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Anna Marie Wooldridge (August 6, 1930 – August 14, 2010), [1] known professionally as Abbey Lincoln, was an American jazz vocalist and songwriter. She was a civil rights activist beginning in the 1960s. [2] [3] Lincoln made a career out of delivering deeply felt presentations of standards, as well as writing and singing her own material.
Abbey Sings Abbey is an album by jazz vocalist Abbey Lincoln. It was recorded during September and November, 2006, at Avatar Studios in New York City; these dates would prove to be Lincoln's final recording sessions prior to her death in 2010.
Who Used to Dance is an album by jazz vocalist Abbey Lincoln.It was recorded during April and May, 1996, at Clinton Recording Studios in New York City, and was released in 1997 by Verve Records and Gitanes Jazz Productions.
(subtitled Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite), with vocals by his then-wife Abbey Lincoln and lyrics by Oscar Brown Jr., after being invited to contribute to commemorations of the hundredth anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. In 1962, he recorded the album Money Jungle, a collaboration with Mingus and Duke Ellington. This is ...
On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was shot by John Wilkes Booth while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Shot in the head as he watched the play, [2] Lincoln died of his wounds the following day at 7:22 am in the Petersen House opposite the theater. [3]
He was fired three years after Lincoln's death when he was found sleeping on the job. Speaking of little known facts about the president's security, the night before he left for Ford's Theater ...
A Turtle's Dream was nominated for Best Jazz Vocal Performance at the 38th Annual Grammy Awards. [9]Stephen Holden of The New York Times awarded the album first place in his annual adult-pop consumer guide, calling it "profoundly beautiful," and stating that Lincoln "suggests what Billie Holiday might have become had she overcome her personal demons and survived into her 60's.
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