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 November 1963 and contains performances by Kirk's Quartet and Benny Golson's Orchestra.Rahsaan Roland Kirk discography accessed 9 August 2009
Reception The reviewer for Cash Box noted that their playing together "proves to be worthy and natural as the two come up with some first-rate jazz blendings."
Track listing All compositions by Roland Kirk except as indicated. "Ecclusiastics" (Charles Mingus) - 4:27 "By Myself" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) - 4:20 "Roland Speaks" (Roland Kirk, Benny Golson) - 3:04 "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" (Manning Sherwin, Eric Maschwitz) - 5:13 "Variations on a Theme by Hindemith" - 3:28 "I've Got Your Number" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) - 5:55 "Between the Fourth and the Fifth Step" - 3:41 "April Morning" - 3:43 "Get in the Basement" - 4:03 "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
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