Drum Master Max Roach: "Speak Brother Speak!"

Tonight's Jazz Feature is a recording done at San Francisco's Jazz Workshop on October 27,1962 by the Max Roach Quartet with drum master Max Roach at the helm with Clifford Jordan on tenor saxophone, Mal Waldron on piano and Eddie Khan on bass. Two extended works are featured. The first is the title track "Speak Brother Speak" depicts speakers on a soapbox expounding on the state of the nation. The second piece is an extended work based on a theme by Villa-Lobos called Prelude by retitled by Max Roach as "A Variation". It again offers extended solo opportunities for everyone to say their say. The band is so fine that these extended performances stand up and never drag on. "Speak Brother Speak" celebrates the accomplishments of Dr.Martin Luther King and Martin Luther King Day today January 15,2024.