Speak, Brother, Speak!

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Speak, Brother, Speak!
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Live album by
Released1963
RecordedOctober 27, 1962
VenueThe Jazz Workshop, San Francisco, California
Genre Jazz
Length45:33
Label Fantasy
LP 6007
Max Roach chronology
The Charles Mingus Quintet & Max Roach
(1963)
Speak, Brother, Speak!
(1963)
The Max Roach Trio featuring the Legendary Hasaan
(1964)

Speak, Brother, Speak! is a live album by American jazz drummer Max Roach featuring performances recorded in San Francisco in 1962 and released by the Fantasy label. [1]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Down Beat Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [4]
Tom Hull A− [5]

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars stating: "The music is somewhere between hard bop and the avant-garde, and the musicians really push each other, although the results are not quite essential. Clifford Jordan fans in particular will find this to be an interesting set". [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Max Roach except as indicated

  1. "Speak, Brother, Speak" (Clifford Jordan, Eddie Khan, Max Roach, Mal Waldron) - 25:03
  2. "A Variation" - 20:30

Personnel

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References

  1. Max Roach discography accessed September 24, 2012
  2. 1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed September 24, 2012
  3. Down Beat: August 15, 1963 vol. 30, no. 23
  4. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1220. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  5. Hull, Tom (June 2, 2020). "Music Week". Tom Hull – On the Web. Retrieved June 20, 2020.