The Jazz Show Episode January 15, 2024

Drum Master Max Roach: "Speak Brother Speak!"

9:04pm - 12:32am

Tonight's Jazz Feature is a recording done at San Francisco's Jazz Workshop on October 27,1962 by the Max Roach Quartet with drum master Max Roach at the helm with Clifford Jordan on tenor saxophone, Mal Waldron on piano and Eddie Khan on bass. Two extended works are featured. The first is the title track "Speak Brother Speak" depicts speakers on a soapbox expounding on the state of the nation. The second piece is an extended work based on a theme by Villa-Lobos called Prelude by retitled by Max Roach as "A Variation". It again offers extended solo opportunities for everyone to say their say. The band is so fine that these extended performances stand up and never drag on. "Speak Brother Speak" celebrates the accomplishments of Dr.Martin Luther King and Martin Luther King Day today January 15,2024.

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Track Listing:

The Dream/It's Time
Max Roach · Chattahoochee Red
Speak Brother Speak!
Max Roack · Speak Brother Speak!
A Variation
Max Roach · Speak Brither Speak!++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Music in the Air
Jon Hendricks · A Good Get-Together
Pretty Strange
Jon Hendricks · A Good Get-Together
The Shouter
Jon Hendricks · A Good Get-Together
Social Call
Jon Hendricks · A Good Get-Together
Out of the Past
Jon Hendricks · A Good Get-Together
Feed Me
Jon Hendricks · A Good Get-Together
China Boy
Benny Goodman Trio · Carnegie Hall Concert
Dizzy Spells
Benny Goodman Quartet · Carnegie Hall Concert
Sing Sing Sing
Benny Goodman Band · Carnegie Hall Concert
Mai We Go Round
Kenny Wheeler · Around 6
Solo One
Kenny Wheeler · Around 6
Tonk
The Jazztet · Here and Now.
Cold Duck Time
Rusty Bryant · Soul Liberation
Freeze-Dried Soul
Rusty Bryant · Soul Liberation