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Master Jazz Percussionist Max Roach Dies at 83

Max Roach , the master percussionist whose rhythmic innovations and improvisations defined bebop jazz during a wide-ranging career where he collaborated with artists from Duke Ellington to rapper Fab Five Freddy , has died after a long illness. He was 83.The self-taught musical prodigy died Wednesday night at an undisclosed hospital in Manhattan, said Cem Kurosman, spokesman for Blue Note Records, one of Roach's labels. No additional details were available, he said Thursday.Roach received his first musical break at age 16, filling in for three nights in 1940 when Ellington's drummer fell ill.Roach's performance led him to the legendary Minton's Playhouse in Harlem, where he joined luminaries Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie in the burgeoning bebop movement. In 1944, Roach joined Gillespie and Coleman Hawkins in one of the first bebop recording sessions.What distinguished Roach from other drummers were his fast hands and ability to simultaneously maintain several rhythms. By layering ...

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