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The Max Roach Trio Featuring the Legendary Hasaan

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Studio album by

Max Roach Trio

Released

March 1965^[1]

Recorded

December 4 & 7, 1964
New York City

Genre

Hard bop

post-bop

Length

41:07

Label

Atlantic
LP 1435

Producer

Arif Mardin

Max Roach chronology

Speak, Brother, Speak!
(1962)

The Max Roach Trio Featuring the Legendary Hasaan
(1965)

Drums Unlimited
(1965-66)

The Max Roach Trio Featuring the Legendary Hasaan is an album by American jazz drummer Max Roach with pianist Hasaan Ibn Ali, recorded in 1964 and released on the Atlantic label in March 1965.^[1]^[2] It is the only recording featuring Ibn Ali released during his lifetime.

Reception[edit]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[4]
Record Mirror	^[5]
Tom Hull	B+ ()^[6]

Allmusic awarded the album 4½ stars with reviewer Scott Yanow stating: "This is a classic of its kind and it is fortunate that it was made, but it is a tragedy that Hasaan would not record again and that he would soon sink back into obscurity".^[3]

Track listing[edit]

All compositions by Hasaan Ibn Ali

"Three-Four vs. Six-Eight Four-Four Ways" - 5:40
"Off My Back Jack" - 5:13
"Hope So Elmo" - 3:52
"Almost Like Me" - 6:39
"Din-Ka Street" - 6:08
"Pay Not Play Not" - 8:08
"To Inscribe" - 5:00

Recorded in New York on December 4 (tracks 1, 4 &5) and December 7 (tracks 2, 3, 6 &7), 1964

Personnel[edit]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b "New Album Releases". Billboard. The Billboard Publishing Co. 13 March 1965. Retrieved 29 September 2019.

^ Max Roach discography accessed September 24, 2012

^ ^a ^b Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed September 24, 2012

^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1221. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

^ Jones, Peter; Jopling, Norman (11 September 1965). "Max Roach Trio: Featuring The Legendary Hasaan" (PDF). Record Mirror. No. 235. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 18 August 2022.

^ Hull, Tom (June 2, 2020). "Music Week". Tom Hull – On the Web. Retrieved June 20, 2020.

Max Roach

Albums

The Max Roach Quartet featuring Hank Mobley (1953)
Max Roach + 4 (1956)
Jazz in 3/4 Time (1956–57)
The Max Roach 4 Plays Charlie Parker (1957–58)
Award-Winning Drummer (1958)
Booker Little 4 and Max Roach (1958)
MAX (1958)
Max Roach + 4 on the Chicago Scene (1958)
Max Roach + 4 at Newport (1958)
Max Roach with the Boston Percussion Ensemble (1958)
Deeds, Not Words (1958)
Moon Faced and Starry Eyed (with Abbey Lincoln, 1959)
Quiet as It's Kept (1959)
Rich Versus Roach (and Buddy Rich, 1959)
The Many Sides of Max (1959)
Long as You're Living (1960)
Parisian Sketches (1960)
We Insist! (1960)
Percussion Bitter Sweet (1961)
It's Time (1962)
Money Jungle (and Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, 1962)
Speak, Brother, Speak! (1962)
The Max Roach Trio Featuring the Legendary Hasaan (and Hasaan Ibn Ali, 1964)
Drums Unlimited (1965)
Members, Don't Git Weary (1968)
Lift Every Voice and Sing (1971)
Re: Percussion (M'Boom, Strata-East, 1973)
Birth and Rebirth (and Anthony Braxton, 1978)
Historic Concerts (and Cecil Taylor, 1979)
M'Boom (1979)
One in Two – Two in One (and Anthony Braxton, 1979)
Pictures in a Frame (1979)
The Long March (and Archie Shepp, 1979)
In the Light (1982)
Live at Vielharmonie (1983)
Collage (M'Boom, 1984)
It's Christmas Again (1984)
Scott Free (1984)
Survivors (1984)
Easy Winners (1985)
Bright Moments (1986)
Max + Dizzy: Paris 1989 (and Dizzy Gillespie, 1989)
To the Max! (1990–91)

With Clifford Brown

Best Coast Jazz (1954)
Brown and Roach Incorporated (1954)
Clifford Brown All Stars (1954)
Clifford Brown & Max Roach (1954–55)
Daahoud (1954)
Jam Session (and Clark Terry, Maynard Ferguson, 1954)
Clifford Brown with Strings (1955)
Study in Brown (1955)
Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street (1956)

Compilations

Alone Together: The Best of the Mercury Years (1954–60)

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