Abbey Sings Abbey
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In her oblique, singular trajectory across the multiple currents and trends that have fashioned the incredibly rich and complex landscape of contemporary Afro-American music these past fifty years, Abbey Lincoln has gradually established herself in everyone's eye as the great female voice of the post-free era.
On this new album she performs exclusively personal songs, carefully chosen from the nine recordings she made for Verve over the last fifteen years. With a consummate sense of theatre, alternating slow, crepuscular ballads - almost static in their imperceptible unfolding - and songs of timeless sophistication with melodies that are more archaistic, at the frontiers of country-music and folk, she, using little, almost secret Impressionist touches, recapitulates the skillfully "natural" art of phrasing with all its intimate deployments, breaks and suspensions, revealing the magic spells of a rift that can't be confessed while plucking constantly at the strings of emotion with discretion and restraint and distilling, in its slightest inflexions, melancholy that is literally overwhelming.
Tracks
| 1 | Blue Monk |
| 2 | Throw It Away |
| 3 | And It's Supposed To Be Love |
| 4 | Should've Been |
| 5 | The World Is Falling Down |
| 6 | Bird Alone |
| 7 | Down Here Below |
| 8 | The Music Is the Magic |
| 9 | Learning How To Listen |
| 10 | The Merry Dancer |
| 11 | Love Has Gone Away |
| 12 | Being Me |
