photo by John Abbott
Faith in Rhythm
by Mark Anthony Neal
Perhaps the word that most captures the significance of Max Roach is faith. Yes the faith, in those early days, that he would always keep time as the winded lyricists and at least one fickle Monk, dared the time/space continuum to challenge their intellects—one more time. But there was also Max Roach’s faith; Faith that the rhythm would deliver the genius of a generation of “old southern men, full of northern pain”—that the rhythm would always deliver music that we could dream to and finally that the rhythm would deliver even a grain of freedom—“We Insist!”—for those whose only possessions were their bodies and the rhythms contained within those bodies.
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