[aragon63]

   



    Jazz Singer Abbey Lincoln Dead at Age 80

[mjosef]

Sad to hear...she has not been in the best of health the past year.
I like what she said here...

at a certain point in her career, she rejected performing songs which demeaned her. "I know that a song is a prayer, because you say — it's something that I speak over and over, and it's with music," she said. "And it's amplified, and it goes into peoples' ears. And it'll manifest in my life, one way or another. So ... I am particular about the messages that come from me."

RIP.

[sturgus]

Very sad day. She was on of my favorite singers. I think I will drink a toast and play some Abbey Is Blue.
Sturgus

[Bob in St. Louis]

I had the Stevie Ray Vaughan cranked on eleven until I read this thread. 

Now it's ......"you gotta pay the band"
Hope the wife doesn't see the tears. 

[jimdgoulding]

They've been playing some tunes of hers with husband Max Roach on the PBS FM affiliate down here and, man, I had forgotten how powerfully she could write.

[ricmon]

I do have a fond memory of her performing at Blues Alley.  And what a looker in her day........drove Max Roach crazy 

[mjosef]

WKCR 89.9FM had her on all evening...interviews, her music...chit-chatting...very nice.