**FILE**Max Roach performs at the Playboy Jazz Festival on June 16, 2001, at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. The master percussionist whose rhythmic innovations and improvisations provided the dislocated beats that defined bebop jazz, died Thursday, Aug. 16, 2007, at an undisclosed hospital in Manhattan after a long illness. He was 83. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)