Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith

1967 studio album by Roland Kirk

Studio album by

Roland Kirk

Released

June 1967 (1967-06)

Recorded

May 2, 1967

Studio

Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

Genre

Jazz

Length

32:12

Label

Verve

Producer

Creed Taylor

Roland Kirk chronology

Slightly Latin
(1965)

Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith
(1967)

The Inflated Tear
(1967)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[2]

Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith is an album by the jazz multi-instrumentalist Roland Kirk, released on the Verve label in 1967. It contains performances by Kirk with Lonnie Liston Smith, Ronnie Boykins and Grady Tate.^[3]

Reception

The AllMusic review by Thom Jurek states: "Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith (about Kirk's wife) was the first of his all groove sides.... This was the beginning of the exploration that led listeners to Blacknuss and Boogie-Woogie String Along for Real, and it is worth every bit as those two recordings".^[1] Richard Cook and Brian Morton rated the CD reissue of the album, combined with the album Rip, Rig and Panic, with the second-highest grade in their Penguin Guide to Jazz, and named the reissue as part of their suggested “core collection” of essential recordings.^[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Roland Kirk except as noted

"Blue Rol" - 6:09
"Alfie" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) - 2:52
"Why Don't They Know" - 2:54
"Silverlization" - 4:57
"Fall Out" - 3:01
"Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith" - 4:23
"Stompin' Grounds" - 4:46
"It's a Grand Night for Swinging" (Billy Taylor) - 3:10

Personnel

Roland Kirk: tenor saxophone, manzello, stritch, flute
Lonnie Liston Smith: piano
Ronnie Boykins: bass
Grady Tate: drums

References

^ ^a ^b AllMusic Review
^ ^a ^b Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 828. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
^ Rahsaan Roland Kirk discography accessed 11 August 2009