''Collage'' is an album by American jazz percussion ensemble

M'Boom M'Boom was an American jazz percussion group founded by drummer Max Roach in 1970. The original members were Roach, Roy Brooks, Warren Smith (jazz percussionist), Warren Smith, Joe Chambers, Omar Clay, Ray Mantilla, and Freddie Waits. All of M'B ...

led by

Max Roach 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 wo ...

recorded in 1984 for the Italian Soul Note label.Max Roach discography
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Reception

The

Allmusic AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online database, online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on Musical artist, musicians and Mus ...

review by Ken Dryden awarded the album 3 stars stating "While listening to the mix of different instruments from track to track is fun, this CD is better savored a track or two at a time than trying to absorb the whole thing in one sitting".Dryden, K
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Track listing

:''All compositions by Max Roach except as indicated'' # "Circles" (

Joe Chambers Joe Chambers (born June 25, 1942) is an American jazz drummer, pianist, vibraphonist and composer. In the 1960s and 1970s, Chambers gigged with many high-profile artists such as Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, Wayne Shorter, and Chick Corea an ...

) - 7:28 # "It's Time" - 5:32 # "Jamaican Sun" (

Roy Brooks Roy Brooks (March 9, 1938 – November 15, 2005) was an American Jazz drumming, jazz drummer. Biography Early life Brooks was born in Detroit and drummed since childhood, his earliest experiences of music coming through his mother, who sang in c ...

) - 6:24 # "Street Dance" - 5:32 # "Mr. Seven" ( Warren Smith) - 10:54 # "A Quiet Place" - 6:40 ##Recorded at Vanguard Studios in New York City on October 16, 17 & 18, 1984

Personnel

bass drum The bass drum is a large drum that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch. The instrument is typically cylindrical, with the drum's diameter usually greater than its depth, with a struck head at both ends of the cylinder. The head ...

, vibes, marimba

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

, concert snare *Kenyatte Abdur-Rahman - xylophone, cabasa, claves, percussion, bass drum *

- marimba, bass marimba, xylophone *Eli Fountain - xylophone, vibes, bass drum, bells, snare drum, crotales *

Freddie Waits Frederick Douglas Waits (April 27, 1943 – November 18, 1989) was an American hard bop and post-bop drummer. Waits never officially recorded as leader, but was a prominent member and composer in Max Roach's M'Boom percussion ensemble. He work ...

- tom-tom, percussion, shaker, bass marimba * Ray Mantilla - conga,

timpani Timpani (; ) or kettledrums (also informally called timps) are musical instruments in the percussion instrument, percussion family. A type of drum categorised as a hemispherical drum, they consist of a Membranophone, membrane called a drumhead, ...

, bongos, bells, chimes * Warren Smith - timpani, vibes, bass marimba, percussion *Eddie Allen - woodblocks, percussion, claves, cabasa, bell tree, cymbal,

triangle A triangle is a polygon with three corners and three sides, one of the basic shapes in geometry. The corners, also called ''vertices'', are zero-dimensional points while the sides connecting them, also called ''edges'', are one-dimension ...

, finger cymbal *

- slapstick, percussion, steel drum, musical saw, tom-tom *Fred King - concert bells, cowbell, timpani, vibes

References

{{Authority control Black Saint/Soul Note albums Max Roach albums M'Boom albums 1984 albums