Rich Versus Roach

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Rich versus Roach
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Studio album by
Buddy Rich and Max Roach
Released1959
RecordedApril 7–8, 1959
Genre Jazz
Length32:58
Label Mercury
Producer Jack Tracy
Buddy Rich chronology
Richcraft
(1959)		Rich versus Roach
(1959)		 The Voice is Rich
(1959)
Max Roach chronology
The Many Sides of Max
(1959)		Rich versus Roach
(1959)		 Quiet as It's Kept
(1959)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Tom Hull B+ ( Five Pointed Star Solid.svg Five Pointed Star Solid.svg ) [2]

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.

Contents

Track listing

LP side A

  1. "Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)" (Louis Prima) – 4:06
  2. "The Casbah" (Gigi Gryce) – 4:25
  3. "Sleep" (Earl Burtnett, Adam Geibel) – 3:15
  4. "Figure Eights" (Buddy Rich, Max Roach) – 4:26

LP side B

  1. "Yesterdays" (Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern) – 4:15 [4]
  2. "Big Foot" (Charlie Parker) – 4:59
  3. "Limehouse Blues" (Philip Braham, Douglas Furber) – 3:42
  4. "Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Goodbye" (Ernie Erdman, Ted Fio Rito, Gus Kahn, Robert A. K. King) – 3:50

1986 CD re-issue with alternate versions:

  1. "Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)" (alt. take) – 4:22
  2. "Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)" – 4:08
  3. "The Casbah" – 4:28
  4. "The Casbah" (alt. take) – 4:58
  5. "Sleep" – 3:18
  6. "Figure Eights" – 4:30
  7. "Yesterdays" – 5:41
  8. "Big Foot" – 5:00
  9. "Big Foot" (alt. take) – 5:14
  10. "Limehouse Blues" – 3:56
  11. "Limehouse Blues" (alt. take) – 3:43
  12. "Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Goodbye" – 3:57

Personnel

Rich's band

Roach's band

Production

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ Hull, Tom (June 2, 2020). "Music Week". Tom Hull – On the Web. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
  3. ↑ Rich versus Roach at AllMusic
  4. ↑ At least one source lists a very different length for "Yesterdays" on the LP. 5:43 vs. 4:15, 4:15
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