r.i.p. max roach

max roach, who exploded out of brooklyn in the '40s as charlie parker's teenage drummer, played on crucial thelonious monk sides, co-led a '50s band with trumpeter clifford brown that included sonny rollins on tenor for a spell, recorded the freedom now suite with his wife abbey lincoln and challenged the powers-that-be at the newport jazz festival in the '60s, and was still forward-thinking enough to duet with cecil taylor in the '90s, left the planet yesterday, aged 83. there will not be another.