A documentary fitting for the groundbreaking jazz drummer
celebrates the groundbreaking jazz drummer’s career. Co-directed by Samuel Pollard and Ben Shapiro, they pooled their separate early efforts to mount a singular biopic about Roach and created this informative and powerful investigation into the musician’s accomplishments and legacy.
The documentary uses a vast array of archival footage and interviews to bring the recent past to life, often building sections into pulsating impressions that reflect its subject and an overall musicality. Jazz novices and well-steeped aficionados will all find this an edifying document that presents an overall biography of a significant life in music as well as a revealing portrait of what made the artist, a Black man who made his bones in Jim Crow’s America, tick.
It’s clear in the film’s opening seconds that the artist and his milieu are inextricable: We hear a white journalist ask Roach, who was then early in his career, if his music could be used as a weapon. In reply, Roach, whose music demonstrably reflects the conflicted racial times, answered in the affirmative, and went on to explain that even the term “jazz” is diminishing when a more proper descriptor might be something like “African American instrumental music.
We may have Max Roach to thank for the often-dreaded drum solo in modern music. Roach lifted drumming from a mere beat-keeping anchor to an expressive instrumental showpiece and compositional tool.
For their interviews, the filmmakers largely tap fellow musicians who knew Roach and can add personal knowledge and reminiscences rather than jazz historians and academics presenting facts. Interviewees include such musicians as Sonny Rollins, Harry Belafonte, Roach’s former wife Abbey Lincoln, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Randy Weston, Fab Five Freddy, and poet Sonia Sanchez.
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