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Pioneering jazz drummer Max Roach was born on Jan. 10, 1924 in Newland, N.C., and grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. Roach began playing in New York jazz clubs in the early 1940s. From those early days until his death in 2007, he never stopped creating and exploring new possibilities for jazz drumming. (Photo Max Roach in 1947 by William Gottlieb/Library of Congress)

We remember Roach with five recordings from his amazing body of work.