Celebrating Abbey Lincoln, Universal Woman

Show description for Sunday 8/8/2010 @ 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

This week on New Day Jazz, we celebrate the life and legacy of Abbey Lincoln. Poet, songwriter and a leading force in the Black Consciousness Movement, Ms. Lincoln celebrated her 80th birthday this past week, August 6th.
Also, as part of our continuing focus on the works of James Baldwin, we will listen in on an interview, conducted by Studs Terkel, from 1961, on the occasion of the publication of the essay collection, Nobody Knows My Name.

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	Artist	Song	Album	Label
	Sterling Brown (Read by James Earl Jones & Moses Gunn)	Ol' Lem	A Hand Is On The Gate	Verve - Folkways
	Max Roach featuring Abbey Lincoln	Driva' Man	Freedom Now Suite	Candid
	Robert Hayden (read by Gloria Foster, Jones & Gunn)	Runagate, Runagate	A Hand Is On The Gate	Verve - Folkways
	Max Roach featuring Abbey Lincoln	Freedom Day	Freedom Now Suite	Candid
	Margaret Walker (read by Foster)	We Have Been Believers	A Hand Is On The Gate	Verve - Folkways
	Max Roach featuring Abbey Lincoln	Tryptich: Prayer/Protest/Peace	Freedom Now Suite	Candid
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	Abbey Lincoln	You And Me Love	People in Me	Inner City
	Abbey Lincoln	Natas (Playmate)	People in Me	Inner City
	Abbey Lincoln	Dorian (The Man With The Magic)	People in Me	Inner City
	Abbey Lincoln	Africa	People in Me	Inner City
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	James Baldwin Interviewed By Studs Terkel
	Abbey Lincoln featuring Archie Shepp	Throw It Away	Painted Lady	Blue Marge
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	Abbey Lincoln	Retribution	Straight Ahead	Candid
	Jean Toomer (read by Arna Bontemps)	Song of the Sun	Anthology of Negro Poets in the U.S.A. - 200 Years	Folkways
	Max Roach featurign Abbey Lincoln	Garvey's Ghost	Percussion Bitter Sweet	Impulse
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	Abbey Lincoln	The Music Is The Magic	Devil's Got Your Tongue	Verve France

Abbey Lincoln Sings Oscar Brown Jr.'s LONG AS YOU'RE LIVING

These beautiful, vital, and necessary, lyrics by Oscar Brown Jr., were composed in collaboration with Abbey Lincoln, Tommy Turrentine and Julian Priester. Presented here, on New Day, is the original recording, which appears as the concluding track of side B on the masterpiece, Abbey Is Blue, under the leadership of Abbey Lincoln, for Orrin Keepnews Riverside record label.

As I fell asleep last night, Grace asked Justice, why New Day? When I arose, this morning, it was this song which carried me from dreaming into the now. Thank you, Grace. You always know the right questions to ask!


Date: ca. November 1959
Location: Reeves Sound Studios, New York City
Label: Riverside

Abbey Lincoln (ldr), Stanley Turrentine (ts), Tommy Turrentine (t), Julian Priester (tb), Cedar Walton (p), Bobby Boswell (b), Max Roach (d), Abbey Lincoln (v)