Friendship

Clark Terry, Clark Terry & Max Roach | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 15, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B00008WT4F
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #390,942 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Statements

2. Let's Cool One

3. Brushes and Brass

4. Simple Waltz

5. I Remember Clifford

6. Lil Max

7. But Beautiful

8. The Profit

9. When I Fall in Love

10. For Dancers Only

11. Makin' Whoopee

12. To Basie with Love

13. The Nearness of You

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Old School, February 21, 2006

By 

Stephen A. Smith (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Friendship (Audio CD)

If you listened to this disc and your only response is to suggest that Clark Terry and Max Roach have lost their fire, then I'd politely suggest that your CD might have been quietly replaced with Folgers Crystals. Listening to these two guys with 152 years between them, it's impossible not to tap your foot and laugh at the Rolling Stones as a bunch of over-the-hill geezers.

This ain't polite jazz. Roach hits the snare hard as ever, and Terry's lines are pure bop. About half the disc consists of duets between the leaders, and their dialogue is as heavy as anything you'll hear from Chris Potter or Keith Jarrett. Roach takes "Lil Max" as a solo, and Terry plays alone on the ballads "When I Fall In Love" and "The Nearness of You." Although the personnel is listed as a quartet with pianist Don Friedman and bassist Marcus McLaurine, only three tunes feature the full band: "Let's Cool One," "But Beautiful," and "Makin' Whoopee."

Like much of Sony's recent jazz, this album received little fanfare and was mostly overlooked; and since it was manufactured by a major label, the result is that supply overwhelmed demand and you can now buy a copy for pennies. You should. It'll cost a fraction of what you'd spend at a jazz club and it'll take 46 minutes from your life, and it'll be well worth both.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars We Don't Need No Stinkin Chops!, February 4, 2005

By 

J. Deighton "J. Deighton" (Inches From My Computer) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Friendship (Audio CD)

I have no beef with jazz musicians losing their chops. If I wanted to listen to Max Roach play like he did in his twenties I'd listen to some old Charlie Parker sides.

This is a different kind of session. This is a laid back session with two masters having fun riffing off each other. Not classic or important, but undeniably cool. As to the reviewer who couldn't even hear the piano and bass on some of the tracks, THAT'S BECAUSE THEY WERE DUETS, Batman!

Nothing groundbreaking, but still something special.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Max Roach and Clark Terry, what can I say, May 30, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Friendship (Audio CD)

This record is great, really you should just listen to it. But, if you can't listen to music if it's not fast and loud like the reviewer from San Diego....then maybe this album isn't for you. Mr. San Diego wasn't listening very closely if he came to the conclusion that the musicians were "falling asleep". This album is something you really should hear.