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Abbey Lincoln - RIP


Chuck Nessa

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I still think that "Nothing but a Man," the 1964 film she starred in with Ivan Dixon, is one of the best black films made in the U.S.

I also wish they had written an intelligent script and cast Abbey as Billie Holliday, instead of the Ross woman.

Floating around somewhere, not in any of my closets, is a 1-hour TV interview I did with Abbey some 30 years ago.

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"Bird alone, flying high

Flying through a clouded sky

Sending mournful soulful sounds

Soaring over troubled grounds"

You Gotta Pay the Band (Verve, 1991) was my point of entry with Abbey. First checked it out from the Evanston Public Library--many an evening spent listening to this after a grinding grad school day.

Thanks Abbey. Keep soaring.

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Beautiful voice, and a great singer. Those two qualities don't often inhabit the same person, but they did with Abbey. I loved her two '70's albums, People In Me and Painted Lady. Saw her at the Beacon Theatre in NYC around that time (1979?). "I know why the caged bird sings...birds were meant to fly, birds were meant to sing." RIP.

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