelloopy]

proof that punk and elegance are not mutually exclusive.unfucking real.somebody give that camera-man a medal too.

[@HK556]

5/4, music's most defiant rhythm.

[@davidl6332]

nah

[@AkouriAmmar]

Hardly

[@astraluna6is9]

Agreed

[@mikealexander2005]

Max Roach wasn't ever playing on the same planet as anyone else.

[@camsteele586]

Agreed, unreal playing. Self taught as well.

[@alankirkby465]

My favourite drummer. Have you heard Max drum solo on Sonny Rollins, Album: Saxophone Colossus ( 1956) track : Blue seven.

[@JT-si6bl]

Totally. He made them.

[@ryanhall3093]

Pure gold! Love Max Roach especially.

[@vladimirtrop8658]

Mind blowing masterpiece. Master drummer and composer, his then wife with her unbelieveble art of vocal expression of any kind of human feelings. Also great contribution of all members of this quintet: Cliff Jordan on sax, Eddie Khane on bass and (very underrated and almost unknown composer and pianist) Coleridge Perkinson on piano. Best regards from Slovenia!

[@upstatenydude8322]

They are all magnificent, but holy f*cking shit Max Roach!

[@Lucas.-11]

My god, this is perfection.... This is pure soul. I have no words....

[@astraluna6is9]

Your words are perfect praise

[@Lucas.-11]

@@astraluna6is9 so, so beautiful.

[@DrumsAndVideoGames]

the first time after 40 years i finally understand max roach... i've had it wrong for years

[@videos1579]

No comment just pure original music 😎♫♪♫♪♫

[@oquemaur]

As they say....another level!!

[@astraluna6is9]

It’s the top shelf

[@JayFrederick]

Love it. If this was today, there would be a new camera angle every second, a bunch of focus pulling in and out, whip pans and glide cams galore. Also the set design is Art. And Max and Abbey together--it doesn't get any better.

[@iggynor5007]

2:28 OMG! Amazing!

[@dvduadotcom]

hahaha you got that right!

[@lumanchu3386]

One of the coolest things I've ever witnessed. DAMN

[@EleniEliades_]

POWERFULL !!! Max on Drums and Abbey 's haunting vocals ~

[@laurentmeunier3244]

J’ai vu Max et son orchestre en 1971 à Metz au caveau des trinitaires. La classe! Il est venu me parler à la mi-temps. J’étais sidéré de la qualité des orchestres de jazz américains. Je n’oublierais jamais.

[@alessandromanzo3282]

Such a class, ✊🏽 this is human heritage!!!!!!

[@williamlockner8788]

Absolutely wonderful!!!

[@sala19843714]

Powerful. Mighty

[@familytreemusic]

What a masterpiece.

[@interstellar5213]

...in the timbre and rhythm a strong imprint of truth

[@georgiosvlaxos3362]

Georgios Vlachos / 6th of March 2022 / Greece 58 years have passed since this jazz piece. The amazing playing on drums by Max Roach and the wonderful voice of Abbey Lincoln, donate to us an unforgetable duet.

[@MKorayEray]

Clearly they have lived in an era of gentlemen, ladies and talent. The diversity and depth of this masterpiece cannot be found nowadays.

[@powbobs]

Also an era of Jim Crow unfortunately.

[@josephramone5805]

And heroin...lots and lots of heroin

[@namesurname7172]

Eh. You're just not looking hard enough.

[@oldbeatpete]

... but also an era of true musicianship and the classic jazz sounds instrumentally and vocally. True jazz 1946-66.

[@ChrisSmithJazzDrumHang]

Masters of American Music! Love it, thanks for posting. Max Roach!

[@duderdudeedoo1984]

A karaoke go-to of mine

[@tomeberhard74]

top 5 youtube comment. 💯

[@jameskerr7439]

Max used two different size hi hat cymbals. Unusual.

[@MichaelGibson5047]

He said cymbal sizing forced sound out

[@jmfs3497]

Just noticed that for the first time and searched to see if anyone else commented on it. I want to try that now.

[@alanduncan1980]

@@jmfs3497 I've tried the 13" over 14" ala Max Roach. With the shoulder of the stick you're playing the bottom hat and with the tip of the stick you're playing the top hat, when the hats are closed. I personally wasn't a fan of it, but he made it work.

[@michaelarojas]

What a beautiful song

[@LInconnue_Bob]

Music can take you to far away places.

[@udomatthiasdrums5322]

still love his drumming and his attitude!!

[@StumbleMuse]

Legend.

[@richardgrant7023]

Towards the end, the quality of her voice and even some of the notes/phrasing remind me of Clare Torry's beautiful, soulful work on "The Great Gig in the Sky" on Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon album.

[@dvduadotcom]

Very nice observation.

[@HK556]

I've often described this song as a mix between "The Great Gig In The Sky" and "Moby Dick"

[@luiszuluaga6575]

Indeed. Music speaks to us across all bands of the spectrum.

[@mladicrossati3291]

se non erro, questa Cantante era la😍 MOGLIE 😍 di 👑🏆 MAX 🏆👑 ...., by mladic .....

[@bluejazzcat]

Wow the buzzing on the 12 tom, from the snare. I hate that. And it is very hard to get rid of it. But Max is amazing, as always!

[@tjarlzquoll9835]

Genuinely exciting music!

[@vedamoorthynagamuni4848]

Wow, KZbin is a treasure. Jazz music forever. Love the style. As always Max Roach is classy. As is the whole band.

[@TedDyP0wer]

3:00 John Bonham got one of his licks from Max!

[@humbertosandoval55]

Well sure, Bonham also takes parts of The Drum Also Waltzes, you can it that clearly during his drum solo in the Royal Albert Hall performance filmed in 1970

[@electraluxx]

@@humbertosandoval55 Hey, if you are going to steal, steal from the best.

[@superdynamite7800]

Bonham was playing tribute to the master. Bonham loved Max.

[@marcgregoryneville]

He was pulling more from Elvin.

[@mahogany174]

Hysterical! I hope everyone was singing along or even tried to hum the tune😖

[@A.ChristopherJohnson]

Max for President !!!

[@oniondidgeridoo9720]

Happy 100th birthday Max❤

[@keithm1468]

First time hearing this and WOW! Man sounds like a metronome from another dimension.

[@chrisrice5926]

darwin this is good

[@mladicrossati3291]

l'indipenenza tra mani di MAX è UNICA !!! 👑👑👑👑🏆🏆🏆🏆

[@paulwallis7586]

Played now, that would be considered avant garde. It's incredibly ambitious, given the time, and it would be now.

[@davidanderson7382]

Abbie was an remarkably resourceful singer. I can easily imagine that this gift was nurtured by one of the world's greatest drummers. Thanks for posting.

[@WertheimConsulting]

I ain't seen no drumming like that ever.

[@JackKlumpass]

Timeless

[@stix9641]

❤ Go Max

[@bigfootpegrande]

Som fino...

[@pierre-emmanuelviverge2108]

Merci

[@michaelredd4642]

Go head Max!!!!!!!

[@danielchernau3503]

Max was so much more precise playing the small kit with trad grip.

[@santih5043]

That was powerful. And unfortunately so apt for the times in which we are living.

[@almirdmouramoura2143]

Ele era um às da bateria ....

[@alejandropascualetti6312]

Aprendiendo de lo bueno

[@microimpact]

Is it just me seeing Kirk, Spock and Uhura flying by in an earth near orbit, wondering what´s going on there?

[@dylangatenby9928]

I like the fact that the female singer screams and yells. She does so combined with Max's drumming but does so in such an artistic fashion. Whats with the Buddy Rich clip at the end?

[@richardbutler4528]

Yeah, very artistic. Woo hoo!

[@Etherealsex2]

Free expression

[@larryrobinson4296]

@@Etherealsex2 Representative of a movement in the 1960s called "Free Jazz".

[@pochetto66]

Coukikou !!!

[@ianballantyne6892]

Original Dire Straits drummer Pick Withers brought me here!!!

[@waltergonzalez1426]

DAT hithat o.o

[@victormorgado5318]

in this historical context of those days of segreggation, we can see how seriously and creatively advanced was this american art form despite the mainstream ingnorance..

[@ttacking_you]

I wonder if a 13 o'er a 14 as exposited in Mr Roach's set-up really cuts down on "hi hat lock" or hihat choke where the pedal note is rendered inaudible due to a plunger-like effect of those old school hihats? ( Something I've never met anyone whose experienced before but I have seen the holes drilled on a bottom hat occasionally)

[@HK556]

In another video, someone compared Buddy Rich to Star Wars, and Jo Jones to Citizen Kane, watching this video I can only say that Max Roach is 2001: Space Odyssey

[@dividoguy]

There is a video of this band playing this music where the set is each individual band member in a jail cell. Anyone ever seen it or know where I can find it? Great performance as is this one but the visual put it over the top

[@vladimirtrop8658]

Yes, you can find this on You tube. Recorded on January 15, 1964 in Baden Baden, named Complete German concert. Regards from Slovenia!

[@thomasp7691]

THUMBS UP !

[@1987thedrums]

Man these cats were playing in 2064

[@katznels5]

The tune here is actually Tears for Johannesburg

[@mmontanezz98]

thank you!!! you just saved my life

[@marcelgomesz]

I was confused since the original song is just vocals and drums.

[@arielbejaranocubero8281]

Now I see where Death Metal actually came from

[@minmax5]

It isn't just metal though either! Jazz has had such an incredibly widespread influence on modern music, everything from contemporary pop music, to breakcore, to avant garde noise stuff takes massive influence from jazz. Even if the artists making the music don't realize were those influences came from.

[@ronaldmoses48]

Death metal 😑🙄 you dont know good music

[@0SW13]

clifford jordan on the tenor sax

[@ryankklein]

Max going crazy we see a lady's teeth. great camera work...

[@edellis515]

Masterpiece

[@danielpincus221]

Max’s response/homage to Take Five?

[@Yonatancrazydrummer2000]

who is vocals?? please!!!

[@petebest22]

Be nice to see max drumming away at the end instead of this woman's open gob :-o

[@marcusbendon1556]

Ok... either he's playing both the snare and the tom with one hand, or he's got snare's attached to his tom. Any drummers here? What's going on there?

[@gustavoestevam5263]

No, he is playing one at the time. Notice that his tom is tuned higher than the snare. That's why you had that feeling

[@santiagojosecaballerocalab3750]

Gustavo Estevam what ? Si you mean that sound like a snare is really the high Tom tuned higher ?

[@gustavoestevam5263]

@@santiagojosecaballerocalab3750 yes. That is right. It is the tom tom tuned very high.

[@Craigo-xg5mc]

Marcus Bendon Sympathetic snare buzz. The tom is activating the snares on the snare drum. All drum kits do this to some degree. Modern recording techniques might subdue it but that’s the actual sound. Same thing happens when the bass player plays just about anything.

[@santiagojosecaballerocalab3750]

Gustavo Estevam I just can’t believe that and I never thought about doing that this is a creative genius

[@RococoPagoda]

So good! Who is that on bass, tho?

[@jiyujizai]

🙂🌸💛

[@james5637]

Anyone got the lyrics to this? 🤔

[@MrSpacejase]

Yoko Ono at the end?

[@keskeyungleanolsaydim1898]

8:10

[@novenaprayer7487]

Goth / rock music innovators.

[@smallfry4624]

2:26 what

[@knarftahw]

Man what a hecktic scene.

[@olavosilvajunior577]

The black scream shouting against the barbarism of racism. Impressive presentation. Clapping

[@richardbutler4528]

You're being sarcastic , right?

[@richardbutler4528]

You're being sarcastic , right?

[@richardbutler4528]

Who's in control here?

[@richardbutler4528]

Fuck u 2 administrator!

[@olavosilvajunior577]

@@richardbutler4528 Of course not, it's real. Connect man

[@idigbebop]

Wait. Where’s the one ?

[@MichaelGibson5047]

Mr High Hat.

[@deathincorporatedfitnesstr1256]

This is a tool song....think about it....5/4....haunting repetition .....droning bass...lol. Awesome. Influences are ageless.

[@KickflipGnasty]

dude you're so right on about that. I couldn't agree more

[@deathincorporatedfitnesstr1256]

@@KickflipGnasty yup. Once it clicks it is so obvious..yet so awesome..lol.

[@samtotheg]

na fuck tool ,why cant these black artists have their own stuff without yall comparing them to tool and pink floyd etc ...white artists that already got their shine!

[@james5637]

@@samtotheg What does skin colour have to do with anything? 🙄

[@samtotheg]

@@james5637 everything white boy ,its always black music artist being compared to white artists who are palatable to white people in the comments, I peep game!

[@alexchristian3113]

Where can I find more amazing stuff like this?

[@alexchristian3113]

@@musicircle thank you so much

[@conradmason87]

Traditional grip trip.

[@josequiero1118]

2020, not much has changed

[@matt23012301]

is this on a record?

[@Eric-steele]

3/4 ?

[@julianmitchell3035]

5/4

[@learnfromthecity1583]

Yoko Ono was like 👀

[@edellis515]

Masterpiece. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 iiiii

[@danielondrums7646]

Hear some strong joe morello influence on those 5/4 grooves and the solo at the beginning. Couldn't blame him though

[@750count]

I heard that

[@bugbugbugbugbugbug]

Max was doing it years before Joe actually

[@samtotheg]

@@bugbugbugbugbugbug yeah max wasnt influenced by joe at all!

[@danielchernau3503]

exactly backwards

[@Leviplaysdrums]

And people say death metal is weird...

[@mpwmwtadau]

who's on the sax? anyone knows?

[@Pacific_maps]

That's Clifford Jordan.

[@KickflipGnasty]

@@Pacific_maps Do you know who's on piano and bass??

[@KickflipGnasty]

Who the hell is on bass and piano??lol

[@alankirkby465]

I believe the piano: Coleridge Perkinson. Bass : Eddie Khan. Sax : Clifford Jordan.