Young Gordon player Max Roach with an Aussie schoolboys side. “So I have a fair few mates playing at Sydney Uni in that team like Harper Strachan and Ned Ericsson. “But I stayed at Gordon.

The former long-term director of jazz studies at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Watson has played with the luminous likes of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, Max Roach, Lou Rawls ...

Kami Tuqalo, Nick Swain, Hamish MacDonald, Sevuloni Satala, Charlie Foster, Oliver McCracken, Max Roach and Louis Fenwick all sit equal on the try scoring tally with five. Round four was also ...

“Buddy Miles was my favourite, growing up, and my dad turned me on to Max Roach when I was a kid. My dad inspired me to play drums; he used to play congas.” ...