Speak, Brother, Speak!

Speak, Brother, Speak! is a live album by American jazz drummer Max Roach featuring performances recorded in San Francisco in 1962 and released by the Fantasy label.^[1]

Speak, Brother, Speak!
Live album by Max Roach
Released	1963
Recorded	October 27, 1962
Venue	The Jazz Workshop, San Francisco, California
Genre	Jazz
Length	45:33
Label	Fantasy LP 6007
Max Roach chronology
The Charles Mingus Quintet & Max Roach (1963) Speak, Brother, Speak! (1963) The Max Roach Trio featuring the Legendary Hasaan (1964)

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
Down Beat	[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[4]
Tom Hull	A−[5]

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars stating: "The music is somewhere between hard bop and the avant-garde, and the musicians really push each other, although the results are not quite essential. Clifford Jordan fans in particular will find this to be an interesting set".^[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Max Roach except as indicated

1. "Speak, Brother, Speak" (Clifford Jordan, Eddie Khan, Max Roach, Mal Waldron) - 25:03
2. "A Variation" - 20:30

Personnel

• Max Roach - drums
• Clifford Jordan - tenor saxophone
• Mal Waldron - piano
• Eddie Khan - bass

References

1. Max Roach discography accessed September 24, 2012
2. Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed September 24, 2012
3. Down Beat: August 15, 1963 vol. 30, no. 23
4. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1220. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
5. Hull, Tom (June 2, 2020). "Music Week". Tom Hull – On the Web. Retrieved June 20, 2020.