Afro Blue (Abbey Lincoln)

Abbey Lincoln · 1959 · Thème de Mongo Santamaría avec paroles d'Oscar Brown, avec Max Roach

Context

Opening track of Abbey Is Blue, Lincoln's fourth album, recorded in 1959 for Riverside. She sings the theme by Mongo Santamaría with lyrics by Oscar Brown, with Max Roach on drums and the Turrentine brothers.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese, Hard bop. Among the origins and influences of Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese: Classic blues (women singers), Swing, big bands, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).

By the same artist

• Lonely House (1959)
• Brother, Where Are You? (1959)
• Lost in the Stars (Abbey Lincoln) (1959)
• Triptych: Prayer/Protest/Peace (1960)
• Driva Man (1961)
• The World Is Falling Down (1990)

Sources

• EN: Abbey Is Blue

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