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  PBS - JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns: Selected Artist Biography - Abbey Lincoln
Abbey Lincoln began performing professionally in the early 1950s, using the names Anna Marie, Gaby Lee, and Gaby Wooldridge.
In 1956, after taking the name Abbey Lincoln, she made her first recording, with Benny Carter's orchestra.
Shortly afterwards, she recorded as the leader of a group that included Sonny Rollins and Max Roach.
www.pbs.org /jazz/biography/artist_id_lincoln_abbey.htm   (239 words)

  
 NEA Jazz Masters AbbeyLincoln
The 10th of 12 children, Abbey Lincoln grew up in a small, rural area marked by its place in history as a stop along the Underground Railroad slavery escape route.
Abbey Lincoln has long been noted as a spiritual descendent of Billie Holiday, particularly in her ever so slightly behind the beat way of phrasing.
Among Lincoln's essential contributions to this epic is a raw, howling moment of rage on the piece Tryptich: Prayer/Protest/Peace guaranteed to chill the bones.
www.iaje.org /bio.asp?ArtistID=69   (556 words)

  
 Abbey Lincoln Biography
Lincoln then recorded a series of albums for the Riverside label with drummer Max Roach, who had introduced her to the label's owner.
Lincoln's collaborations with Roach (to whom she was married from 1962- 70) lasted more than a decade, and included the seminal recording, Freedom Now Suite in 1960.
Lincoln returned to her influences in 1987, recording two albums in tribute to Billie Holiday, and then a series of recordings for Verve throughout the 1990s that showcased her writing prowess.
www.jdscomm.com /jrr/features/bios/icons_bios/abbey_bio.html   (338 words)

  
 Abbey Lincoln - It's Me - Verve Records
Abbey Lincoln is one of the most distinctive, individual voices in jazz and perhaps the only living singer who can be rightfully compared to Billie Holiday, so authentic, particular, and soul-penetrating is her delivery of every song she touches.
Alone among her peers, Lincoln has established herself as a singer/songwriter, with a diverse and compelling songbook which in 2002 was recognized in an extraordinary three-night tribute at New York’s Lincoln Center that covered only a fraction of Lincoln’s songwriting output.
Lincoln has distilled herself and her art to a fine essence, becoming so uniquely herself that she rings with universal truth.
www.vervemusicgroup.com /product.aspx?ob=disc&src=art&pid=10863   (462 words)

  
 Abbey Lincoln - Verve Records
Lincoln, who turns 70 this year, is one of the last great jazz singers, as well as one of the music's most gifted songwriters.
Lincoln has made a career out of pursuing her art with integrity and raising the bar on matters of the heart.
Lincoln also enjoyed a film career in the '60s (including 1964's Nothing But a Man and 1966's For the Love of Ivy, the latter co-starring Sidney Poitier), and it came as quite a surprise to her when in the early '70s she began writing her own songs.
www.vervemusicgroup.com /artist.aspx?aid=2854   (1054 words)

  
 NYPL, Video Gallery Cataloging Data: Abbey Lincoln
Born Anna Marie Lincoln, she began experimenting with piano at age 5 and performing in the school and church choir at 6.
Lincoln's career took off when, in 1956, Bob Russell arranged her first Note recording (Benny Carter/Liberty) and, in 1957, when she began writing her own lyrics and recording with Max Roach.
Lincoln sees regression and decay in the music industry today and, because of its ethnocentric curricula, is distrustful of higher education.
www.nypl.org /research/sc/scl/MULTIMED/JAZZHIST/alcat.htm   (699 words)

  
 BBC - Radio 3 Jazz Profiles - Abbey Lincoln
She shares Holiday's ability to take liberties with time and with the shape of a melody, and she has the ability to inject the same world-weary timbre into her voice, especially when singing her own politically charged lyrics.
She began singing and acting under a variety of names - but after settling on Abbey Lincoln in the mid-1950s, she began to make her mark as a highly individual and talented singer.
Lincoln has a completely original way of delivering a lyric, often chopping up a stanza into short bursts, or parts of a line, and stressing syllables that make more musical than literary sense, but she never loses her ability to pack an emotional punch in her singing.
www.bbc.co.uk /radio3/jazz/profiles/abbey_lincoln.shtml   (328 words)

  
 Abbey Lincoln MP3 Downloads - Abbey Lincoln Music Downloads - Abbey Lincoln Music Videos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach were married in 1962, an association that lasted until 1970.
They worked together for a while but Lincoln (who found it harder to get work in jazz due to the political nature of some of her music) became involved in acting and did not record as a leader during 1962-72.
In fact, not that the Abbey Lincoln was particularly humorous but there was something special, something unique that brought a smile to my face when I watched this.
www.mp3.com /abbey-lincoln/artists/36269/summary.html   (363 words)

  
 Amazon.com: A Turtle's Dream: Music: Abbey Lincoln   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Since her 1960 recording for Candid, Abbey Lincoln has brought an unequaled passion to the jazz vocal art, an ability to invest words with special shades of meaning that recalls the spirit of Billie Holiday.
Lincoln composed most of the music and lyrics on this 1994 set, and each song is a journey into the self, into the wellsprings of life, from loss to joy.
Lincoln in several live performances at Jazz at Lincoln Center and she is just the hippest, most graceful, classy individual there is. A true artist.
www.amazon.com /Turtles-Dream-Abbey-Lincoln/dp/B000001EEH   (1429 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Living / Arts / Unsung Abbey Lincoln hasn't changed her tune
Lincoln knew these legendary women, and learned well from them, but her style is not derivative -- nobody sounds like Abbey Lincoln.
As Lincoln came of age as a singer, she met such jazz luminaries as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, and others, whose advice and tutelage greatly influenced her.
On "It's Me," Lincoln composed four songs: "Love is Made," "Chateaux de Joux," "They Call It Jazz," and "Can You Dig It." There's also her lovely rendition of the traditional spiritual of unknown origin, "It's Me, O Lord (Standin' in the Need of Prayer)," to which she's added new lyrics.
www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2003/12/12/unsung_abbey_lincoln_hasnt_changed_her_tune   (855 words)

  
 Kennedy Center: Biographical information for Abbey Lincoln
Abbey Lincoln is a legendary singer and composer, as well as an accomplished actress.
Lincoln has resisted the bleak side of life to emerge as a genuine carrier of celebration through music.
Lincoln’s most recent appearance for the Kennedy Center was with her quartet on March 30, 2001 as part of the Louis Armstrong Legacy Series.
www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&entity_id=4753&source_type=A   (344 words)

  
 VH1.com : Abbey Lincoln : Biography - Urge Music Downloads   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
As with her hero Billie Holiday, Abbey Lincoln always means the lyrics she sings.
Lincoln's first of three albums for Riverside (1957-59) had Max Roach on drums and he was a major influence on her; she began to be choosy about the songs she sang and to give words the proper emotional intensity.
Lincoln held her own on her early dates with such sidemen as Kenny Dorham, Sonny Rollins, Wynton Kelly, Curtis Fuller and Benny Golson.
www.vh1.com /artists/az/lincoln_abbey/bio.jhtml   (376 words)

  
 Metroactive Music | Abbey Lincoln
Born Anna Marie Wooldridge, Lincoln grew up on a Michigan farm as one of 12 children, yet she was a lonely child who found solace picking out melodies on the family's piano.
But in the 1960s, Lincoln underwent a personal and professional transformation from svelte supper-club chanteuse to outspoken and politically aware jazz singer and social activist.
Lincoln did later land several small TV roles, however, and Spike Lee cast her in his 1990 jazz tribute film Mo' Better Blues.
www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/05.29.03/lincoln-0322.html   (1172 words)

  
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Abbey Lincoln is the perfect person to pay tribute to Billie Holiday.
She knew Lady Day during her last years and, like Holiday, Lincoln has always lived the words she sings and chosen to only intepret lyrics that have great meaning to her.
A dramatic performer whose interpretations are full of truth and insight, Lincoln actually began her career as a fairly lightweight supper-club singer.
www.lycos.com /info/abbey-lincoln.html   (337 words)

  
 NPR's Jazz Profiles: Abbey Lincoln   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The family had a piano, and Abbey developed an interest in music at an early age and soon started singing in school and church choirs.
As Lincoln's talent matured, she began learning to express the emotions behind the lyrics.
Abbey and Roach began collaborating quiet frequently during the end of the 1950s and throughout the 1960s.
www.npr.org /programs/jazzprofiles/archive/lincoln.html   (845 words)

  
 Abbey Lincoln: Spirited and Spiritual
Lincoln is in a sense a blithe spirit, and yet concerned about the world around her.
There are Abbey originals, as well as a song by her late brother, Robert Wooldridge, who she said was a “wonderful singer” but chose instead to become a lawyer, and later a judge.
Lincoln is aware she's one of the last of the early great singers.
www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=1100   (3016 words)

  
 Koranteng's Toli: Vibing with Abbey Lincoln
So my cousin, Tei, and I were vibing with Abbey Lincoln Saturday night - so blissed out afterwards that the both of us didn't seek out any additional after-midnight New York joints and capped the night with a couple of shwarmas topped with pepper sauce, going out on a high as it were.
It was a spur of the moment thing, really: heading to the Blue Note in the Village to hear Abbey Lincoln.
Abbey Lincoln is not that old but she was one of the great jazz voices in the fifties and that says a lot - do the math.
koranteng.blogspot.com /2004/09/vibing-with-abbey-lincoln.html   (1720 words)

  
 Abbey Lincoln: unrehearsed - Afro-American singer - Interview Essence - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
But many know Abbey Lincoln as a fierce symbol of the nationalism of the sixites and seventies, a serious political musician, one of the first stars to wear African clothing and an Afro.
But for much of the 1980's, Lincoln was in the shadows, looking inward, taking the stuff of her own life--the loneliness, pain and joy--and turning it into music.
Lincoln's voice expands and flattens notes, rises, falls, swoops, bakcs off, like an eagle in search of prey (or like a dove bearing an olive branch).
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1264/is_n12_v22/ai_12076945   (903 words)

  
 Abbey Sings Billie, Vol. 1 - Abbey Lincoln - Song Listings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Abbey Lincoln's idol has always been Billie Holiday.
Although she has never really copied Lady Day and she has long had her own style and sound, the feeling and intensity that Lincoln gives the lyrics she interprets is reminiscent of late-period Holiday.
A perfect person to pay tribute to Billie Holiday, Lincoln (on the first of two Enja CDs) is joined by the underrated tenor Harold Vick (who would pass away unexpectedly within a short time after this recording), pianist James Weidman, bassist Tarik Shaha and drummer Mark Johnson for fresh renditions of standards.
www.mp3.com /albums/109859/summary.html   (364 words)

  
 Jelly review: Abbey Lincoln
Abbey Lincoln, with her unique fullbodied voice, has released an eco-centered modern jazz album with "Wholly Earth."
Lincoln's busiest collaborator here is vibe player Bobby Hutcherson, who also plays marimba in many places.
Abbey Lincoln, vocals; Bobby Hutcherson, vibes and marimba; Marc Cary, piano; John Ormond, bass; Alvester Garnett, drums; and special guests: Nicholas Payton, trumpet and flugelhorn; James Hurt, piano; Michael Bowie, bass; Daniel Moreno, percussion; Maggie Brown, vocals;
www.jellyroll.com /2000/abbeylincoln.html   (245 words)

  
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For more than 40 years jazz vocalist Abbey Lincoln has been making the world feel better, pursuing her art with uncompromising authenticity and integrity.
A legend in her own time, a lyricist, a composer and a sublime performer, Lincoln has been setting her own standards over the entire course of her long career.
A onetime Tony nominee, Calloway's most familiar original tune -- to TV watchers, anyway -- is the theme song from the popular sitcom "The Nanny." But life's not just a cabaret at Scullers, as pianist Brad Mehldau and violinist Regina Carter will demonstrate in high-profile instrumental sets next month (Mehldau, Oct. 6; Carter, Oct. 14-15).
www.lycos.com /info/abbey-lincoln--stan-getz.html   (278 words)

  
 JR.com: ABBEY LINCOLN in Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Personnel: Abbey Lincoln (vocals); Sonny Rollins (tenor saxophone); Kenny Dorham (trumpet); Wynton Kelly (piano, bass); Paul Chambers...
Personnel: Abbey Lincoln (vocals); Julien Lourau (soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone); James Spaulding (tenor saxophone, flute); Kenny...
Personnel: Abbey Lincoln, Maggie Brown (vocals); Nicholas Payton (trumpet, flugelhorn); Bobby Hutcherson (vibraphone, marimba); Marc...
www.jr.com /xs-abbey-lincoln-in-music--ap!t;nn!650775.html   (277 words)

  
 Abbey Lincoln at Yoshi's   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Lincoln is one of the most influential female jazz singers of our time and a true original and she is one of the last great jazz singers, as well as one of the music's most gifted songwriters.
She possesses a pure, passionate, honest style that's expressive of many moods, injecting power, passion, romance and love into her performances.
Lincoln delivers a lyric with utmost originality and supreme authority of expression.
www.yoshis.com /artist/abbey_lincoln   (142 words)

  
 Abbey Lincoln - AOL Music
"I don't know what's before us," says jazz vocalist extraordinaire Abbey Lincoln when reflecting on her sumptuous, and at times poignant new Verve CD Over...
Abbey Lincoln's Affair: A Story of a Girl in Love - 1956 - Capitol; That's Him - 1957 - Riverside; It's Magic - 1958 - Riverside; Abbey Is Blue - 1959 -...
Download, listen and watch Abbey Lincoln music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and more on AOL Music.
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 Great Women Singers of the 20th Century - Abbey Lincoln
Wife of jazz legend Max Roach and an outstanding singer in her own right, Abbey Lincoln began her musical career in the late 1950s.
Her debut album--ABBEY'S LINCOLN AFFAIR--was followed by a string of recorded releases, but it's in a live setting that she really excels.
This concert is from 1991, and was part of a comeback staged by Lincoln after her lengthy hiatus from the business in the 1980s.
www.rottentomatoes.com /m/great_women_singers_of_the_20th_century_abbey_lincoln   (448 words)

  
 Abbey Lincoln - You Gotta Pay the Band
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 National Initiatives: NEA Jazz Masters on Tour - Abbey Lincoln
National Initiatives: NEA Jazz Masters on Tour - Abbey Lincoln
Lincoln was named an NEA Jazz Master in 2003.
Copies can be ordered free of charge through our Publications section.
www.nea.gov /national/jazz/artists_tour/lincoln.html   (386 words)

  
 Abbey Lincoln   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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