Rich versus Roach is a 1959 studio album by drummers Buddy Rich and Max Roach with their respective bands of the time. The album is mixed with each of the two bands in a different stereo channel. The Buddy Rich Quintet can be heard on the left channel, the Max Roach Quintet on the right.
Track listing LP side A "Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)" (Louis Prima) – 4:06 "The Casbah" (Gigi Gryce) – 4:25 "Sleep" (Earl Burtnett, Adam Geibel) – 3:15 "Figure Eights" (Buddy Rich, Max Roach) – 4:26 LP side B "Yesterdays" (Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern) – 4:15At least one source lists a very different length for "Yesterdays" on the LP. 5:43 vs. 4:15, 4:15 "Big Foot" (Charlie Parker) – 4:59 "Limehouse Blues" (Philip Braham, Douglas Furber) – 3:42 "Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Goodbye" (Ernie Erdman, Ted Fio Rito, Gus Kahn, Robert A. K. King) – 3:50
1986 CD re-issue with alternate versions: "Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)" (alt. take) – 4:22 "Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)" – 4:08 "The Casbah" – 4:28 "The Casbah" (alt. take) – 4:58 "Sleep" – 3:18 "Figure Eights" – 4:30 "Yesterdays" – 5:41 "Big Foot" – 5:00 "Big Foot" (alt. take) – 5:14 "Limehouse Blues" – 3:56 "Limehouse Blues" (alt. take) – 3:43 "Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Goodbye" – 3:57
Personnel Rich's band Buddy Rich – drums, percussion Phil Woods – alto saxophone Willie Dennis – trombone Phil Leshin – double bass John Bunch – piano
Roach's band Max Roach – drums Stanley Turrentine – tenor saxophone Julian Priester – trombone Tommy Turrentine – trumpet Bobby Boswell – double bass
Production Jack Tracy – producer, liner notes Gigi Gryce – arranger Bill Stoddard – engineer Kiyoshi "Boxman" Koyama – compilation, research
References
Mercury MG-20448 (original LP) Mercury 826987-2 (CD)