 in the early years of this 21st century. Max died at the age of 83 on August 16th of 2007. But in the mid-80s, Max Roach provided me with this quote, and this is, although it's from the booklet, I'm quoting Max Roach. Bird came to my place one morning, and I was laboring over this. This is when I was recording, when Mingus and I formed the debut company