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Elizabeth City State University has several free events scheduled to celebrate the centennial of Elizabeth City native and groundbreaking jazz drummer Max Roach.
Ayodele Casel leads a program celebrating Roach’s centenary that also includes works by Rennie Harris as well as by Ronald K. Brown and Arcell Cabuag.
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In December 1989, I went to Town Hall for the ten-year reunion concert of Cecil Taylor and Max Roach, revisiting and renewing their historic live performance at Columbia University. That first concert was released as Historic Concerts in 1984 on the Soul Note label. The concert is one of those musical experiences permanently embedded in my memory, the shape and feeling of literally ducking down behind the seat in front of me because the torrent of onrushing ideas was overwhelming and seemed a little dangerous still vivid in my body.
In honor of the 140th anniversary of Rivermont Collegiate in Bettendorf, one of Iowa’s top private K-12 schools, Bettendorf Mayor Robert Gallagher has officially declared Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024, as “Rivermont Collegiate Day.” In a special ceremony held at the school on Friday, March 29, the mayor presented Max Roach, the Rivermont headmaster, with the […]