Percussion Bitter Sweet

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Percussion Bitter Sweet
Studio album by
ReleasedLate 1961
RecordedAugust 1, 3, 8 & 9, 1961
New York City
GenreJazz
Length40:50
LabelImpulse!
A-8
ProducerMax Roach
Max Roach chronology
We Insist!
(1960)
Percussion Bitter Sweet
(1961)
It's Time
(1962)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Down Beat[1]
AllMusic[2]
Tom HullB+ ((3-star Honorable Mention)(3-star Honorable Mention)(3-star Honorable Mention))[3]

Percussion Bitter Sweet is an album by jazz drummer Max Roach recorded in 1961, released on Impulse! Records. It was trumpeter Booker Little's penultimate recording before he died from uremia in early October 1961.

Track listing[edit]

All compositions by Max Roach, except where noted

  1. "Garvey's Ghost" - 7:53
  2. "Mama" - 4:50
  3. "Tender Warriors" - 6:52
  4. "Praise for a Martyr" - 7:09
  5. "Mendacity" (Chips Bayen, Max Roach) - 8:54
  6. "Man From South Africa" - 5:12

Tracks 1 and 5 recorded on August 1, 1961; #2 and 3 on August 3; #4 on August 8 and #6 on August 9, 1961.

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Production[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Down Beat: January 4, 1962 vol. 29, no. 1
  2. ^ "Percussion Bitter Sweet - Max Roach | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic.
  3. ^ Hull, Tom (June 2, 2020). "Music Week". Tom Hull – On the Web. Retrieved June 20, 2020.