Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis 

Revered as one of the greatest jazz drummers of all time, Max Roach was among the first to use the music to address racial, political and social issues of his time. The JLCO celebrates the centennial of this pioneering legend, innovative master musician and bandleader who spanned a diverse range of styles that influenced generations to follow. In 1961, after having been an influential member of the Charlie Parker-Dizzy Gillespie Quintet pioneering bebop, and performing alongside Miles Davis’ seminal “Birth of the Cool” and forming the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet, he went on to make albums with his wife, the trailblazing singer and songwriter Abbey Lincoln, going on to say in 1961 to Downbeat Magazine that he would “never again play anything” that did not “have social significance.”