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SR-60911: The Many Sides Of Max / The Max Roach Quintet

[Front Cover] Label Type : gold Mercury type B promotional
Matrix Number : SIDE-A SR 60911-A- M1    RR
SIDE-B SR 60911-B- M1    RR


Comments

Originally intended as Mercury MG-20457 (mono) / SR-60140 (stereo) entitled “A Little Sweet”, but unreleased for over five years.

Equivalent release: Mercury MG-20911 (mono),

promotional copy (for broadcast) with gold Mercury label.

with original Mercury inner sleeve.

Inside The Groove

Refreshing and boppish nice sessions by The Max Roach Plus Four, featuring Booker Little.

Personal Impression (and brief notes)

This 1959 session by Max Roach Plus Four was their second studio session featuring the legendary trumpeter Booker Little (BTW their first LP was EmArcy MG-36132). Also, they have another live LP EmArcy MG-36140 (mono) / SR-80010 (stereo).

This session was originally intended as Mercury MG-20457 (mono) / SR-60140 (stereo), but unreleased by an unknown reason. Then in 1964, all the tracks made public on this album.

Again, Booker Little's brilliant trumpet proves the entire session was a great one. B-1 “Tympanalli”, with an overdubbed tympani performance (by Max Roach himself) also sounds very interesting.

Strictly Personal Rating (to what extent I could enjoy this album)

9 out of 10



Track Listing

SIDE-A
A-1 JB463-5 (18137-5) Prelude (Consuela Lee Morehead) 5:06
A-2 JB454-9 (18128-9) Lepa (Richard Abrams) 2:08
A-3 JB455-7 (18129-7) Connie's Bounce (Bill Lee) 5:18
A-4 JB467-7 (18141-7) A Little Sweet (Max Roach) 3:07
SIDE-B
B-1 JB465-5 (18139-5) Tympanalli (Max Roach) 4:49
B-2 JB464-11 (18138-11) Bemsha Swing (Thelonious Monk) 5:25
B-3 JB466-4 (18140-4) There's No You (Tom Adair - Hal Hopper - George Durgom) 5:45

Personnel


Personnel/recorded date/master numbers confirmed with the Ruppli's discography.
(“The Mercury Labels - A Discography” by Ruppli and Novitsky, Greenwood Press, 1993)

Although the Ruppli's book denotes this session was at the Mercury Sound Studio, NYC on Sep. 22, 1959, Mosaic's most recent 7CD box (MD7-201) says it was at the Fine Recording Studio, NYC on Jan. 22, 1959.

Booker Little (tp), Julian Priester (tb), George Coleman (ts),
Art Davis (b), Max Roach (ds).
Recorded at Fine Recording, New York City on January 22, 1959.

The Artist Also Appears on...

Max Roach (ds, ldr) :
  • EmArcy MG-26043 10-inch : Clifford Brown & Max Roach
  • EmArcy MG-36008 : Clifford Brown & Max Roach Incorporated
  • EmArcy MG-36036 : Clifford Brown & Max Roach
  • EmArcy MG-36037 : Study In Brown / Clifford Brown & Max Roach
  • EmArcy MG-36070 : Clifford Brown & Max Roach At Basin Street
  • EmArcy MG-36098 : Max Roach Plus Four
  • EmArcy MG-36108 / SR-80002 : Jazz In Three-Quarter Time
  • EmArcy MG-36127 / SR-80019 : Max Roach Plus Four Plays Charlie Parker
  • EmArcy MG-36132 : Max Roach Plus Four On The Chicago Scene
  • EmArcy MG-36140 / SR-80010 : Max Roach Plus Four At Newport
  • EmArcy MG-36144 / SR-80015 : Max Roach With The Boston Percussion Ensemble
  • Mercury MG-20448 / SR-60133 : Rich Versus Roach / Buddy Rich & Max Roach
  • Mercury MG-20491 / SR-60170 : Quiet As It's Kept
  • Mercury MG-20524 / SR-60201 : Max Roach Plus Four At Newport (reissue of MG-36140 / SR-80010)
  • Mercury MG-20529 / SR-60206 : Max Roach With The Boston Percussion Ensemble (reissue of MG-36144 / SR-80015)
  • Mercury MG-20532 / SR-60209 : Max Roach 4 Plays Charlie Parker (reissue of MG-36127 / SR-80019)
  • Mercury MG-20538 / SR-60193 : Jazz In Three-Quartet Time (reissue of MG-36108 / SR-80002)
  • Mercury MG-20539 / SR-60215 : Moon Faced And Starry Eyed
  • Mercury MG-20559 / SR-60128 : Max Roach Plus Four On The Chicago Scene (reissue of MG-36132)
  • Mercury MG-20760 / SR-60760 : Parisian Sketches
  • Mercury MG-20911 / SR-60911 : The Many Sides Of Max
  • EmArcy MG-36000 : Dinah Jams Featuring Dinah Washington
  • EmArcy MG-36002 : Jam Session / Various Artists
  • EmArcy MG-36003 : Clifford Brown With Strings
  • EmArcy MG-36009 : Jam Session Featuring Maynard Ferguson
  • EmArcy MG-36039 : Best Coast Jazz / Various Artists
  • EmArcy MG-36043 : Julian “Cannonball” Adderley
  • EmArcy MG-36066 : Introducing Jimmy Cleveland and his All-Stars
  • EmArcy MG-36102 : Caravan / Clifford Brown All-Stars
  • EmArcy MG-36141 / SR-80019 : Newport '58 / Various Artists
  • Mercury MG-35012 / MG C-102 / MG C-502 10-inch : Piano Solos / Bud Powell
  • Mercury MG C-109 10-inch : Flip Phillips Collates
  • Mercury MG C-507 10-inch : Piano Solos, No.2 / Bud Powell
  • Mercury MG C-512 10-inch : Bird & Diz / Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie
  • Mercury MG C-513 10-inch : Charlie Parker Plays South Of The Border
  • Mercury MG-20523 / SR-60200 : Newport '58 / Various Artists (reissue of MG-36141 / SR-80009)




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Labels

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