The Max Roach Trio Featuring the Legendary Hasaan

by Max Roach

The Max Roach Trio Featuring the Legendary Hasaan cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1965
  • Label: Atlantic
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 38:44
  • Community rating: 4.55/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A cult classic and the only official recording of the mysterious and brilliant Philadelphia pianist Hasaan Ibn Ali. Hasaan's style was utterly unique, blending the percussive attack of Monk with the virtuosity of Bud Powell into a rhythmically and harmonically complex language all his own. The intense, telepathic interplay between Hasaan and Max Roach on the rhythmically daring compositions makes this a lost masterpiece of adventurous, hard-swinging post-bop.

Genres

Descriptors: piano, polyrhythmic, complex, virtuosic, classic

Tracklist

  1. Three-Four vs. Six-Eight Four-Four Ways (5:32)
  2. Off My Back Jack (5:17)
  3. Hope So Elmo (3:52)
  4. Pay Not Play Not (6:33)
  5. To Inscribe (5:38)
  6. Almost Like Me (5:57)
  7. Din-Ka Street (5:55)

Credits

  • The Max Roach Trio - primary artist
  • Hasaan Ibn Ali - primary artist, piano, written-by
  • Art Davis - bass
  • Marvin Israel - cover [design]
  • Max Roach - drums
  • Tom Dowd - engineer
  • Alan Sukoenig - liner notes
  • Laurence Fink - photography by [cover photo]
  • Arif Mardin - supervised by

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