Drummer yang mempunyai nama asli Maxwell Lemuel Roach ini lahir di Kota Pasquotank, california. Dia bermain drum sejak umur 4 tahun, ibunya adalah seorang penyanyi gospel.
Di tahun 1942 Max memulai bermain musik jazz dan bergabung dengan jazz club di 52nd street, 78th street dan broadway.
ini adalah nama-nama album yang telah dirilis oleh max roach bersama artis jazz lainnya:
- 1944 : Rainbow Mist (with Coleman Hawkins)
- 1944 : Coleman Hawkins and His All Stars (with Coleman Hawkins)
- 1945 : Town Hall, New York, June 22, 1945 (with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker)
- 1945 - 1948: The Complete Savoy Studio Recordings (with Charlie Parker)
- 1946 : Mad Be Bop (with J.J. Johnson)
- 1946 : Opus BeBop (with Stan Getz)
- 1946 : Savoy Jam Party (Don Byas Quartet)
- 1946 : The Hawk Flies (with Coleman Hawkins)
- 1947 : The Bud Powell Trip (with Bud Powell)
- 1947 : Lullaby in Rhythm (with Charlie Parker)
- 1947 : Charlie Parker on Dial (with Charlie Parker)
- 1948 : The Band that Never Was (with Charlie Parker)
- 1948 : Bird on 52nd Street (with Charlie Parker)
- 1948 : Bird at the Roost (with Charlie Parker)
- 1949 : Birth of the Cool (with Miles Davis)
- 1949 - 1953: Charlie Parker – Complete Sessions on Verve (with Charlie Parker)
- 1949 : Charlie Parker in France (with Charlie Parker)
- 1949 : Genesis (with Sonny Stitt)
- 1949 : The Stars of Modern Jazz at Carnegie Hall
- 1950 : The McGhee-Navarro Sextet (with Howard McGhee)
- 1951 : The Amazing Bud Powell (with Bud Powell)
- 1951 : The George Wallington Trip and Septet (with George Wallington)
- 1951 : Conception (with Miles Davis)
- 1952 : New Faces, New Sounds (with Gil Melle)
- 1952 : The Complete Genius (with Thelonious Monk)
- 1952 : Live at Rockland Palace (with Charlie Parker)
- 1953 : Jazz at Massey Hall (with Charlie Parker)
- 1953 : Mambo Jazz (with Joe Holiday)
- 1953 : Yardbird: DC-53 (with Charlie Parker)
- 1953 : Max Roach Quartet (Fantasy)
- 1953 : Max Roach and his Sextet (Debut)
- 1953 : Max Roach Quartet featuring Hank Mobley (Debut)
- 1953 : Jazz at Massey Hall (aka. The Greatest Jazz Concert Ever) (with Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Bud Powell and Dizzy Gillespie)
- 1953 : Miles Ahead (with Miles Davis)
- 1953 : Cohn's Tones (with Al Cohn)
- 1953 : Diz and Getz (with Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Getz)
- 1954 : Brown And Roach Incorporated
- 1954 : Clifford Brown and Max Roach
- 1954 : Study in Brown (with Clifford Brown)
- 1954 : More Study in Brown (with Clifford Brown)
- 1954 : Dinah Jams Featuring Dinah Washington
- 1955 : Clifford Brown with Strings (with Clifford Brown)
- 1955 : Relaxed Piano Moods (with Hazel Scott)
- 1955 : Introducing Jimmy Cleveland And His All Stars (EmArcy)
- 1955 : New Piano Expressions (with John Dennis)
- 1955 : Herbie Nichols Trio (with Herbie Nichols)
- 1955 : Worktime! (with Sonny Rollins)
- 1955 : The Charles Mingus Quartet plus Max Roach (with Charles Mingus)
- 1956 : Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street
- 1956 : Sonny Rollins Plus Four (with Sonny Rollins)
- 1956 : Introducing Johnny Griffin (with Johnny Griffin)
- 1956 : Max Roach + 4
- 1956 : The Magnificent Thad Jones (with Thad Jones)
- 1956 : Brilliant Corners (with Thelonious Monk)
- 1956 : Tour de Force (with Sonny Rollins)
- 1956 : The Music of George Gershwin: I Sing of Thee (with Joe Wilder)
- 1956 : Rollins Plays For Bird (Sonny Rollins Quintet)
- 1956 : Saxophone Colossus (with Sonny Rollins)
- 1957 : Jazz in 3/4 time
- 1957 : First Place (with J.J. Johnson)
- 1957 : With Strings (with Clifford Brown)
- 1957 : Sonny Clark Trio
- 1957 : Jazz Contrasts (with Kenny Dorham
- 1958 : Deeds, Not Words (with all new cast Ray Draper, Booker Little, George Coleman)
- 1958 : Max Roach/Art Blakey (with Art Blakey)
- 1958 : Freedom Suite (with Sonny Rollins)
- 1958 : Shadow Waltz (with Sonny Rollins)
- 1958 : Max Roach Plus Four on the Chicago Scene (Mercury)
- 1958 : Max Roach Plus Four at Newport (Mercury)
- 1958 : Max Roach with the Boston Percussion Ensemble (EmArcy)
- 1958 : Deeds not Words (aka Conversation) (Riverside)
- 1958 : Max Roac/Bud Shank - Sessions (with Bud Shank)
- 1958 : The Defiant Ones (with Booker Little)
- 1958 : Award-Winning Drummer (Time T)
- 1959 : A Little Sweet (aka. The Many Sides of Max )(Mercury)
- 1959 : Rich Versus Roach (with Buddy Rich)
- 1959 : Quiet as it’s Kept (Mercury)
- 1959 : Moon-Faced and Starry-Eyed (Mercury)
- 1960 : Tommy Turrentine with Stanley Turrentine
- 1960 : Stan ‘The Man’ Turrentine
- 1960 : Again! (Affinity)
- 1960 : Parisian Sketches (Mercury)
- 1960 : We Insist! - Freedom Now (Candid)
- 1960 : Long as you're living (Enja)
- 1960 : Uhuru Afrika (with Randy Weston)
- 1960 : Sonny Clark Trio (with Sonny Clark)
- 1961 : Percussion Bitter Sweet (Impulse! Records)(with Mal Waldron)
- 1961 : Straight Ahead (with Abbey Lincoln)
- 1961 : Out Front (with Booker Little)
- 1961 : Paris Blues (with Duke Ellington)
- 1962 : Money Jungle (with Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus)
- 1962 : Speak, Brother, Speak!
- 1962 : It's Time (Impulse! Records)(with Mal Waldron)
- 1962 : Drum Suite (with Slide Hampton)
- 1964 : Live in Europe: Freedom Now Suite (with Abbey Lincoln)
- 1964 : The Max Roach Trip Featuring the Legendary Hasaan (with Hasaan Ibn Ali)
- 1966 : Drums Unlimited (Atlantic) (Leader, with James Spaulding, Freddie Hubbard, Ronnie Mathews, Jymie Merritt, Roland Alexander)
- 1966 : Stuttgart 1963 Concert (with Sonny Rollins
- 1968 : Sound as Roach (Atlantic)
- 1968 : Members, Don't Git Weary (Atlantic)
- 1971 : Lift Every Voice and Sing (with J.C. White Singers)
- 1972 : Newport in New York ‘72 (Roach on 2 tracks only)
- 1972 : Daahoud (Mainstream Records)
- 1973 : Re:Percussion (with M'Boom, Strata-East Records)
- 1975 : The Bop Session (with Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, John Lewis, Hank Jones and Percy Heath)
- 1976 : Force: Sweet Mao-Suid Afrika '76 (duo with Archie Shepp)
- 1976 : Nommo (Victor)
- 1977 : Max Roach Quartet Live in Tokyo (Denon)
- 1977 : The Loudstar (Horo)
- 1977 : Max Roach Quartet Live In Amsterdam - It's Time (Baystate)
- 1977 : Solos (Baystate)
- 1977 : Streams of Consciousness (duo with Dollar Brand)
- 1978 : Confirmation (Fluid)
- 1978 : Birth and Rebirth (Duo with Anthony Braxton)
- 1978 : Long time at circus yorks
- 1979 : The Long March (duo with Archie Shepp
- 1979 : Historic Concerts (duo with Cecil Taylor)
- 1979 : One In Two, Two In One (duo with Anthony Braxton)
- 1979 : M'Boom Re:Percussion (with M'Boom, Columbia Records)
- 1979 : Pictures in a Frame (Soul Note)
- 1980 : Chattahoochee Red (Columbia)
- 1982 : Swish (duo with Connie Crothers) (New Artists)
- 1982 : In the Light (Soul Note)
- 1983 : Max Roach Double Quartet Live At Vielharmonic (Soul Note)
- 1984 : Scott Free (Soul Note)
- 1984 : It’s Christmas Again (Soul Note)
- 1984 : Collage (with M'Boom, Soul Note)
- 1984 : Survivors (Soul Note)
- 1984 : Jazzbuhne Berlin ‘84 (Reperoire)
- 1985 : Easy Winners (Soul Note)
- 1986 : Bright Moments (Soul Note)
- 1989 : Max and Diz in Paris 1989 (duo with Dizzy Gillespie) (A&M)
- 1989 : Homage to Charlie Parker (A&M)
- 1991 : To the Max! (Enja)
- 1992 : Live at S.O.B.'s New York (with M'Boom, Blue Moon Records)
- 1995 : Max Roach With The New Orchestra Of Boston And The So What Brass Quintet (Blue Note)
- 1999 : Beijing Trio (Asian Improv)
- 2002 : Friendship (with Clark Terry) (Columbia)
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