Max Roach's M'Boom
Sounds of Brazil (aka: SOB's)
New York City
June 25, 1986
(early set)

Source: AUD (unknown Aiwa walkman cassette deck & mic)>?>Maxell XLII-90 cassette

01) Max Drum Solo (4:01)
02) (12:59)
03) (12:46)
04) (4:14)
05) (11:24)
06) (1:45)//
07) //(cont) (4:40)
08) (11:22)
09) (5:42)
10) (6:51)
Total:(75:45)

Max Roach - drums
Ray Mantilla - timbales, bongos
Warren Smith - timpani
Freddie Waits - var perc
Joe Chambers - Var perc
Roy Brooks - var perc
Omar Clay - var perc
Fred King - var perc

Lineage: 2nd gen Maxell XLII-90 cassette>Teac W-890R Cassette Deck out>Edirol RO9 @24bit/44.1 khz>
Edirol RO9 USB out>Dell Inspiron 530S HD>AUDACITY to 16bit/44.1 khz>TLH>FLAC

notes:
-another from my archives, this is one of Wes' master recordings I am sure due to hearing his cheering on the tape, the abrupt cuts at
the end of tunes in order to save tape, and the "sound" of his Aiwa recorder - this makes it a 2nd gen tape for me. Sounds like he had external mics
at this point. He was not a quality buff at all - was happy if he could just listen to it 1-3 more times again and likely never again - luckily a
friend and myself used to make copies. I used to be picky with his stuff because the sound just wasn't that great, but this is still quite listenable
to: in the "B+/B" range - it's just lower-quality Aiwa shit.
-from NY Times 2 days later:
JAZZ: MAX ROACH'S M'BOOM
By Jon Pareles
Published: June 27, 1986
M'BOOM, the all-percussion octet founded by Max Roach in 1970, tinkles and rattles and rustles and roars. Opening a two-night engagement Wednesday at Sounds
of Brazil, M'Boom's pieces drew on jazz, salsa and hints of African and European traditions. They were carefully arranged vamp tunes, designed to show the
variety of percussive sounds - from marimba to timbales, orchestral chimes to musical saw, steel drum to shaker - and the virtuosity of M'Boom's musicians.
The first set opened with a systematic drum solo by Mr. Roach. Then, M'Boom joined him for a modal vamp, an eerie piece that built to a triumphant
four-chord chorale, a floating, odd-meter piece and a fast Latin vamp with a dialogue between Mr. Roach's drums and Ray Mantilla's timbales and bongos.
Each set up interlocking patterns played by hands, sticks and mallets; there was also a version of Monk's ''Epistrophy'' with its melody stated, in octaves,
by glockenspiel and timpani, and a sliding, playful timpani solo by Warren Smith. M'Boom also included - on widely assorted instruments -Freddie Waits,
Joe Chambers, Roy Brooks, Omar Clay and Fred King. The arrangements revealed what percussionists already know - that rhythmic instruments, even such
''unpitched'' percussion as snare drums and tambourines, have a melodic side, and that there are thousands of ways to be percussive.
-Track 6 & 7 are same tune with tape flip dividing them.
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