Editing Max Roach (section)

==Style==
Roach started as a [[traditional grip]] player but favored [[matched grip]] as his career progressed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.moderndrummer.com/site/2012/09/md-education-team-traditional-grip/|title=Legendary Jazz Drummer Max Roach Dies at 83|date=September 21, 2012|website=Modern Drummer|access-date=October 15, 2016}}</ref>

Roach's most significant innovations came in the 1940s, when he and [[Kenny Clarke]] devised a new concept of musical time. By playing the beat-by-beat pulse of standard 4/4 time on the [[ride cymbal]] instead of on the thudding [[bass drum]], Roach and Clarke developed a flexible, flowing rhythmic pattern that allowed soloists to play freely. This also created space for the drummer to insert dramatic accents on the [[snare drum]], [[crash cymbal]], and other components of the trap set.

By matching his rhythmic attack with a tune's [[melody]], Roach brought a newfound subtlety of expression to the drums. He often shifted the dynamic emphasis from one part of his [[drum kit]] to another within a single phrase, creating a sense of tonal color and rhythmic surprise.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/16/AR2007081601092.html|title=Jazz Musician Max Roach Dies at 83|last=Schudel|first=Matt|date=August 16, 2007|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=May 12, 2010}}</ref> Roach said of the drummer's unique positioning, "In no other society do they have one person play with all four limbs."<ref>''The Week'', August 31, 2007, p. 32.</ref>

While this is common today, when Clarke and Roach introduced the concept in the 1940s it was revolutionary. "When Max Roach's first records with Charlie Parker were released by Savoy in 1945", jazz historian Burt Korall wrote in the ''Oxford Companion to Jazz'', "drummers experienced awe and puzzlement and even fear." One of those drummers, [[Stan Levey]], summed up Roach's importance: "I came to realize that, because of him, drumming no longer was just time, it was music."<ref name="autogenerated1" />

In 1966, with his album ''[[Drums Unlimited]]'' (which includes several tracks that are entirely drum solos) he demonstrated that drums can be a solo instrument able to play theme, variations, and rhythmically cohesive phrases. Roach described his approach to music as "the creation of organized sound."<ref name="aaj">{{cite web|url=http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/musician.php?id=10725|title=Max Roach biography|website=All About Jazz|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080229025907/http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/musician.php?id=10725|archive-date=February 29, 2008|url-status=dead|access-date=April 23, 2008}}</ref> Roach's style has been a big influence on several jazz and rock drummers, most notably [[Joe Morello]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.moderndrummer.com/2006/09/joe-morello/|title=Joe Morello: Revisiting A Master|date=September 25, 2006|website=Modern Drummer magazine|access-date=January 27, 2023}}</ref> [[Tony Williams (drummer)|Tony Williams]],<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uHmDEwUmo_EC&dq=%22Art+Blakey+was+my+first+drum+idol%2C+but+Max+was+the+biggest.+%22&pg=PA79|title=The Drummer's Time: Conversations with the Great Drummers of Jazz|date=February 22, 2019|author=Rick Mattingly|access-date=January 27, 2023|page=79|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation |isbn=9780634001468 }}</ref> [[Peter Erskine]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/peter-erskine-up-front-in-time-and-on-call-peter-erskine-by-jim-worsley|title=Peter Erskine: Up Front, In Time, And On Call, Part 1|date=February 22, 2019|website=All About Jazz|access-date=January 27, 2023}}</ref> [[Billy Cobham]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sickdrummermagazine.com/news/off-beat-interviews/billy-cobham/|title=Billy Cobham|date=March 23, 2009|website=Sick Drummer magazine|access-date=January 27, 2023}}</ref> [[Ginger Baker]],<ref>{{Cite web| title=Ginger Baker interview November 2010| work=retrosellers.com| url=http://www.retrosellers.com/features337.htm| access-date=August 16, 2014| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819084429/http://www.retrosellers.com/features337.htm| archive-date=August 19, 2014| df=dmy-all}}</ref> and [[Mitch Mitchell]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mikedolbear.com/groovers-and-shakers/groovers-and-shakers-mitch-mitchell/|title=Mitch Mitchell|date=April 15, 2017|website=Mike Dolbear|access-date=January 27, 2023}}</ref> The track "The Drum Also Waltzes" was often quoted by [[John Bonham]] in his ''[[Moby Dick (instrumental)|Moby Dick]]'' drum solo and revisited by other drummers, including [[Neil Peart]] and [[Steve Smith (musician)|Steve Smith]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.drummagazine.com/features/post/john-bonhams-influences/|title=Stanton Moore On John Bonham's Influences|date=April 29, 2013|website=Drum Magazine|access-date=October 15, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.moderndrummer.com/site/2009/12/max-roach-2/|title=Max Roach: Setting Standards And Raising Bars|date=December 10, 2009|website=Modern Drummer|access-date=October 17, 2016}}</ref> [[Bill Bruford]] performed a cover of the track on the 1985 album ''[[Flags (Moraz and Bruford album)|Flags]]''.