Editing Max Roach (section)

=== As leader/co-leader ===
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* 1953: ''[[The Max Roach Quartet featuring Hank Mobley]]'' ([[Debut Records|Debut]], 1954)
* 1956: ''[[Max Roach + 4]]'' ([[EmArcy Records|EmArcy]], 1956)
* 1956-57: ''[[Jazz in 3/4 Time]]'' (EmArcy, 1957)
* 1957-58: ''[[The Max Roach 4 Plays Charlie Parker]]'' (EmArcy, 1959)
* 1957-58: ''Percussion Discussion'' with [[Art Blakey]] (Chess, 1976)[2LP]
* 1958: ''[[MAX (album)|MAX]]'' ([[Argo Records|Argo]], 1958)
* 1958: ''[[Max Roach + 4 on the Chicago Scene]]'' ([[Mercury Records|Mercury]], 1958)
* 1958: ''[[Max Roach + 4 at Newport]]'' (EmArcy, 1958) – live
* 1958: ''[[Max Roach with the Boston Percussion Ensemble]]'' (EmArcy, 1958) – live
* 1958: ''[[Deeds, Not Words]]'' ([[Riverside Records|Riverside]]) – also released as ''Conversation'' (Jazzland, 1963)
* 1958: ''[[Award-Winning Drummer]]'' ([[Time Records|Time]], 1959) – also released as ''Max Roach'' (Time, 1962)
* 1958: ''Max Roach/Bud Shank – Sessions'' with [[Bud Shank]] (Calliope, 1976)
* 1958: ''[[Booker Little 4 and Max Roach|The Defiant Ones]]'' with [[Booker Little]] (United Artists, 1959)
* 1959: ''[[The Many Sides of Max]]'' (Mercury, 1964)
* 1959: ''[[Rich Versus Roach]]'' with [[Buddy Rich]] (Mercury, 1959)
* 1959: ''[[Quiet as It's Kept]]'' (Mercury, 1960)
* 1959: ''[[Moon Faced and Starry Eyed]]'' with [[Abbey Lincoln]] (Mercury, 1959)
* 1960: ''[[Long as You're Living]]'' ([[Enja Records|Enja]], 1984)
* 1960: ''[[Parisian Sketches]]'' (Mercury, 1960)
* 1960: ''[[We Insist!]]'' ([[Candid Records|Candid]], 1960)
* 1961: ''[[Percussion Bitter Sweet]]'' with [[Mal Waldron]] ([[Impulse! Records|Impulse!]], 1961)
* 1962: ''[[It's Time (Max Roach album)|It's Time]]'' with Mal Waldron (Impulse!, 1962)
* 1962: ''[[Speak, Brother, Speak!]]'' ([[Fantasy Records|Fantasy]], 1963)
* 1964: ''[[The Max Roach Trio Featuring the Legendary Hasaan]]'' with [[Hasaan Ibn Ali]] ([[Atlantic Records|Atlantic]], 1965)
* 1965–66: ''[[Drums Unlimited]]'' (Atlantic, 1966)
* 1968: ''[[Members, Don't Git Weary]]'' (Atlantic, 1968)
* 1971: ''[[Lift Every Voice and Sing (album)|Lift Every Voice and Sing]]'' with the J.C. White Singers (Atlantic, 1971)
* 1976: ''Force'' with [[Archie Shepp]] (Uniteledis, 1976)[2LP]
* 1976: ''Nommo'' ([[Victor Records|Victor]], 1978)
* 1977: ''Live in Tokyo'' Vol.1 & Vol.2 ([[Denon Records|Denon]], 1977) – live
* 1977?: ''The Loadstar'' (Horo, 1977)[2LP]
* 1977: '' Live In Amsterdam'' ([[Baystate Records|Baystate]], 1979) – live
* 1977: ''Solos'' (Baystate, 1978)
* 1977: ''Streams of Consciousness'' with [[Abdullah Ibrahim|Dollar Brand]] (Baystate, 1978)
* 1978: ''Confirmation'' ([[Fluid Records|Fluid]], 1978)
* 1978: ''[[Birth and Rebirth]]'' with [[Anthony Braxton]] ([[Black Saint Records|Black Saint]], 1978)
* 1979: ''[[The Long March (album)|The Long March]]'' with [[Archie Shepp]] ([[Hathut Records|Hathut]], 1979) – live
* 1979: ''[[Historic Concerts]]'' with [[Cecil Taylor]] (Black Saint, 1984) – live
* 1979: ''[[One in Two – Two in One]]'' with [[Anthony Braxton]] (Hathut, 1979) – live
* 1979: ''[[Pictures in a Frame]]'' ([[Soul Note Records|Soul Note]]9) – live
* 1981?: ''Chattahoochee Red'' ([[Columbia Records|Columbia]], 1981)
* 1981: ''Live at Blues Alley'' ([[MVD Entertainment Group|MVD Visual]], 2011)[DVD-Video] – live
* 1982: ''Swish'' with [[Connie Crothers]] ([[New Artists Records|New Artists]], 1982)
* 1982: ''[[In the Light (Max Roach album)|In the Light]]'' (Soul Note, 1982)
* 1983: ''[[Live at Vielharmonie]]'' (Soul Note, 1985) – live
* 1984: ''[[Scott Free (album)|Scott Free]]'' (Soul Note, 1985)
* 1984: ''[[It's Christmas Again]]'' (Soul Note, 1987)
* 1984: ''[[Survivors (Max Roach album)|Survivors]]'' (Soul Note, 1984)
* 1985: ''[[Easy Winners (album)|Easy Winners]]'' (Soul Note, 1985)
* 1986: ''[[Bright Moments (Max Roach album)|Bright Moments]]'' (Soul Note, 1986)
* 1989: ''[[Max + Dizzy: Paris 1989]]'' with [[Dizzy Gillespie]] ([[A&M Records|A&M]], 1990) – live
* 1991: ''[[To the Max!]]'' (Enja, 1992)
* 1993, 95: ''With the New Orchestra of Boston and the So What Brass Quintet'' ([[Blue Note Records|Blue Note]], 1996)
* 1999?: ''Beijing Trio'' with [[Jon Jang]], [[Jiebing Chen]] ([[Asian Improv Records|Asian Improv]], 1999)
* 2002?: ''Friendship'' with [[Clark Terry]] (Columbia, 2002)
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'''Co-leader with [[Clifford Brown]]''' <br />
(Originally The Max Roach All Stars featuring Clifford Brown, renamed after the death of Clifford Brown)
* 1954: ''[[Best Coast Jazz]]'' ([[EmArcy Records|EmArcy]], 1956)
* 1954: ''[[Clifford Brown All Stars]]'' ([EmArcy, 1956)
* 1954: ''[[Jam Session (album)|Jam Session]]'' with [[Maynard Ferguson]] and [[Clark Terry]] (EmArcy, 1954)
* 1954: ''[[Brown and Roach Incorporated]]'' (EmArcy, 1955)
* 1954: ''[[Daahoud]]'' ([[Mainstream Records]], 1973)
* 1954 : ''[[Clifford Brown & Max Roach|Clifford Brown and Max Roach]]'' (EmArcy, 1954)
* 1954: ''More Study in Brown'' (EmArcy, 1983)
* 1955: ''[[Clifford Brown with Strings]]'' (EmArcy, 1955)
* 1955: ''[[Study in Brown]]'' (EmArcy, 1955)
* 1955: ''Raw Genius - Live at Bee Hive Chicago 1955'' Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 with Max Roach (Victor, 1977) – Japan only
* 1955: ''Live at The Bee Hive'' (Columbia, 1979)[2LP] – the same recording source
* 1956: ''[[Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street]]'' (EmArcy, 1956)

'''Co-leader with [[M'Boom]]'''
* 1973: ''[[Re: Percussion]]'' ([[Strata-East Records|Strata-East]], 1973)
* 1979: ''[[M'Boom (album)|M'Boom]]'' ([[Columbia Records|Columbia]], 1979)
* 1984: ''[[Collage (M'Boom album)|Collage]]'' ([[Soul Note]], 1984)
* 1992: ''Live at S.O.B.'s New York'' (Blue Moon, 1992) – live
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'''Compilation'''
* ''[[Alone Together: The Best of the Mercury Years]]'' ([[Verve Records|Verve]], 1995) – rec. 1954–60