Rich Versus Roach
1959 studio album by Buddy Rich and Max Roach
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Rich versus Roach is a 1959 studio album by drummers Buddy Rich and Max Roach with their respective bands of the time.[3] The album is mixed with each of the two bands in a different stereo channel. The Buddy Rich Quintet can be heard on the left channel, the Max Roach Quintet on the right.
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| Studio album by Buddy Rich and Max Roach | ||||
| Released | 1959 | |||
| Recorded | April 7–8, 1959 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 32:58 | |||
| Label | Mercury | |||
| Producer | Jack Tracy | |||
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Track listing
LP side A
- "Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)" (Louis Prima) – 4:06
- "The Casbah" (Gigi Gryce) – 4:25
- "Sleep" (Earl Burtnett, Adam Geibel) – 3:15
- "Figure Eights" (Buddy Rich, Max Roach) – 4:26
LP side B
- "Yesterdays" (Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern) – 4:15[4]
- "Big Foot" (Charlie Parker) – 4:59
- "Limehouse Blues" (Philip Braham, Douglas Furber) – 3:42
- "Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Goodbye" (Ernie Erdman, Ted Fio Rito, Gus Kahn, Robert A. K. King) – 3:50
1986 CD re-issue with alternate versions:
- "Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)" (alt. take) – 4:22
- "Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)" – 4:08
- "The Casbah" – 4:28
- "The Casbah" (alt. take) – 4:58
- "Sleep" – 3:18
- "Figure Eights" – 4:30
- "Yesterdays" – 5:41
- "Big Foot" – 5:00
- "Big Foot" (alt. take) – 5:14
- "Limehouse Blues" – 3:56
- "Limehouse Blues" (alt. take) – 3:43
- "Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Goodbye" – 3:57
Personnel
Rich's band
- Buddy Rich – drums, percussion
- Phil Woods – alto saxophone
- Willie Dennis – trombone
- Phil Leshin – double bass
- John Bunch – piano
Roach's band
- Max Roach – drums
- Stanley Turrentine – tenor saxophone
- Julian Priester – trombone
- Tommy Turrentine – trumpet
- Bobby Boswell – double bass
Production
- Jack Tracy – producer, liner notes
- Gigi Gryce – arranger
- Bill Stoddard – engineer
- Kiyoshi "Boxman" Koyama – compilation, research