The Roland Kirk Quartet Meets the Benny Golson Orchestra

The Roland Kirk Quartet Meets the Benny Golson Orchestra
Studio album by Roland Kirk
Released 1964
Recorded June 11 & 12, 1963
Genre Jazz
Label Mercury
Roland Kirk chronology
Reeds & Deeds
(1963)Reeds & Deeds1963		 The Roland Kirk Quartet Meets the Benny Golson Orchestra
(1963)		 Kirk in Copenhagen
(1964)Kirk in Copenhagen1964
Benny Golson chronology
Free
(1962) Free1962		 The Roland Kirk Quartet Meets the Benny Golson Orchestra
(1963) The Roland Kirk Quartet Meets the Benny Golson Orchestra1963		 Stockholm Sojourn
(1964) Stockholm Sojourn1964
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The Roland Kirk Quartet Meets the Benny Golson Orchestra is an album by jazz multi-instrumentalist Roland Kirk. It was originally released on the Mercury label in 1964 and features performances by Kirk's Quartet and Benny Golson's Orchestra.[2] The cover artwork was by Dezső Csanády.

Track listing

All compositions by Roland Kirk except as indicated.
  1. "Ecclusiastics" (Charles Mingus) - 4:27
  2. "By Myself" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) - 4:20
  3. "Roland Speaks" (Roland Kirk, Benny Golson) - 3:04
  4. "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" (Manning Sherwin, Eric Maschwitz) - 5:13
  5. "Variations on a Theme by Hindemith" - 3:28
  6. "I've Got Your Number" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) - 5:55
  7. "Between the Fourth and the Fifth Step" - 3:41
  8. "April Morning" - 3:43
  9. "Get in the Basement" - 4:03
  10. "Abstract Improvisation" - 1:58
  • Recorded in New York on June 11 (tracks 1-5) & June 12 (tracks 6-10), 1963

Personnel

The Roland Kirk Quartet
The Benny Golson Orchestra (tracks 1-5)

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic Review
  2. ↑ Rahsaan Roland Kirk discography accessed 9 August 2009
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