Celebrating Max Roach and Championing Equality & Social Justice through Music: Yale Jazz Ensemble

Wed Mar 6, 7:30 – 9 pm

Hosted by Yale Bands
Details Yale Jazz Ensemble Big Band, Wayne Escoffery, Music Director. Celebrating American drummer and composer Max Roach (1924 – 2007) and his commitment to championing equality and social justice through music. 

Feat. two movements of Roach’s avant-garde jazz album and vocal-instrumental suite We Insist!” (subtitled Freedom Now”) on themes related to the Civil Rights Movement. Both movements were orchestrated and arranged specifically for the YJE Big Band by Michael Philip Mossman.

Roach was a pioneer of bepop, but worked in many other styles of music and with various musicians including Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Abbey Lincoln, Dinah Washington, Charles Mingus, Billy Eckstine, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Eric Dolphy, Booker Little, and more. He was inducted into the DownBeat Hall of Fame in 1980 and the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1992.

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203 – 432-4111
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Admission FREE
Location Stephanie Hubbard
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  • 470 College St
  • 479 College Street
  • New Haven, CT
  • 06511
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