Long as You're Living

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Long as You're Living
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Live album by Max Roach
Released 1984
Recorded February 5, 1960
Fruit Hall, Kaiserslautern, West Germany
Genre Jazz
Length53:05
Label Enja
ENJ 4074
Producer Joachim-Ernst Berendt
Max Roach chronology
Moon Faced and Starry Eyed
(1959)		Long as You're Living
(1984)		 Parisian Sketches
(1960)

Long as You're Living is a live album by American jazz drummer Max Roach, featuring tracks recorded in West Germany in 1960 and released on the Enja label. [1]

Max Roach American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer

Maxwell Lemuel Roach was an American jazz drummer and composer. A pioneer of bebop, he worked in many other styles of music, and is generally considered alongside the most important drummers in history. He worked with many famous jazz musicians, including Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Abbey Lincoln, Dinah Washington, Charles Mingus, Billy Eckstine, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Eric Dolphy, and Booker Little. He was inducted into the DownBeat Hall of Fame in 1980 and the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1992.

Enja Records record label

Enja Records is a German jazz record company and label based in Munich which was founded by jazz enthusiasts Matthias Winckelmann and Horst Weber in 1971.

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars, with the review by Scott Yanow stating: "Although the playing of The Turrentines is not at the same innovative level as Roach's prior group with Booker Little and George Coleman, they come up with consistently fresh statements during the well-rounded set and the tenorman was already instantly recognizable." [2]

Scott Yanow is an American jazz reviewer, historian, and author.

Booker Little American jazz musician

Booker Little Jr. was an American jazz trumpeter and composer. He appeared on recordings, both as side-man and as leader. Little was closely associated with Max Roach, but also performed with John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy and was strongly influenced by Sonny Rollins and Clifford Brown. He died at age 23.

George Coleman American musician

George Edward Coleman is an American jazz saxophonist known for his work with Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock in the 1960s. In 2015, he was named an NEA Jazz Master.

Track listing

All compositions by Max Roach except as indicated

  1. "Lotus Blossom" (Kenny Dorham) - 7:33
  2. "Drum Conversation" - 6:55
  3. "The Villa" (Dorham) - 7:39
  4. "Long as You're Living" (Julian Priester, Tommy Turrentine) - 10:27
  5. "A Night in Tunisia" (Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Paparelli) - 12:07
  6. "Prelude" (Consuela Lee) - 8:03 Bonus track on CD reissue
  7. "Drum Talk" - 2:17 Bonus track on CD reissue

Personnel

Drum kit collection of drums and other percussion instruments

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum. A drum kit consists of a mix of drums and idiophones – most significantly cymbals, but can also include the woodblock and cowbell. In the 2000s, some kits also include electronic instruments. Also, both hybrid and entirely electronic kits are used.

Thomas Walter Turrentine, Jr. was a swing and hard bop trumpeter and composer of the 1940s to 1960s. He rarely worked as a bandleader, and was known for his work as a sideman with drummer Max Roach and his younger brother, the saxophonist Stanley Turrentine.

Trumpet musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family

A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group contains the instruments with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpet-like instruments have historically been used as signaling devices in battle or hunting, with examples dating back to at least 1500 BC; they began to be used as musical instruments only in the late 14th or early 15th century. Trumpets are used in art music styles, for instance in orchestras, concert bands, and jazz ensembles, as well as in popular music. They are played by blowing air through nearly-closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound that starts a standing wave vibration in the air column inside the instrument. Since the late 15th century they have primarily been constructed of brass tubing, usually bent twice into a rounded rectangular shape.

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References

  1. ↑ Max Roach discography accessed September 24, 2012
  2. 1 2 Yanow, Scott, Allmusic Review, accessed September 24, 2012.
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