Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
Documentary on legendary jazz drummer, bebop pioneer and civil rights activist Max Roach (1924-2007). In collaboration with Jazz Maastricht.
Documentary
MAX ROACH: THE DRUM ALSO WALTZES is the story of a musician whose far-reaching ambitions were inspired and challenged by the inequities of the society around him. His stunningly diverse seven-decade career marked him as one of the great musical artists of the twentieth century and a pioneering cultural activist at times when the American nation was steeped in racism. Roach’s life was an epic (musical) journey – from the revolutionary jazz of the 1940s to the heyday of the African-American Civil Rights Movement, through experiments in hip hop, multi-media works, and beyond.
Sam Pollard & Ben Shapiro, USA, 2023, 82 min. English spoken, without subtitles.