| Abbey Is Blue | ||||
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| Released | 1959 | |||
| Recorded | Spring and Fall, 1959 New York City | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 39:19 | |||
| Label | Riverside RLP 12-308 | |||
| Producer | Bill Grauer and Orrin Keepnews | |||
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Abbey Is Blue is the fourth album by American jazz vocalist Abbey Lincoln featuring tracks recorded in 1959 for the Riverside label. [1]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| All About Jazz |   [2] |
| AllMusic | [3] |
| DownBeat | [4] |
| New York Age |  [5] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [6] |
| PopMatters |   [7] |
| The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | [8] |
| The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz | [9] |
AllMusic awarded the album 4½ stars, with the review by Scott Yanow stating: "Abbey Lincoln is quite emotional and distinctive during a particularly strong set... very memorable". [3] All About Jazz also gave the album 4½ stars, with David Rickert calling it "a breakthrough performance in jazz singing", and observing: "With the civil rights movement looming over the horizon, no longer did singers need to stick with standards and Tin Pan Alley tunes and could truly sing about subjects that mattered to them. Lincoln picked up Billie Holiday's skill at inhabiting the lyrics of a song and projecting its emotional content outward, and these songs, all of which deal with sorrow, are stark and harrowing accounts of loss and injustice." [2] Chris Ingalls of PopMatters commented: "The choice of compositions is consistently interesting... and stands apart from so much of the music released during this time... Lincoln was intent on infusing the album with elements of civil rights issues so important to her then and throughout the rest of her life, and it doesn't hurt that her vocals on these standards absolutely soar with emotion and deft technique." [7]
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