Max Roach

• 180 gram VIRGIN VINYL

• SPECIAL GATEFOLD EDITION

• 4 STARS ALL MUSIC GUIDE

Max Roach came out of the bop era, but was on the cutting edge of jazz into the 1990s. On It’s Time, he takes again the Civil Rights themes of his previous album Percussion Bitter Sweet and applies a choir to them, giving his musical and political thrust an almost godly urgency.

Here, the musical and the politcal are impossible to seperate and Roach uses these voices to provoke and discomfort us. Abbey Lincoln is featured as the vocal soloist on the LP’s last track.

PERSONNEL:

• MAX ROACH - (drums & leader)
• RICHARD WILLIAMS - (trumpet)
• JULIAN PRIESTER - (trombone)
• CLIFFORD JORDAN - (tenor sax)
• MAL WALDRONV - (piano)
• ART DAVIS - (bass)
• ABBEY LINCOLN - (vocals on B3)
• Orchestra & chorus arranged & conducted by COLERIDGE-TAYLOR PERKINSON

New York, February 15, 26 & 27, 1962.

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1 IT’S TIME
• A2 ANOTHER VALLEY
• A3 SUNDAY AFTERNOON

• SIDE B
• B1 LIVING ROOM
• B2 THE PROFIT
• B3 LONESOME LOVER