Rich Versus Roach

Rich versus Roach
Studio album by Buddy Rich and Max Roach
Released 1959
Recorded 1959
Genre Jazz
Length 32:58
Label Mercury
Producer Jack Tracy
Buddy Rich chronology
Richcraft
(1959)Richcraft1959		 Rich versus Roach
(1959)		 The Voice is Rich
(1959)The Voice is Rich1959
Max Roach chronology
The Many Sides of Max
(1959) The Many Sides of Max1959		 Rich versus Roach
(1959) Rich versus Roach1959		 Quiet as It's Kept
(1959) Quiet as It's Kept1959
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Rich versus Roach is a 1959 studio album by drummers Buddy Rich and Max Roach with their respective bands of the time.[2] The album is mixed with each of the two bands in a different stereo channel.

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 Lebieg) – 3:15
  4. "Figure Eights" (Buddy Rich, Max Roach) – 4:26

LP side B

  1. "Yesterdays" (Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern) – 4:15[3]
  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

technical personnel

  • Gigi Gryce - arranger
  • Bill Stoddard - engineer
  • Jack Tracy - producer, liner notes
  • Kiyoshi "Boxman" Koyama - compilation, research

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ Rich versus Roach at AllMusic
  3. ↑ At least one source lists a very different length for "Yesterdays" on the LP. 5:43 vs. 4:15, 4:15
  • Mercury MG-20448 (original LP)
  • Mercury 826987-2 (CD)
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