''M'Boom'' 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, recorded in 1979 for the
Columbia label.
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Reception
''
The Globe and Mail
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'' noted that "there are limits, as ''M'Boom'' proves, to the things that can be done (and none of them are harmonic in nature) with vibes, marimbas, steel drums, timpani, traps, and a few boxes of odds and ends."
The
AllMusic
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review by
Scott Yanow stated: "This is a particularly colorful set that is easily recommended not only to jazz and percussion fans but to followers of World music".
[Yanow, S]
AllMusic Review
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Track listing
:''All compositions by Max Roach except as indicated''
# "Onomatopoeia" (Omar Clay) - 5:17
# "Twinkle Toes" (
Warren Smith) - 3:33
# "Caravanserai" (
Joe Chambers) - 4:01
# "January V" - 3:24
# "The Glorious Monster" - 6:46
# "Rumble in the Jungle" (Clay) - 7:15
# "Morning/Midday" (Clay, Smith) - 6:50
# "
Epistrophy" (
Kenny Clarke,
Thelonious Monk) - 4:28
# "Kujichaglia" (
Roy Brooks) - 6:27
:*Recorded in New York City on July 25, 26 & 27, 1979
Personnel
*
Roy Brooks,
Joe Chambers, Omar Clay, Fred King,
Max Roach,
Warren Smith,
Freddie Waits -
drums
The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...
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 ...
,
vibes,
marimba,
xylophone,
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, ...
*
Ray Mantilla conga,
bongos, timpani, Latin percussion
*Kenyatte Abdur-Rahman - percussion,
bells
References
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Columbia Records albums
Max Roach albums
M'Boom albums
1979 albums