Editing Max Roach (section)

==Personal life==

His godson is artist, filmmaker and hip-hop pioneer, [[Fab Five Freddy]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.openskyjazz.com/2019/07/fab-five-freddy-rap-hip-hop-pioneer/|title=Fab 5 Freddy – rap & hip hop pioneer with a jazz pedigree|date=July 17, 2019|website=Open Sky Jazz|access-date=April 18, 2021}}</ref>

From 1962 to 1970 Roach was married to singer [[Abbey Lincoln]]. His daughter Maxine, a violist, appeared on several of Lincoln's albums. In February 1961, Roach and Lincoln, along with others, burst into a meeting of the United Nations Security Council to protest  the murder of [[Patrice Lumumba]], prime minister of the newly independent Congo.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Chini|first=Maïthé|url=https://www.brusselstimes.com/1103100/how-jazz-played-out-over-congos-chaotic-coup|title="How Jazz Played Out Over Congo's Chaotic Coup,"|newspaper=The Brussels Times|date=January 23, 2025}}</ref>

Roach identified himself as a [[Muslim]] in an early 1970s interview with [[Art Taylor]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Taylor |first1=Arthur |title=Notes and Tones: Musician-to-musician interviews |date=1977 |publisher=Da Capo Press |page=106}}</ref>