MAX ROACH AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS (JAZZ REPORT)

[nav0243@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Luther Blissett)]

Ralph Dumain:
>He showed some rare footage from his personal collection, starting
>with a rare TV episode that was thought to be lost, but which
>turned up a year ago.  This was, of all things, and appearance
>with Clifford Brown on the Soupy Sales show in 1955, a year before
>Brown's untimely death.  This is the only filmed appearance of
>Brown, and Soupy found the tape/film after it was buried for four
>decades.  Max was so thrilled that Brown was thus preserved, he
>asked for the tape to be shown again at the end of the program.
>He spoke a bit, and took questions between each video.  I might be
>forgetting something, but here is the itinerary.  The second clip
>was a video collaboration with a video artist who visually
>composed while Max drummed.
>There was also a video from Italy in which Max jammed with Cecil
>Taylor.  The only way to listen to Cecil is as another percussion
>instrument; otherwise he is insufferable.  Max worked his ass off
>keeping up with that fast high energy stuff.  He was quite proud
>of that collaboration.  He said the way he would rehearse with
>Cecil was not to play music but to talk politics.

I've two nice video with Roach. One is a 3 takes video with double quartet,=
 a solo (Mr. Hi Hat dedicated to Papa Jo), M'Boom Re percussion. The second=
 is a TV Video concert with his quartet (O. Pope, C. Bridgewater, and... I=
 forgot the name of bassist), followed Cecil Taylor' solo (beautiful) and=
 Joe Henderson' solo.

Some years ago Giovanni Bonandrini (Black Saint/Soul Note boss) said me that=
 he had got several video. I can ask him if he has the Taylor/Roach duet=
 (Historical Concert).

>Only beauty is revolutionary!
I think so but... *Beauty is the rare thing*!!! :-)
LB




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