The Roland Kirk Quartet Meets the Benny Golson Orchestra

The Roland Kirk Quartet Meets the Benny Golson Orchestra
The Roland Kirk Quartet Meets the Benny Golson Orchestra
Studio album by Roland Kirk
Released	November 1963
Recorded	June 11 & 12, 1963
Genre	Jazz
Label	Mercury
Roland Kirk chronology
Benny Golson chronology

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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 November 1963 and contains performances by Kirk's Quartet and Benny Golson's Orchestra.^[1]^[2]^[4]

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."^[2]

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

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Mercury Records (23 November 1963). "New from Mercury Records". Billboard. The Billboard Publishing Co. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Editorial Staff, Cash Box (30 November 1963). "The Roland Kirk Quartet Meets the Benny Golson Orch" (PDF). The Cash Box. The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc., NY. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
^ AllMusic Review
^ Rahsaan Roland Kirk discography accessed 9 August 2009

[BillboardNov63-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b Mercury Records (23 November 1963). "New from Mercury Records". Billboard. The Billboard Publishing Co. Retrieved 2 September 2019.

[CashBoxNov63-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Editorial Staff, Cash Box (30 November 1963). "The Roland Kirk Quartet Meets the Benny Golson Orch" (PDF). The Cash Box. The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc., NY. Retrieved 10 September 2019.

[3] AllMusic Review

[Kirk_disco-4] Rahsaan Roland Kirk discography accessed 9 August 2009

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Studio albums	Triple Threat (1957) Introducing Roland Kirk (1960) Kirk's Work (1961) We Free Kings (1962) Domino (1962) Reeds & Deeds (1963) The Roland Kirk Quartet Meets the Benny Golson Orchestra (1963) Gifts & Messages (1964) I Talk with the Spirits (1964) Slightly Latin (1965) Rip, Rig and Panic (1965) Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith (1967) The Inflated Tear (1967) Left & Right (1968) Volunteered Slavery (1969) Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata (1971) Blacknuss (1972) A Meeting of the Times (1972) Prepare Thyself to Deal with a Miracle (1973) The Case of the 3 Sided Dream in Audio Color (1975) Other Folks' Music (1976) The Return of the 5000 Lb. Man (1976) Kirkatron (1977) Boogie-Woogie String Along for Real (1977)
Live albums	Kirk in Copenhagen (1964) Here Comes the Whistleman (1965) Rahsaan Rahsaan (1970) Bright Moments (1973) I, Eye, Aye: Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival, 1972 (1996) Brotherman in the Fatherland (2006)
Compilation albums	Dog Years in the Fourth Ring (1997)