Deeds, Not Words

by Max Roach

Deeds, Not Words cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1958
  • Label: Riverside
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 32:40
  • Community rating: 4.08/5 from 5 ratings

Artists on this release: Booker Little, Ray Draper, George Coleman, Art Davis

Album Notes & Community Reviews

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

Descriptors: percussive, improvisation, ensemble, dynamic, polyrhythmic

Tracklist

  1. You Stepped Out of a Dream (7:44)
  2. Filide (7:00)
  3. It's You or No One (4:07)
  4. Jodie's Cha-Cha (4:47)
  5. Deeds, Not Words (4:32)
  6. Conversation (4:30)

Credits

  • Max Roach - primary artist, drums, written-by
  • Art Davis - bass
  • Paul Bacon - design [cover]
  • Jack Higgins - engineer
  • Lawrence N. Shustak - photography by
  • Orrin Keepnews - producer, liner notes
  • George Coleman - tenor saxophone
  • Booker Little - trumpet, written-by
  • Ray Draper - tuba, written-by
  • Gus Kahn - written-by
  • Nacio Herb Brown - written-by
  • Jule Styne And Sammy Cahn - written-by
  • Bill Lee - written-by

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