In November 1963, “Mercury” label released “The Roland Kirk Quartet Meets the Benny Golson Orchestra”, the seventh Roland Kirk album. It was recorded in June 1963 in New York City.
Personnel:
- Roland Kirk – tenor saxophone, manzello, stritch, flute, siren
- Harold Mabern – piano
- Abdullah Rafik – bass
- Sonny Brown – drums
The Benny Golson Orchestra
- Benny Golson – conductor, arranger
- Richard Williams, Virgil Jones – trumpet
- Charles Greenlee, Tom McIntosh – trombone
- Don Butterfield – tuba
- Richard Davis – bass
- Albert Heath – drums
- Dezső Csanády – artwork
- Leonard Feather – liner notes
Track listing:
All tracks by Roland Kirk, except where noted.
- Ecclusiastics – Charles Mingus
- By Myself – Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz
- Roland Speaks – Roland Kirk, Benny Golson
- A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square – Manning Sherwin, Eric Maschwitz
- Variations on a Theme by Hindemith
- I’ve Got Your Number – Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh
- Between the Fourth and the Fifth Step
- April Morning
- Get in the Basement
- Abstract Improvisation
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