About this episode
WKCR presents a marathon broadcast celebrating Max Roach annually, on his birthday anniversary, January 10. For my segment on the 2025 edition, I prepared a set focusing on Max Roach’s contributions to great piano trio recordings. It includes sessions with Bud Powell, George Wallington, Thelonious Monk, Herbie Nichols, John Dennis, Sonny Clark, Duke Ellington, and the legendary Hasaan. This episode begins with an appetizer of tracks from Brown-Roach and Max’s Quartet with Hank Mobley, then serves the main course of 2 ½ hours of the piano trio sides, and concludes with a dessert cordial of Allan Eager.