This is a wonderful hour of radio. I highly recommend it to stations for broadcast anytime.

It's an elegant, thoughtful, and informative piece on the incredible contributions of drummer Max Roach. And it just made me smile a lot. You can't help yourself when you hear Roach talking about his passion for music, for life.... and when you hear the story about his big break filling in for Duke Ellington's drummer, his anecdotes about living with Miles Davis, their stories about soaking up the jazz life together in New York when they were both basically teenagers still. It's an incredible story about creative energy and innovation, both intimate and broad. And the music never stops; it's an exciting, seamless mix. And, if you're like me and you don't know enough about Roach and his contemporaries and the invention of modern jazz, then you will learn so much, and come away feeling fulfilled and enlightened. Public radio listeners will love this. It would work in a news/ culture slot, or during a jazz or music show too.