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)		 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
Source Rating
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]

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

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


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