1959 studio album by Abbey Lincoln
Abbey Is Blue Abbey Lincoln featuring tracks recorded in 1959 for the Riverside label.[1]
Reception [ ] Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating All About Jazz [2] Allmusic [3] New York Age [4] The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings [5] The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide [6]
Allmusic awarded the album 4½ stars, with the review by Scott Yanow stating: "Abbey Lincoln is quite emotional and distinctive during a particularly strong set... very memorable".[3] All About Jazz Tin Pan Alley tunes and could truly sing about subjects that mattered to them. Lincoln picked up Billie Holiday 's skill at inhabiting the lyrics of a song and projecting its emotional content outward, and these songs, all of which deal with sorrow, are stark and harrowing accounts of loss and injustice."[2]
Track listing [ ] "Afro Blue " (Mongo Santamaría ) - 3:20
"Lonely House " (Langston Hughes , Kurt Weill ) - 3:40
"Let Up" (Abbey Lincoln) - 5:32
"Thursday's Child" (Elisse Boyd, Murray Grand ) - 3:31
"Brother, Where Are You?" (Oscar Brown ) - 3:10
"Laugh, Clown, Laugh " (Ted Fio Rito , Sam M. Lewis , Joe Young ) - 5:24
"Come Sunday " (Duke Ellington ) - 5:13
"Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise " (Oscar Hammerstein II , Sigmund Romberg ) - 2:46
"Lost in the Stars " (Maxwell Anderson , Kurt Weill) - 4:11
"Long as You're Living" (Oscar Brown, Julian Priester , Tommy Turrentine ) - 2:33 Personnel [ ] Abbey Lincoln - vocals Kenny Dorham (tracks 2, 4 & 7-9), Tommy Turrentine (tracks 1, 3, 6 & 10) - trumpet Julian Priester - trombone (tracks 1, 3, 6 & 10)Stanley Turrentine - tenor saxophone (tracks 1, 3, 6 & 10)Les Spann - guitar (tracks 2, 4 & 7-9), flute (track 5)Wynton Kelly (tracks 2, 4, 5), Cedar Walton (tracks 3 & 6), Phil Wright (tracks 7-9) - piano Bobby Boswell (tracks 1, 3, 6 & 10), Sam Jones (tracks 2, 4, 5 & 7-9) - bass
Philly Joe Jones (tracks: 2, 4, 5 & 7-9), Max Roach (tracks: 1, 3, 6 & 10) - drums References [ ]
^ Riverside Records discography accessed September 13, 2012^ Jump up to: a b Rickert, David, "Abbey Lincoln: Abbey Is Blue" , All About Jazz
^ Jump up to: a b Yanow, Scott, Allmusic Review , accessed September 13, 2012.
^ Stone, Louise Davis (13 February 1960). "The Jazz Bit" . New York Age . p. 12. Retrieved 8 March 2015 . ^ Cook, Richard ; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings Penguin . p. 894. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0 ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide . USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 126. ISBN 0-394-72643-X
show Years given are for the recording(s), including the soundtrack albums, not first release.
As AndShirley WithMax With
Freedom Kenny Burrell , 1963–64)Midnight Blue I'm Tryin' to Get Home Donald Byrd , 1964)Up with Donald Byrd With the Tenors of Our Time Roy Hargrove , 1994)Life Flight Flight to Jordan Duke Jordan , 1960)Only Trust Your Heart Diana Krall , 1994)Abbey Is Blue Abbey Lincoln , 1959)Les McCann Ltd. in New York Les McCann , 1961)Electric Funk Jimmy McGriff , 1969)Speakin' My Piece Horace Parlan , 1960)On the Spur of the Moment The Right Touch Duke Pearson , 1967)Easy Living Congo Lament (Ike Quebec , 1962)Comin' On! Dizzy Reece , 1960)Serenade to a Soul Sister Horace Silver , 1968)Back at the Chicken Shack Jimmy Smith , 1960)Midnight Special Prayer Meetin' A.T.'s Delight Art Taylor , 1960)
show Year(s) indicated are for the recording(s), not first release.
As AsArt Blakey The Jazz WithArt Farmer Benny The Jazztet WithEddie Harris WithBilly Higgins WithMilt Jackson WithEtta James
Mystery Lady: Songs of Billie Holiday Time After Time 12 Songs of Christmas Blue Gardenia WithClifford WithBlue WithHouston
Chocomotive Trust in Me Blue Odyssey Broken Windows, Empty Hallways The Big Horn Very Personal Naturally With
God Bless Jug and Sonny Gene Ammons & Sonny Stitt , 1973)Left Bank Encores Something for Lester Ray Brown , 1977)Slow Drag Donald Byrd , 1967)The Almoravid Joe Chambers , 1971–73)Somethin's Cookin' Junior Cook , 1981)Broken Shadows Ornette Coleman , 1971–72)Katumbo (Dance) Giant Steps John Coltrane , 1959)Up, Up and Away Sonny Criss , 1967)The Beat Goes On! This Is the Moment! Kenny Dorham , 1958)Blue Spring Cannonball Adderley , 1959)It's All Right! Teddy Edwards , 1967)Soul Trombone Curtis Fuller , 1961)Smokin' Tangerine Dexter Gordon , 1972)Generation Bush Dance Johnny Griffin , 1978)Roots Slide Hampton , 1985)The Quota Jimmy Heath , 1961)Triple Threat Mode for Joe Joe Henderson , 1966)Hub Cap Freddie Hubbard , 1961)Here to Stay The Body & the Soul Bolivia Highway One Bobby Hutcherson , 1978)Farewell Keystone Really Livin' J.J. Johnson , 1959)J.J. Inc. Save Your Love for Me Etta Jones , 1986)Advance! Philly Joe Jones , 1978)Drum Song Seven Minds Sam Jones , 1974)Something in Common First Class Kloss! Eric Kloss , 1967)Abbey Is Blue Abbey Lincoln , 1959)Strings! Pat Martino , 1967)From This Moment On! Charles McPherson , 1968)Horizons Caramba! Lee Morgan , 1968)The Sixth Sense The Mode Sonny Red , 1961)Sonny Red Setting Standards Woody Shaw , 1983)For Losers Archie Shepp , 1968–69)Kwanza Now Is the Time Idrees Sulieman , 1976)Goodbye Yesterday Lucky Thompson , 1972)Concert: Friday the 13th - Cook County Jail I Offer You Another Story Stanley Turrentine , 1969)Up Front David Williams , 1986)
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