The Max Roach Trio Featuring the Legendary Hasaan explained

The Max Roach Trio Featuring the Legendary Hasaan
Type:	Studio
Artist:	Max Roach Trio
Cover:	The Max Roach Trio featuring the Legendary Hasaan.jpg
Released:	March 1965
Recorded:	December 4 & 7, 1964 New York City
Length:	41:07
Label:	Atlantic LP 1435
Producer:	Arif Mardin
Chronology:	Max Roach
Prev Title:	Speak, Brother, Speak!
Prev Year:	1962
Next Title:	Drums Unlimited
Next Year:	1965-66

The Max Roach Trio Featuring the Legendary Hasaan is an album by American jazz drummer Max Roach with pianist Hasaan Ibn Ali, recorded in 1964 and released on the Atlantic label in March 1965.^{[1] [2]} It is the only recording featuring Ibn Ali released during his lifetime.

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 4½ stars with reviewer Scott Yanow stating: "This is a classic of its kind and it is fortunate that it was made, but it is a tragedy that Hasaan would not record again and that he would soon sink back into obscurity".^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Hasaan Ibn Ali

1. "Three-Four vs. Six-Eight Four-Four Ways" - 5:40
2. "Off My Back Jack" - 5:13
3. "Hope So Elmo" - 3:52
4. "Almost Like Me" - 6:39
5. "Din-Ka Street" - 6:08
6. "Pay Not Play Not" - 8:08
7. "To Inscribe" - 5:00

• Recorded in New York on December 4 (tracks 1, 4 & 5) and December 7 (tracks 2, 3, 6 & 7), 1964

Personnel

• Max Roach - drums
• Hasaan Ibn Ali - piano
• Art Davis - bass

Notes and References

1. News: New Album Releases . 29 September 2019 . Billboard . The Billboard Publishing Co. . 13 March 1965 . en.
2. http://www.jazzdisco.org/max-roach/catalog/#atlantic-lp-1435 Max Roach discography
3. Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed September 24, 2012