Max Roach (1924-2007) was an American drummer and composer. A pioneer of bebop, he worked in many other styles of music, and is generally considered one of the most important drummers in history. This is my third "drum painting," having previously painted jazz drummers Art Blakey and Jack DeJohnette, and mounted them in a similar style in custom cut tom-tom drums refinished with mahogany wood veneer. It's also the twelfth portrait of iconic Black jazz masters in my debut one man show entitled, "D.E.I.: Dizzy, Ella and Improvisation - Paintings of Black Jazz Masters from the 1940s to the 1960s." The show, which ran during October of 2025 at the 150 Franklin Street Gallery in Harrisonburg, Va, was a creative rebuttal to the Trump administration's gallery personnel and content shakeups at the Smithsonian in Washington D.C., as well as its intention to reframe and whitewash American history by eliminating D.E.I. efforts-especially in the education of U.S. school children.