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• 1953: The Max Roach Quartet featuring Hank Mobley (Debut)
• 1956: Max Roach + 4 (EmArcy)
• 1957: Jazz in ¾ Time (EmArcy)
• 1957: The Max Roach 4 Plays Charlie Parker (EmArcy)
• 1958: MAX (Argo)
• 1958: Max Roach + 4 on the Chicago Scene (Mercury)
• 1958: Max Roach/Art Blakey (with Art Blakey)
• 1958: Max Roach + 4 at Newport (EmArcy)
• 1958: Max Roach with the Boston Percussion Ensemble (EmArcy)
• 1958: Deeds, Not Words (Riverside) - also released as Conversation
• 1958: Award-Winning Drummer (Time) - also released as Max Roach
• 1958: Max Roach/Bud Shank - Sessions – with Bud Shank
• 1958: The Defiant Ones - cùng Booker Little
• 1959: The Many Sides of Max (Mercury)
• 1959: Rich Versus Roach (Mercury) - cùng Buddy Rich
• 1959: Quiet as It's Kept (Mercury)
• 1959: Moon Faced and Starry Eyed (Mercury) - cùng Abbey Lincoln
• 1959: Max Roach (Time) – with Booker Little
• 1960: Long as You're Living (Enja) - phát hành 1984
• 1960: Parisian Sketches (Mercury)
• 1960: We Insist! (Candid)
• 1961: Percussion Bitter Sweet (Impulse!) - cùng Mal Waldron
• 1962: It's Time (Impulse!) - cùng Mal Waldron
• 1962: Speak, Brother, Speak! (Fantasy)
• 1964: The Max Roach Trio Featuring the Legendary Hasaan (Atlantic) - cùng Hasaan Ibn Ali
• 1966: Drums Unlimited (Atlantic)
• 1968: Members, Don't Git Weary (Atlantic)
• 1971: Lift Every Voice and Sing (Atlantic) - cùng the J.C. White Singers
• 1976: Force: Sweet Mao-Suid Afrika '76 (duo with Archie Shepp)
• 1976: Nommo (Victor)
• 1977: Max Roach Quartet Live in Tokyo (Denon)
• 1977: The Loadstar (Horo)
• 1977: Max Roach Quartet Live In Amsterdam - It's Time (Baystate)
• 1977: Solos (Baystate)
• 1977: Streams of Consciousness (Baystate) - cùng Dollar Brand
• 1978: Confirmation (Fluid Records)
• 1978: Birth and Rebirth - cùng Anthony Braxton (Black Saint)
• 1979: The Long March - cùng Archie Shepp (Hathut)
• 1979: Historic Concerts - cùng Cecil Taylor (Black Saint)
• 1979: One in Two - Two in One - cùng Anthony Braxton (Hathut)
• 1979: Pictures in a Frame (Soul Note)
• 1980: Chattahoochee Red (Columbia)
• 1982: Swish - duo with Connie Crothers (New Artists)
• 1982: In the Light (Soul Note)
• 1983: Live at Vielharmonie (Soul Note)
• 1984: Scott Free (Soul Note)
• 1984: It's Christmas Again (Soul Note)
• 1984: Survivors (Soul Note)
• 1985: Easy Winners (Soul Note)
• 1986: Bright Moments (Soul Note)
• 1989: Max + Dizzy: Paris 1989 - cùng Dizzy Gillespie (A&M)
• 1989: Homage to Charlie Parker (A&M)
• 1991: To the Max! (Enja)
• 1995: Max Roach With The New Orchestra Of Boston And The So What Brass Quintet (Blue Note)
• 1999: Beijing Trio (Asian Improv)
• 2002: Friendship - (with Clark Terry) (Columbia)

Co-leader

Cùng Clifford Brown

• 1954: Best Coast Jazz (Emarcy)
• 1954: Clifford Brown All Stars (Emarcy, [released 1956])
• 1954: Jam Session (EmArcy, 1954) - with Maynard Ferguson và Clark Terry
• 1954: Brown and Roach Incorporated (EmArcy)
• 1954: Daahoud (Mainstream) - released 1973
• 1955: Clifford Brown with Strings (EmArcy)
• 1954-55: Clifford Brown and Max Roach (EmArcy)
• 1955: Study in Brown (EmArcy)
• 1954: More Study in Brown
• 1956: Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street (EmArcy)
• 1979: Live at the Bee Hive (Columbia Records)

Cùng M'Boom

• 1973: Re: Percussion (Strata-East Records)
• 1979: M'Boom (Columbia)
• 1984: Collage (Soul Note)
• 1992: Live at S.O.B.'s New York (Blue Moon Records)

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Cùng Chet Baker

• Witch Doctor (Contemporary, 1953 [1985])

Cùng Don Byas

• Savoy Jam Party (1946)

Cùng Jimmy Cleveland

• Introducing Jimmy Cleveland and His All Stars (EmArcy, 1955)

Cùng Al Cohn

• Cohn's Tones (1953)

Cùng Miles Davis

• Birth of the Cool (Capitol, 1949)
• Conception (Prestige, 1951)

Cùng John Dennis

• New Piano Expressions (1955)

Cùng Kenny Dorham

• Jazz Contrasts (Riverside, 1957)

Cùng Billy Eckstine

• The Metronome All Stars (1953)

Cùng Duke Ellington

• Paris Blues (United Artists, 1961)
• Money Jungle (United Artists, 1962) - with Charles Mingus

Cùng Maynard Ferguson

• Jam Session featuring Maynard Ferguson (EmArcy, 1954)

Cùng Dizzy Gillespie

• Diz and Getz (Verve, 1953) - with Stan Getz
• The Bop Session (Sonet, 1975) - with Sonny Stitt, John Lewis, Hank Jones và Percy Heath

Cùng Stan Getz

• Opus BeBop (1946)

Cùng Benny Golson

• The Modern Touch (Riverside, 1957)

Cùng Johnny Griffin

• Introducing Johnny Griffin (Blue Note, 1956)

Cùng Slide Hampton

• Drum Suite (Epic, 1962)

Cùng Coleman Hawkins

• Rainbow Mist (1944)
• Coleman Hawkins and His All Stars (1944)
• Body and Soul (1946)

Cùng Joe Holiday

• Mambo Jazz (1953)

Cùng J.J. Johnson

• Mad Be Bop (1946)
• First Place (1957)

Cùng Thad Jones

• The Magnificent Thad Jones (Blue Note, 1956)

Cùng Abbey Lincoln

• That's Him! (Riverside, 1957)
• Straight Ahead (Riverside, 1961)

Cùng Booker Little

• Out Front (Candid, 1961)

Cùng Howard McGhee

• The McGhee-Navarro Sextet (1950)

Cùng Gil Melle

• New Faces, New Sounds (Blue Note, 1952)

Cùng Charles Mingus

• The Charles Mingus Quintet & Max Roach (Debut, 1955)

Cùng Thelonious Monk

• The Complete Genius (Blue Note, 1952)
• Brilliant Corners (Riverside, 1956)

Cùng Herbie Nichols

• Herbie Nichols Trio (Blue Note, 1955)

Cùng Charlie Parker

• Town Hall, New York, ngày 22 tháng 6 năm 1945 (1945) - with Dizzy Gillespie
• The Complete Savoy Studio Recordings (1945–48)
• Lullaby in Rhythm (1947)
• Charlie Parker on Dial (Dial, 1947)
• The Band that Never Was (1948)
• Bird on 52nd Street (1948)
• Bird at the Roost (1948)
• Charlie Parker – Complete Sessions on Verve (Verve, 1949–53)
• Charlie Parker in France (1949)
• Live at Rockland Palace (1952)
• Yardbird: DC-53 (1953)

Cùng Bud Powell

• The Bud Powell Trip (1947)
• The Amazing Bud Powell (Blue Note, 1951)

Cùng Sonny Rollins

• Work Time (Prestige, 1955)
• Sonny Rollins Plus 4 (Prestige, 1956)
• Tour de Force (Prestige, 1956)
• Rollins Plays for Bird (Prestige, 1956)
• Saxophone Colossus (Prestige, 1956)
• Freedom Suite (Riverside, 1958)
• Stuttgart 1963 Concert (1963)

Cùng A. K. Salim

• Pretty for the People (Savoy, 1957)

Cùng Hazel Scott

• Relaxed Piano Moods (1955)

Cùng Sonny Stitt

• Sonny Stitt/Bud Powell/J. J. Johnson (Prestige, 1956)

Cùng Stanley Turrentine

• Stan "The Man" Turrentine (Time, 1960 [1963])

Cùng Tommy Turrentine

• Tommy Turrentine (1960)

Cùng George Wallington

• The George Wallington Trip and Septet (1951)

Cùng Dinah Washington

• Dinah Jams (EmArcy, 1954)

Cùng Randy Weston

• Uhuru Afrika (Roulette, 1960)

Cùng Joe Wilder

• The Music of George Gershwin: I Sing of Thee (1956)