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"Max is the Highest, the Outtest, the Largest, the Greatest, the Fastest the Hippest" - Poet Amiri Baraka Eulogizes Jazz Legend Max Roach

"Max is the Highest, the Outtest, the Largest, the Greatest, the Fastest the Hippest" - Poet Amiri Baraka Eulogizes Jazz Legend Max Roach

Amiri Baraka–Max Roach’s biographer and acclaimed poet and playwright–delivered the eulogy at Roach’s funeral at Riverside Church. Baraka read the poem, "Digging Max," that he wrote for Roach’s 75th birthday. [includes rush transcript]

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