Personnel
Max Roach
leader · Drums
Brown and Roach led this band as equal co-leaders. Roach's drumming engages in constant dialogue with Brown's melodic improvising, and these 1954 Hollywood studio recordings capture the band at its peak.
HL
Harold Landcoming soon
played Saxophone on this album
RP
Richie Powellcoming soon
played Piano on this album
GM
George Morrowcoming soon
played Double Bass on this album
The 1954–56 Clifford BrownClifford Brownクリフォード・ブラウン-Max Roach
Max Roachマックス・ローチ Quintet refined bebop's vocabulary to a peak of elegance. When Brownie died at 26 in 1956, the abrupt end left Rollins asking what to do next — a question that produced Saxophone Colossus
Saxophone ColossusSonny Rollins · 1956.
Around 1954