Abbey Lincoln - Early Years: The Albums Collection 1957-61 (2026)

Tracklist

CD1
01. Love Walked In
02. I Didn't Know About You
03. Would I Love You
04. I Wake Up Smiling
05. This Can't Be Love
06. Crazy He Calls Me
07. Two Cigarettes In The Dark
08. The Masquerade Is Over
09. Take Me In Your Arms
10. Together
11. Affair
12. No More
13. Strong Man
14. Happiness Is A Thing Called Joe
15. My Man
16. Tender As A Rose
17. That's Him
18. I Must Have That Man
19. Porgy
20. When A Woman Loves A Man
21. Don't Explain

CD2
01. Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man
02. I Am In Love
03. It's Magic
04. Just For Me
05. An Occasional Man
06. Ain't Nobody's Business
07. Out Of The Past
08. Music, Maestro, Please
09. Love
10. Exactly Like You
11. Little Niles
12. Afro-Blue
13. Lonely House
14. Let Up
15. Thursday's Child
16. Brother, Where Are You?
17. Laugh, Clown, Laugh
18. Come Sunday
19. Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise
20. Long As You're Living

CD3
01. Lost In The Stars
02. I Concentrate On You
03. Never Leave Me
04. Straight Ahead
05. When Malindy Sings
06. In The Red
07. Blue Monk
08. Left Alone
09. African Lady
10. Retribution
11. Garvey's Ghost
12. Mendacity



Abbey Lincoln, born in Chicago in 1930, was a jazz vocalist and songwriter, who also became an actress and civil rights activist during the 1960s, and was married to renowned jazz drummer Max Roach. Greatly influenced by Billie Holiday, her stock-in-trade was the delivery of heartfelt versions of classic standards, as well as seamlessly interpolating her vocals into extended jazz improvisations. Scott Yanow at allmusic.com calls her A dramatic performer whose interpretations were full of truth and insight - she always meant the lyrics she sang. This 53-track collection features all the titles from albums at the start of her career, A Story of A Girl In Love on Liberty, That's Him, It's Magic and Abbey Is Blue on Riverside, Straight Ahead on Candid, and selected titles from the Max Roach albums Moon-faced And Starry-eyed, and Percussion Bitter Sweet. It features recordings with some of the noted jazz musicians of the era, including The Benny Carter Orchestra, and in the small groups, Kenny Dorham, Sonny Rollins, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, Max Roach, Benny Golson, Philly Joe Jones, Stanley Turrentine, Ray Bryant, Booker Little, Eric Dolphy and others. She was a highly distinctive song stylist and this is an enlightening and enjoyable showcase for an artist who is sometimes referred to as the last of the great jazz singers.