Playlist
DISC 1
Title Do Nothing Til You Hear from me
Artist Abbey Lincoln
Composer Ellington / Russell
Album Abbey Lincoln's Affair: A Story of a Girl in Love
Label Capitol / Blue Note
Number CDP 811992 Track 15
Personnel: Rec July 1956, big band (players unknown) directed and arranger by Benny Carter
DISC 2
Title I am in love
Artist Abbey Lincoln
Composer Cole Porter
Album It's Magic
Label Riverside
Number OJCCD 205-2 Track 1
Personnel Sahib Shihab (f, bar), Benny Golson (ts), Art Farmer (t), Curtis Fuller (tb), Wynton Kelly (p), Sam Jones (b), Philly Joe Jones (d), Abbey Lincoln (v) August 15, 1958
DISC 3
Title Long as you're Living
Artist Abbey Lincoln
Composer Brown / Priester / Turrentine
Album Abbey Is Blue
Label Riverside
Number OJCCD 069-2 Track 10
Personnel Tommy Turrentine(t), Julian Priester (tb), Stanley Turrentine, ts; Bobby Boswell, b; Max Roach d. Abbey Lincoln (v) Spring and Fall 1959
DISC 4
Title Driva Man
Artist Max Roach
Composer Oscar Brown Jr / Roach
Album WeInsist: Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite
Label Candid
Number 79002 Track 1
Personnel Walter Benton, Coleman Hawkins (ts), Booker Little (t), Julian Priester (tb), James Schenk (b), Max Roach (d), Abbey Lincoln (v) August 31, 1960
DISC 5
Title Straight Ahead
Artist Abbey Lincoln
Composer Lincoln, Baker, Waldron
Album Straight Ahead
Label Candid
Number 79015 Track 1
Personnel Eric Dolphy (pic, f, bcl, as), Walter Benton, Coleman Hawkins (ts), Booker Little (t), Julian Priester (tb), Mal Waldron (p), Art Davis (b), Max Roach (d), Roger 'Montego Joe' Sanders, Robert Whitley (cga), Abbey Lincoln (v)
DISC 6
Title In The Red
Artist Abbey Lincoln
Composer Lincoln, Bayen, Roach arr. Little
Album Straight Ahead
Label Candid
Number 79015 Track 3
Personnel: as for Straight Ahead
DISC 7
Title Caged Bird
Artist Abbey Lincoln
Composer Lincoln
Album Wholly Earth
Label Verve
Number 559 538-2 Track 9
Personnel: Bobby Hutcherson, vib; James Hurt, p; Michael Bowie, b; Alvester Garnett, d; Daniel Moreno, perc; Abbey Lincoln, Maggi Brown, voc. June 1998.
DISC 8
Title A Waltz For Grace
Artist Steve Williamson
Composer Williamson / Lincoln
Album A Waltz for Grace
Label Verve
Number 843 088 Track 4
Personnel Steve Williamson (ts), David Gilmore (g), Julian Joseph (p), Lonnie Plaxico (b), Mark Mondesir (d), Abbey Lincoln (v) 1990
DISC 9
Title Brother Can You Spare a Dime
Artist Abbey Lincoln
Composer Harburg, Gorney
Album You Gotta Pay The Band
Label Verve
Number 511 110-2 Track 4
Personnel Stan Getz, ts; Hank Jones, p; Charlie Haden b; Mark Johnson, d. Feb 1991 NYC.
DISC 10
Title A Child Is Born
Artist Abbey Lincoln
Composer Wilder / Jones
Album Devil's Got Your Tongue
Label Verve
Number 513574-2 Track 4
Personnel Abbey Lincoln, voc; J J John son, tb; Rodney Kendrick, p; Marcus McLaurine, b; Grady Tate, d. Feb 1992
DISC 11
Title Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year
Artist Abbey Lincoln
Composer Loesser
Album Devil's Got Your Tongue
Label Verve
Number 513574-2 Track 10
Personnel: as above plus Stanley Turrentine, ts.
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