M'Boom

by Max Roach

M'Boom cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1980
  • Label: Columbia
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 47:52
  • Community rating: 3.97/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Max Roach's 'M'Boom' documents his percussion ensemble project, which expanded jazz rhythm into a full compositional language. The album uses mallet instruments, drums, and global percussion colors to foreground collective texture rather than a conventional horn-led jazz format.

Genres

Descriptors: rhythmic, complex, improvisation, uncommon-time-signatures, polyphonic, technical, repetitive

Tracklist

  1. Onomatopoeia (5:15)
  2. Twinkle Toes (3:34)
  3. Caravanserai (4:05)
  4. January V (3:23)
  5. The Glorious Monster (6:48)
  6. Rumble In The Jungle (7:13)
  7. Morning / Midday (6:50)
  8. Epistrophy (4:18)
  9. Kujichaglia (6:26)

Credits

  • M'Boom Re:percussion Ensemble - primary artist
  • Joe Chambers - chimes, percussion [multiple], vibraphone, composed by, marimba, marimba, vibraphone, xylophone, arranged by
  • Omar Clay - composed by, percussion [multiple], timbales, marimba, timpani [tympani], xylophone
  • Ray Mantilla - percussion [latin], bells, chimes, triangle, percussion [african]
  • Roy Brooks - temple block, cymbal, bass drum, claves, saw [musical], timpani [tympani], steel drums, composed by, marimba, steel drums
  • Kenny Clarke - composed by
  • Thelonious Monk - composed by

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