Drum giant Max Roach at 100: He inspired generations, from Miles Davis and Ray Davies to The Notorious B.I.G.

'I never separate rap from Charlie Parker or from (basketball). It's all in the continuum — we all come from the same place," the jazz drum legend and social activist said in our 1993 interview

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