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{{Short description|American jazz percussion ensemble}}
{{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians -->
| name             = M'Boom
| image            = MBoom workshop Percussion, Relationship to Improvisation, 1974 January 26 at Amherst College.jpeg
| caption          = M'Boom at a jazz workshop at hosted by Amherst University, January 26, 1974
| background       = group_or_band
| origin           =
| genre            = [[Jazz]]
| years_active     = 1970–1990s
| label            = Baystate, [[Columbia Records|Columbia]], [[Soul Note Records|Soul Note]],  Blue Moon
| past_members     = * [[Joe Chambers]]
* [[Max Roach]]
* [[Ray Mantilla]]
* [[Roy Brooks]]
* [[Warren Smith (jazz musician)|Warren Smith]]
* [[Freddie Waits]]
* [[Omar Clay]]
* Eli Fountain
* Fred King
* Craig McIver
* [[Eddie Allen (jazz musician)|Eddie Allen]]
* Francisco Mora Catlett
* Kenyatte Abdur-Rahman
* [[Steve Berrios]]
* Richard "Pablo" Landrum
* [[Ray Mantilla]]
| current_members  = * [[Joe Chambers]]
* [[Warren Smith (jazz percussionist)|Warren Smith]]
* [[Bobby Sanabria]]
}}
'''M'Boom''' was an American jazz percussion group founded by drummer [[Max Roach]] in 1970. The original members were Roach, [[Roy Brooks]], [[Warren Smith (jazz percussionist)|Warren Smith]], [[Joe Chambers]], Omar Clay, [[Ray Mantilla]], and [[Freddie Waits]].
All of M'Boom's members are and always have been percussionists, employing numerous percussion instruments besides the drums. These include bells, gongs, [[marimba]], [[timpani]], [[vibraphone]], [[xylophone]], and [[musical saw]].<ref name="Yanow">{{cite web|last1=Yanow|first1=Scott|title=M'Boom {{!}} Biography & History {{!}} AllMusic|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/mboom-mn0000808459/biography|website=AllMusic|accessdate=18 December 2016}}</ref>
==Discography==
* 1973: ''[[Re: Percussion]]'' ([[Strata-East Records|Strata-East]])
* 1973: ''Re: Percussion'' (Baystate)
* 1979: ''[[M'Boom (album)|M'Boom]]'' ([[Columbia Records|Columbia]])
* 1984: ''[[Collage (M'Boom album)|Collage]]'' ([[Soul Note Records|Soul Note]])
* 1991: ''[[To the Max!]]'' ([[Enja Records|Enja]])
* 1992: ''Live at S.O.B.'s New York'' (Blue Moon)
==References==
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==External links==
*[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DEED61339F934A15755C0A960948260 Concert Review], ''[[New York Times]]'', June 27, 1986
* [https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3n6580c2 "Max Roach and M'Boom: Diasporic Soundings in American Percussion Music"], thesis by Sean Leah Bowden (2018)
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