Max Roach – Jazz In 3/4 Time (VG/VG+) – LP, NL 1969

Jazz In 3/4 Time is an LP by Max Roach from 1969 released on the Mercury International, Mercury label.

About this album

Max Roach’s Jazz In 3/4 Time is a pioneering statement in jazz waltz, turning 3/4 time into a modern, swinging language rather than a novelty. Released in 1957, the album finds Roach using drums as a lead voice, shaping the ensemble’s pulse and momentum with remarkable imagination. Pieces such as Blues Waltz and Valse Hot helped define the record’s identity, balancing melodic grace with rhythmic invention. As one of Roach’s most distinctive mid-1950s albums, it reflects the period when hard bop was widening its rhythmic vocabulary and showing how adventurous modern jazz could remain deeply musical.

Genre: Jazz

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