M'Boom

M'Boom
M'Boom
	M'Boom at a jazz workshop at hosted by Amherst University, January 26, 1974
Background information
Genres	Jazz
Years active	1970–1990s
Labels	Baystate, Columbia, Soul Note, Blue Moon
Members	Joe Chambers; Warren Smith; Bobby Sanabria;
Past members	Joe Chambers; Max Roach; Ray Mantilla; Roy Brooks; Warren Smith; Freddie Waits; Omar Clay; Eli Fountain; Fred King; Craig McIver; Eddie Allen; Francisco Mora Catlett; Kenyatte Abdur-Rahman; Steve Berrios; Richard "Pablo" Landrum; Ray Mantilla;

M'Boom was an American jazz percussion group founded by drummer Max Roach in 1970. The original members were Roach, Roy Brooks, Warren Smith, Joe Chambers, Omar Clay, Ray Mantilla, and Freddie Waits.

All of M'Boom's members are and always have been percussionists, employing numerous percussion instruments besides the drums. These include bells, gongs, marimba, timpani, vibraphone, xylophone, and musical saw.^[1]

Discography

1973: Re: Percussion (Strata-East)
1973: Re: Percussion (Baystate)
1979: M'Boom (Columbia)
1984: Collage (Soul Note)
1991: To the Max! (Enja)
1992: Live at S.O.B.'s New York (Blue Moon)

References

^ Yanow, Scott. "M'Boom | Biography & History | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 18 December 2016.

External links

Concert Review, New York Times, June 27, 1986
"Max Roach and M'Boom: Diasporic Soundings in American Percussion Music", thesis by Sean Leah Bowden (2018)

[Yanow-1] Yanow, Scott. "M'Boom | Biography & History | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 18 December 2016.

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v t e Joe Chambers
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Studio albums	The Almoravid (1973) New World (1976) Double Exposure (1977) Lend Me Your Ears (with Jeremy Steig and Eddie Gómez, 1978) Mirrors (1998)
Related articles	M'Boom

v t e Max Roach
Albums	The Max Roach Quartet featuring Hank Mobley (1953) Max Roach + 4 (1956) Jazz in 3/4 Time (1956–57) The Max Roach 4 Plays Charlie Parker (1957–58) Award-Winning Drummer (1958) Booker Little 4 and Max Roach (1958) MAX (1958) Max Roach + 4 on the Chicago Scene (1958) Max Roach + 4 at Newport (1958) Max Roach with the Boston Percussion Ensemble (1958) Deeds, Not Words (1958) Moon Faced and Starry Eyed (with Abbey Lincoln, 1959) Quiet as It's Kept (1959) Rich Versus Roach (and Buddy Rich, 1959) The Many Sides of Max (1959) Long as You're Living (1960) Parisian Sketches (1960) We Insist! (1960) Percussion Bitter Sweet (1961) It's Time (1962) Money Jungle (and Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, 1962) Speak, Brother, Speak! (1962) The Max Roach Trio Featuring the Legendary Hasaan (and Hasaan Ibn Ali, 1964) Drums Unlimited (1965) Members, Don't Git Weary (1968) Lift Every Voice and Sing (1971) Re: Percussion (M'Boom, Strata-East, 1973) Birth and Rebirth (and Anthony Braxton, 1978) Historic Concerts (and Cecil Taylor, 1979) M'Boom (1979) One in Two – Two in One (and Anthony Braxton, 1979) Pictures in a Frame (1979) The Long March (and Archie Shepp, 1979) In the Light (1982) Live at Vielharmonie (1983) Collage (M'Boom, 1984) It's Christmas Again (1984) Scott Free (1984) Survivors (1984) Easy Winners (1985) Bright Moments (1986) Max + Dizzy: Paris 1989 (and Dizzy Gillespie, 1989) To the Max! (1990–91)
With Clifford Brown	Best Coast Jazz (1954) Brown and Roach Incorporated (1954) Clifford Brown All Stars (1954) Clifford Brown & Max Roach (1954–55) Daahoud (1954) Jam Session (and Clark Terry, Maynard Ferguson, 1954) Clifford Brown with Strings (1955) Study in Brown (1955) Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street (1956)
Compilations	Alone Together: The Best of the Mercury Years (1954–60)
Related articles	M'Boom

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