Word: roache
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mingus and others, jazz is far more than music. It is a shared heritage, a symbol of achievement, a language in which to tell what Negro Drummer Max Roach calls "the dramatic story of our people and what we've been through." It is also a private language. Through jazz, Negro Pianist Billy Taylor points out, the Negro has always been able "to say many things musically that would never have been accepted by a white American had he verbalized them...
...Crow Jim is, especially among the angry young men who are passionately involved in the rise of Negro nationalism. Jazz compositions these days bear titles like A Message from Kenya (Art Blakey), Uhuru Afrika (Randy Weston), Africa Speaks, America Answers (Guy Warren), Afro-American Sketches (Oliver Nelson). Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite-We Insist includes tunes like Tears for Johannesburg, a lament for the Africans shot down in the Sharpeville massacre. To younger jazzmen, a great musician like Louis Armstrong is suspect-instead of hopping on the freedom bus he has been content to remain an "Uncle...
Launched by Pop Singer Chubby Checkers in Philadelphia over a year ago and taken up by teen-aged faddists across the country, The Twist at first was an innocent enough dance; it has since been largely discarded in favor of such refinements as "The Roach" and "The Fly." But the youngsters at the Peppermint have revived The Twist and parodied it into a replica of some ancient tribal puberty rite. The dancers scarcely ever touch each other or move their feet. Everything else, however, moves. The upper body sways forward and backward and the hips and shoulders twirl erotically, while...
...brightest note at Newport was sounded by a rebel group of modern jazzmen who launched their own competing festival in a rambling seaside hotel, Cliff Walk Manor. Headed by Bass Player Charlie Mingus and Drummer Max Roach, the rebels played right through the riotous weekend, drew 750 people on Sunday night, grossed $4,700. With the encouragement of Louis Lorillard's divorced wife Elaine, they made plans to form their own Jazz Artists' Guild, and to sell tapes of their concerts, which eventually may appear on four LPs under the title Rebellion at Newport. The cool rebels, including...
Protestant clergymen openly joined in the attack. New York Baptist Minister John Roach Straton, a leader of the nationwide Fundamentalist movement, denounced Smith as "the deadliest foe in America today of the forces of moral progress." Virginia's Methodist Bishop James Cannon Jr. thundered at Smith in sermons and pamphlets, organized a South-wide movement of drys dedicated to his defeat. Moderator Hugh K. Walker of the Presbyterian General Assembly called upon all Protestant churchmen to "fight to the bitter end the election of Alfred E. Smith...