The Roland Kirk Quartet Meets the Benny Golson Orchestra

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 with Harold Mabern, Abdullah Rafik, Sonny Brown and Benny Golson's Orchestra featuring Virgil Jones, Richard Williams, Charles Greenlea, Tom McIntosh, Don Butterfield, Albert "Tootie" Heath and Richard Davis.^[2]

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

• Roland Kirk: tenor saxophone, manzello, stritch, flute, siren
• Virgil Jones, Richard Williams: trumpet (tracks 1-5)
• Charles Greenlea, Tom McIntosh: trombone (tracks 1-5)
• Harold Mabern: piano
• Richard Davis: bass (tracks 1-5)
• Abdullah Rafik: bass (tracks 6-10)
• Albert Heath: drums (tracks 1-5)
• Sonny Brown: drums (tracks 6-10)
• Tom McIntosh: trombone (tracks 6-8)
• Richard Davis: bass (tracks 6-8)
• Benny Golson: conductor, arranger (tracks 1-5)

References