Max Roach - Live In Tokyo Vol.1

[marcoliv]

Spotted this on a 2nd hand store but it's sealed.

Any opinions?

Thanks in advance!

MCO

[JohnS]

Not played for a while but if you like the quartet with Harper and the siedlong tracks, yes. I'd probably find it a bit tough going now but when I bought mine I liked it.

[David Ayers]

Then join the search for an affordable Nommo! And then join the search for the other Nommo! And then - well that's it, you're done. The end of a lifelong quest.

[BFrank]

Don't delay.......do it today!

[JSngry]

Outstanding, I think. That band could be on fire, and was here.

Not so much Cecil Bridgewater, however, but still, when he's up, he don't suck, and that's when you can go ahead and shift the focus to Max, who on occasions like this was The Most Dangerous Drummer Who Ever Lived.

[clifford_thornton]

Yeah, I like that record. Got it for about $15, I think. Don't have the other volume, but the Horo and the Fluid are also "nice."

[BFrank]

I have a cassette of this and Vol. 2 that someone (maybe on this board? I don't remember now) made for me a few years ago. There's so little available material of this band, it's worth grabbing anything you can get your hands on.

[David Ayers]

Edited to add: moved this to another thread to try to get an answer.

On a very nearly related topic, I was going to pick up the Jazzwerkstatt issue of Max Roach in Berlin originally released on Repertoire. I only have one of the Reprtoire originals which was the Ornette one and find the sound poor, so wonder if anyone can comment on the sound of the Roach. But I also noticed that the Repertoire featured 8 tracks and the Jazzwerkstatt only five and wonder if anyone knows anything about that?

Discographies show these tracks for the Repertoire release:

Max Roach - Jazzbuhne Berlin '84, Vol. 2 (Repertoire (G) RR 4902-CC)

Cecil Bridgewater (tp) Odean Pope (ts) Tyrone Brown (el-b) Max Roach (d, vo)

Berlin, West Germany, July 16, 1984

Good Bait

I Remember Clifford

Jordu

Giant Steps

Six Bits

Perdido

Papa Jo

(I'll Be Glad When You're Dead) You Rascal You

"Vol 2" refers to the Repertoire series number and not to any prior Roach volume.

Any insights?

Edited May 9, 2011 by David Ayers

[bertrand]

Is 'Six Bits' a different tune than the one credited to Manny Albam which appears on KD's Arrival of KD on Jaro?

Thanks,

Bertrand.

[David Ayers]

I don't know on six bits I don't have the album.

[jeffcrom]

Is 'Six Bits' a different tune than the one credited to Manny Albam which appears on KD's Arrival of KD on Jaro?

Thanks,

Bertrand.

Yes, Max's "Six Bits" (or "Six Bits Blues") is an original with a 12/8 blues feel, inspired by a Langston Hughes poem:

Gimme six-bits' worth o' ticket

On a train that runs somewhere.

I say six-bits' worth o' ticket

On a train that runs somewhere.

I don't care where it's goin'

Just so it goes away from here.

It's also on The Loadstar on Horo.

[marcoliv]

Ok guys, i'll go back tomorrow and get it if it's still available.

Thanks as usual!!

MCO