- Max Roach + 4
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Max Roach + 4 Studio album by Max Roach Released October 12, 1956 Recorded September 17, 1956 Genre Jazz, Hard bop Length 37:38 Label Columbia Producer Bob Shad Max Roach + 4 is an LP recorded by jazz drummer Max Roach, which featured Kenny Dorham on trumpet, Sonny Rollins on tenor sax, Ray Bryant on piano, and George Morrow on bass. It was the first album Roach recorded after the death of his trumpeter Clifford Brown, and pianist Richie Powell, in a car crash in June 1956.
Track listing
- "Ezz-Thetic" (George Russell) – 9:18
- "Dr. Free-Zee" (Max Roach) – 2:06
- "Just One of Those Things" (Cole Porter) – 7:18
- "Mr X." (Roach) – 5:15
- "Body and Soul" (Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton, Johnny Green) – 6:50
- "Woody 'N' You" (Dizzy Gillespie) – 6:51
Reissue includes
- "It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" (Duke Ellington & Irving Mills) - 4:45
- "Love Letters" - 8:57
- "Minor Trouble" - 6:58
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- Albums produced by Bob Shad
- EmArcy Records albums
- 1956 albums
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