It doesn't matter if it's traditional jazz, blues or rock 'n' roll.

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For two extraordinary hours on May 24, 1987, Max Roach (1924-2007) made music live on the air from the Jazz 88 Performance Studio at WBGO in Newark, N.

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He revelled in the Jazz Age, when illustrators such as Howard Pyle and N.

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He went through changes that ranged from imitating Nat Cole and Charles Brown to finding his own voice in jazz, gospel, rhythm and blues, rock 'n' roll, country, pop and soul.

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These are musicians who "contributed to the architecture of rock 'n' roll, " Padnos says, by transforming the traditional, bass-heavy New Orleans jazz of the marching band and whorehouse piano into something entirely new.

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