"Speak, Brother, Speak!": Max Roach Quartet at the Jazz Workshop

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Recorded at the famed San Francisco club, this album features the virtuosic drummer leading a deeply adventurous, piano-less quartet featuring Clifford Jordan on tenor saxophone. Comprising only two extended, side-long improvisations, the ensemble utilizes the open harmonic space to engage in incredibly dense, telepathic rhythmic interplay. The ferocious performance perfectly bridges advanced hard bop structures with the emerging freedoms of the avant-garde.