In researching a forthcoming piece for the Inquirer on saxophonist Odean Pope, I happen to be listening to a lot of Max Roach — right now, in fact, Pope’s unaccompanied solo from the 1984 Soul Note release Scott Free is blasting in my headphones.
Roach’s quartet with Pope and Cecil Bridgewater was some of the first jazz I heard, in the early ’80s. One of my best friends at the time was a drummer, and he alerted me to a TV broadcast featuring the quartet. I taped it on the newfangled machine of the time, called a VCR. And I watched, over and over.
Darcy James Argue has a roundup of posts here.
[Update: Of course the TV footage I mention above is on YouTube, here and here.]
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