Deeds, Not Words

by Max Roach

Deeds, Not Words cover art

A forward-looking album that showcases Roach not merely as a drummer, but as a composer and conceptualist interested in new sonic possibilities. The session prefigures the free jazz explorations of the 1960s.

Genres

  • Hard Bop
  • Post-Bop

Tracklist

  1. You Stepped Out of a Dream
  2. Filide
  3. It's You or No One
  4. Jodie's Cha-Cha
  5. Deeds, Not Words
  6. Conversation