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)

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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.^[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

• Phil Woods - alto saxophone
• Stanley Turrentine - tenor saxophone
• Willie Dennis - trombone
• Julian Priester - trombone
• Tommy Turrentine - trumpet
• Bobby Boswell - double bass
• Phil Leshin - double bass
• John Bunch - piano
• Buddy Rich - drums, percussion
• Max Roach - drums
• 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)