Rich Versus 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. 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
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

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

• 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

technical personnel

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

References

• Mercury MG-20448 (original LP)
• Mercury 826987-2 (CD)