Max Roach

.....won't be down for breakfast. Gone at 83.

What a great interesting life it sounds like he must have had. Started drumming with Duke Ellington at 16 and from there I'm not sure if there's a jazz great from a just fantastic period of jazz that he hasn't played with. Monk, Davis, Parker, Hawkins, Gillespie, Mingus, you name it, he was there.

And from what I gather he's given significant credit for developing bop. Not to shabby a list of contributions to music. Always sad to see one of the last remaining from a great era pass one.