Abbey Lincoln: Abbey Is Blue/It's Magic | CD review

(Poll Winners)Abbey Lincoln has inspired many singers, Cassandra Wilson being perhaps the best known. This two-disc set comprises early sessions for the Riverside label in 1958 and 59, with Miles Davis's Philly Joe Jones and Lincoln's future husband Max Roach on drums, and star soloists such as trumpeter Kenny Dorham, pianists Wynton Kelly and Cedar Walton, and saxophonists Benny Golson and Stanley Turrentine. Lincoln is an eloquent singer – not grandiose like Sarah Vaughan, or improvisational...

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