Rich Versus Roach

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.

Track listing
LP side A LP side B
 * 1) "Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)" (Louis Prima) – 4:06
 * 2) "The Casbah" (Gigi Gryce) – 4:25
 * 3) "Sleep" (Earl Burtnett, Adam Geibel) – 3:15
 * 4) "Figure Eights" (Buddy Rich, Max Roach) – 4:26
 * 1) "Yesterdays" (Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern) – 4:15
 * 2) "Big Foot" (Charlie Parker) – 4:59
 * 3) "Limehouse Blues" (Philip Braham, Douglas Furber) – 3:42
 * 4) "Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Goodbye" (Ernie Erdman, Ted Fio Rito, Gus Kahn, Robert A. K. King) – 3:50

1986 CD re-issue with alternate versions:
 * 1) "Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)" (alt. take) – 4:22
 * 2) "Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)" – 4:08
 * 3) "The Casbah" – 4:28
 * 4) "The Casbah" (alt. take) – 4:58
 * 5) "Sleep" – 3:18
 * 6) "Figure Eights" – 4:30
 * 7) "Yesterdays" – 5:41
 * 8) "Big Foot" – 5:00
 * 9) "Big Foot" (alt. take) – 5:14
 * 10) "Limehouse Blues" – 3:56
 * 11) "Limehouse Blues" (alt. take) – 3:43
 * 12) "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