biography
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| (1924– )
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| biography:
| Jazz musician, born in New Land, North Carolina, USA. The premier modern jazz drummer, he was raised in Brooklyn, studied at the Manhattan School of Music, and recorded with Coleman Hawkins in 1943. Over the next four years, he played with Benny Carter, Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, and Hawkins. He joined Charlie Parker's trailblazing quintet (1947–9), then freelanced as a session player and with Jazz at the Philharmonic and the Lighthouse All-Stars until 1954. In 1954–6, he and Clifford Brown formed one of the most highly regarded groups in modern jazz. After Brown's death, Roach maintained a succession of groups while pursuing a wide range of activities as a composer and educator, particularly as a professor of music at the University of Massachusetts (1972). |
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