Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith
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| Studio album by Rahsaan Roland Kirk | ||||
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1967 |
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| Label (s) | Verve Records | |||
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LP, CD |
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Title (number) |
8th |
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running time |
32:32 |
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Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith is a jazz album by the Rahsaan Roland Kirk Quartet. Recorded on May 2, 1967 in Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Englewood Cliffs and produced by Creed Taylor , the album was the only one of the musician for the major label Verve Records .
The album
Rashaan Roland Kirk had n't made any of his own recordings since his last session for the Limelight album Strictly Latin in November 1965. After several years with Mercury Records and this only album for Verve, he moved to Atlantic Records . The album, which was composed on May 2, 1967 in a quartet with a rhythm section from pianist Lonnie Liston Smith , drummer Grady Tate and bassist Ronald Boykins , consists for the most part of mostly short interpretations of compositions by the band leader. Added to this was the pop song "Alfie", which was quite popular at the time and composed by Burt Bacharach (which was also used in the film Der Verführer vom Schön greetings ) and the title "It's a Grand Night for Swinging" by Billy Taylor , from whom too the liner notes originate. The title of the album Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith refers to Kirk's wife Edith, who is also pictured next to her husband on the cover photo.
The first track on the album, the blues “Blue Rol”, is heavily influenced by Ellington's music , especially its brass section, and at six minutes it is by far the longest on the album. Kirk plays his three wind instruments simultaneously, except for his tenor solo with circular breathing , and Lonnie Liston Smith stays in the middle register when playing . This is followed by the pop song "Alfie" - made famous by Cher and also successfully interpreted by Dionne Warwick . With his warm ballad tone, Kirk is reminiscent of Ben Webster's game . The medium-tempo piece “Why Don't They Know” with its bossa rhythms is introduced by playing the flute and the calls of Roland Kirk; his lamenting chant forms the end: " After fifteen years, twenty-five years, they should know by now ". After “Silverization”, carried by the slow beat Grady Tates, follows the rock 'n' roll influenced track “Fallout”. With the title track, Kirk's quartet plays another soulful ballad; after “Stompin 'Grounds”, “It's a Grand Night for Swinging”, Billy Taylor's composition based on a simple riff figure , sets the brilliant conclusion: “Finally, with the Taylor piece - after the breathtaking arpeggio orgy in“ Stompin' Grounds ”between Kirk and Smith - the elegance of the musician through as Kirk's flute hovers over the rhythm section (...). Smith's piano playing is so light-footed here, his touch so fast and fluid that Kirk can simply slide through the piece, ”wrote critic Thom Jurek in Allmusic .
Reception of the album
Compared to previous albums such as Rip, Rig and Panic from 1965, this session was less exceptional in its claim, judged Jurek, who gave the album four (out of five) stars. It was the first of its consistently with a groove provided plates and thus the "beginning of a development which the listeners to later albums like Black walnut (1971) and Boogie Woogie String Along for Real led".
Editorial note
For the CD edition of 1990, the album was coupled by Polygram on their sub-label EmArCy with the aforementioned Mercury album Rip, Rig and Panic .
Title of the album
- Verve V6-8709 (LP), EmArCy 832 164-3 (CD)
- Blue Rol - 6:09
- Alfie (Burt Bacharach / Hal David ) - 2:52
- Why Don't They Know - 2:54
- Silverization - 4:57
- Fallout - 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
All other compositions are by Roland Kirk.