The Roland Kirk Quartet Meets the Benny Golson Orchestra

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The Roland Kirk Quartet Meets the Benny Golson Orchestra
Studio album by
Roland Kirk
ReleasedNovember 1963[1][2]
RecordedJune 11–12, 1963
GenreJazz
LabelMercury
Roland Kirk chronology
Reeds & Deeds
(1963) 		The Roland Kirk Quartet Meets the Benny Golson Orchestra
(1963) 		Kirk in Copenhagen
(1964)
Benny Golson chronology
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(1962) 		The Roland Kirk Quartet Meets the Benny Golson Orchestra
(1963) 		Stockholm Sojourn
(1964)
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AllMusic[3]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

The Roland Kirk Quartet
The Benny Golson Orchestra (tracks 1–5)

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Mercury Records (23 November 1963). "New from Mercury Records". Billboard. The Billboard Publishing Co. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
  2. ^ 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
  4. ^ Rahsaan Roland Kirk discography accessed 9 August 2009
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