Max Roach | Deeds, Not Words | LP
Max Roach | Deeds, Not Words | LP
Max Roach is an American jazz drummer and bandleader and one of the pioneers of bebop. He was born in 1924 in Newland, Pasquotank County, North Carolina, and died in Manhattan, New York City, in 2007. He worked with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins, and taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 1972 to the mid-1990s.
Deeds, Not Words is a 1 disc vinyl LP album by Max Roach, released on 11 July 2025 by Rat Pack Records. This limited reissue of 1,000 copies is newly remastered. Credits include Max Roach on drums, Booker Little on trumpet, George Coleman on tenor saxophone, Art Davis on bass, Ray Draper on tuba and Orrin Keepnews as producer and liner notes.
Track List
- You Stepped Out of a Dream
- Filidé
- It's You Or No One
- Jodie's Cha-cha
- Deeds, Not Words
- Larry-Larue
- Conversation