The Max Roach Trio Featuring the Legendary Hasaan

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The Max Roach Trio Featuring the Legendary Hasaan
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Studio album by
Max Roach Trio
ReleasedMarch 1965 [1]
RecordedDecember 4 & 7, 1964
New York City
Genre
Length41:07
Label Atlantic
LP 1435
Producer Arif Mardin
Max Roach chronology
Speak, Brother, Speak!
(1962)		The Max Roach Trio Featuring the Legendary Hasaan
(1965)		 Drums Unlimited
(1965-66)

The Max Roach Trio Featuring the Legendary Hasaan is an album by American jazz drummer Max Roach with pianist Hasaan Ibn Ali, recorded in 1964 and released on the Atlantic label in March 1965. [1] [2] It is the only recording featuring Ibn Ali released during his lifetime.

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Record Mirror Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Tom Hull B+ ( Five Pointed Star Solid.svg Five Pointed Star Solid.svg Five Pointed Star Solid.svg ) [6]

Allmusic awarded the album 4½ stars with reviewer Scott Yanow stating: "This is a classic of its kind and it is fortunate that it was made, but it is a tragedy that Hasaan would not record again and that he would soon sink back into obscurity". [3]

Track listing

All compositions by Hasaan Ibn Ali

  1. "Three-Four vs. Six-Eight Four-Four Ways" - 5:40
  2. "Off My Back Jack" - 5:13
  3. "Hope So Elmo" - 3:52
  4. "Almost Like Me" - 6:39
  5. "Din-Ka Street" - 6:08
  6. "Pay Not Play Not" - 8:08
  7. "To Inscribe" - 5:00

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 "New Album Releases". Billboard. The Billboard Publishing Co. 13 March 1965. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
  2. ↑ Max Roach discography accessed September 24, 2012
  3. 1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed September 24, 2012
  4. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1221. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  5. ↑ Jones, Peter; Jopling, Norman (11 September 1965). "Max Roach Trio: Featuring The Legendary Hasaan" (PDF). Record Mirror . No. 235. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
  6. ↑ Hull, Tom (June 2, 2020). "Music Week". Tom Hull – On the Web. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
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