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Max Roach

1924 - 2007

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Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz drummer and composer. A pioneer of bebop, he worked in many other styles of music, and is generally considered one of the most important drummers in history. He worked with many famous jazz musicians, including Clifford Brown, Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Abbey Lincoln, Dinah Washington, Charles Mingus, Billy Eckstine, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Eric Dolphy, and Booker Little. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Max Roach has received more than 1,172,246 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Max Roach is the 635th most popular musician (down from 583rd in 2019), the 3,298th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,046th in 2019) and the 196th most popular American Musician.

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  • 53.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Max Roach ranks 635 out of 2,662Before him are Vagif Mustafazadeh, Axel Rudi Pell, Thom Yorke, Napoleon Orda, Suzanne Vega, and K. K. Downing. After him are Benny Golson, Felix Blumenfeld, Alan Wilson, Louis Prima, Gaspara Stampa, and Steve Gadd.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Max Roach ranks 160Before him are Margit Sandemo, David Cox, Lubomír Štrougal, M. Karunanidhi, Franco Basaglia, and Johannes Mario Simmel. After him are S. R. Nathan, Gevork Vartanian, Haim Bar-Lev, Ken Tyrrell, Charles Bachman, and Claude Lefort. Among people deceased in 2007, Max Roach ranks 129Before him are Michael Jackson, Arawa Kimura, Lee Hazlewood, Malietoa Tanumafili II, Fernando Fernán Gómez, and Marais Viljoen. After him are Bo Yibo, François-Xavier Ortoli, Chris Benoit, Ivica Račan, Osvaldo Cavandoli, and Alfonso López Michelsen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Max Roach ranks 3,298 out of 18,182Before him are Kevin James (1965), The Miz (1980), Heber Doust Curtis (1872), Suzanne Vega (1959), Benjamin Bratt (1963), and Shere Hite (1942). After him are David Lee Roth (1954), John Paine (1870), Joseph A. Walker (1921), Nathan Homer Knorr (1905), Tom Holland (1943), and Doris Hart (1925).

Among MUSICIANS In United States

Among musicians born in United States, Max Roach ranks 196Before him are Chaka Khan (1953), Kenny Clarke (1914), Horace Silver (1928), Peter Cetera (1944), Ric Ocasek (1949), and Suzanne Vega (1959). After him are Benny Golson (1929), Alan Wilson (1943), Louis Prima (1910), Steve Gadd (1945), McCoy Tyner (1938), and Ruggiero Ricci (1918).