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roland KIRK

Now Please Don’t You Cry, Beautiful Edith (Acoustic Sounds Series)

remastered 180g LP in deluxe gatefold sleeve - £37.99 | Buy
Released in 1967 with personnel including Lonnie Liston Smith (piano), Ronnie Boykins (bass), and Grady Tate (drums), 'Now Please Don’t You Cry' m...
We Free Kings (Acoustic Sounds Series)
  1. Three For The Festival
  2. Moon Song
  3. A Sack Full Of Soul
  4. The Haunted Melody
  5. Blues For Alice
  6. We Free Kings
  7. You Dit It, You Did It
  8. Some Kind Of Love
  9. My Delight

roland KIRK

We Free Kings (Acoustic Sounds Series)

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  • LP in Gatefold Sleeve

    Released: 13th Jun 2025

    £36.99
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Known as one of a then-young Kirk’s more consistent works, 1962’s 'We Free Kings' is a solid balance of bop with complimenting soul, backed by two different rhythm sections.

One including Hank Jones (piano) and Wendell Marshall (bass), and the other with Richard Wyands (piano) and Art Davis (bass), while Charlie Persip (drums) maintains throughout. The repertoire is primarily a showcase of Kirk’s skill is a composer, though his take on Bird’s “Blues For Alice” is not to be missed.