In the process of recording "We Insist 2025!," her tribute to drummer Max Roach, Carrington reflected on how issues of ...

Protest music is on the rise as it should be. We Insist! Max Roach’s "Freedom Now Suite" (1960), an important collaboration ...

The jazz drummer and composer joins forces with vocalist Christie Dashiell to recast Max Roach’s influential 1960 suite, ...

So when Grammy-winning jazz drummer Terri Lyne Carrington set out this year to pay homage to one of her stick-wielding idols, the legendary Max Roach, by revisiting his seminal 1961 album ...

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He was probably best known for his long tenure with Miles Davis, who praised his ability to “keep the groove going forever.” ...

She was a concert promoter, a nightclub impresario and the producer of an award-winning 1992 film about the Nicholas Brothers ...

Jazz drummer Al Foster, who played with the likes of Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, and Sonny Rollins has died. He was 82. NPR ...

Foster also played in the bands of Sonny Rollins, McCoy Tyner, Joe Henderson, and can be heard on Davis’ studio LPs On the ...

Al Foster, full name Aloysius Tyrone Foster, was born in Virginia in 1943 and grew up in Harlem. Foster was inspired to get ...

Al Foster, the jazz drummer who performed in groundbreaking bands with Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock and Sonny Rollins, has ...

Al Foster, the drummer whose percussion sound illuminated the jazz genres of hard bop, died on May 28 at his apartment in New York City.