ROACH, MAXWELL LEMUEL (MAX
). Jazz drummer ( in Elizabeth City, North Carolina). He obtained his musical education in the public schools of the borough of Brooklyn in New York and at the Manhattan School of Music in New York. During the early 1940s he joined other musicians in after-hours jam sessions
at Clark Monroe's Uptown House and Minton's Playhouse in the Harlem community, where he came into contact with
Charlie Parker
,
Kenneth (Kenny
) Clarke
,
John Birks...