Award-Winning Drummer

Award-Winning Drummer
Award-Winning Drummer
Studio album by Max Roach
Released	1960
Recorded	November 4, 1958; Capitol Studios, New York City
Genre	Jazz
Label	Time; T/70003
Producer	Bob Shad
Max Roach chronology

Award-Winning Drummer (also released as Max Roach) is an album by American jazz drummer Max Roach featuring a session recorded in 1958 and released on the Time label.^[1]

Reception[edit]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]
DownBeat	^[3]
Tom Hull	B+ ()^[4]

Allmusic reviewer Ron Wynn stated the group was "among the finest hard bop ensembles around".^[2]

Track listing[edit]

All compositions by Max Roach, except as indicated,

"Tuba de Nod" - 3:56
"Milano" (John Lewis) - 5:09
"Variations on the Scene" (George Coleman) - 5:37
"Pies of Quincy" - 3:19
"Old Folks" (Dedette Lee Hill, Willard Robison) - 4:16
"Sadiga" (Coleman) - 6:31
"Gandolfo's Bounce" (Booker Little) - 5:38
"Milano" [alternate take] (Lewis) - 6:33 bonus track on iTunes release
"Old Folks" [alternate take] (Hill, Robison) - 4:31 bonus track on iTunes release
"Gandolfo's Bounce" [alternate take] (Little) - 6:12 bonus track on iTunes release

Personnel[edit]

References[edit]

^ Max Roach discography accessed September 21, 2012
^ ^a ^b Wynn, R. Allmusic Review accessed September 21, 2012
^ DeMichael, Don (14 April 1960). "Max Roach: Award-Winning Drummer". DownBeat. Vol. 27, no. 8. pp. 34, 36.
^ Hull, Tom (June 2, 2020). "Music Week". Tom Hull – On the Web. Retrieved June 20, 2020.

[1] Max Roach discography accessed September 21, 2012

[AllMusic-2] Wynn, R. Allmusic Review accessed September 21, 2012

[3] DeMichael, Don (14 April 1960). "Max Roach: Award-Winning Drummer". DownBeat. Vol. 27, no. 8. pp. 34, 36.

[Hull-4] Hull, Tom (June 2, 2020). "Music Week". Tom Hull – On the Web. Retrieved June 20, 2020.

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v t e 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)

v t e Booker Little
Years indicated are for the recording(s), not first release
As leader or co-leader	Booker Little 4 and Max Roach (aka, The Defiant Ones, 1958) Booker Little (Time, 1960) Far Cry (with Eric Dolphy, 1960) At the Five Spot (with Eric Dolphy, 1961) Booker Little and Friend (aka, Victory and Sorrow, 1961) Out Front (1961)
With Max Roach	Award-Winning Drummer (aka, Max Roach, 1958) Deeds, Not Words (1958) Max Roach + 4 on the Chicago Scene (1958) Max Roach + 4 at Newport (1958) The Many Sides of Max (1959) We Insist! (1960) Percussion Bitter Sweet (1961)
With others	Africa/Brass (John Coltrane, 1961) Slide Hampton and His Horn of Plenty (1959) Straight Ahead (Abbey Lincoln, 1961) Fantastic Frank Strozier (1959–60)
Compilations	Alone Together: The Best of the Mercury Years (Max Roach, 1958–59)