The 100 Greatest Brooklynites of All Time: 60 to 51
Max Roach is, quite simply, one of the greatest drummers of all time, regardless of genre. Just graduated from Boys High School in Bed-Stuy, at the tender age of 18, he filled in with the Duke Ellington Orchestra at the legendary Paramount Theater and never looked back, pioneering mind-blowing new drum techniques (for the time) and collaborating with the greatest musicians of a generation on a sound that would come to be known as bebop.