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Released
  
1964

Artist
  
Rahsaan Roland Kirk

Label
  
Mercury Records

Recorded
  
June 11 & 12 1963

Release date
  
1964

Genre
  
Jazz

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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.

Contents

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
  • Roland Kirk: tenor saxophone, manzello, stritch, flute, siren
  • Harold Mabern: piano (tracks 1-9)
  • Abdullah Rafik: bass (tracks 6-9)
  • Sonny Brown: drums (tracks 6-9)
    • The Benny Golson Orchestra (tracks 1-5)
  • Benny Golson: conductor, arranger
  • Richard Williams, Virgil Jones: trumpet
  • Charles Greenlee, Tom McIntosh: trombone
  • Don Butterfield: tuba
  • Richard Davis: bass
  • Albert Heath: drums

    • References

    The Roland Kirk Quartet Meets the Benny Golson Orchestra Wikipedia
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