Percussion Bitter Sweet

Percussion Bitter Sweet
Studio album by Max Roach
Released Late 1961
Recorded August 1, 3, 8 & 9, 1961
Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs
Genre Jazz
Length 40:50
Label Impulse!
A-8
Producer Max Roach
Max Roach chronology
Max Roach and Friends, Vol. 2
(1961)		 Percussion Bitter Sweet
(1961)		 It's Time
(1962)

Percussion Bitter Sweet is an album by jazz drummer Max Roach recorded in 1961, released on Impulse! Records.

Track listing

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" (Roach, C. Bayen) - 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.

Personnel