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Bebop Drumming Authority Kenny Washington On Max Roach
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Max Roach completely changed the language of jazz drumming. Yes, there were drummers before Max who were heading down similar paths. But Max changed the entire conception and sound of the drums-and the way people played them.
Before Max Roach, drummers mostly used the twenty-six-plus rudiments as the basis for their playing. But Max began to take the advanced rhythmic lines that his colleagues Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, and Bud Powell would play, and used them wh...
