Music CD

Digitally remastered and expanded edition of this album from the Jazz great. Contains the complete original album Straight Ahead, on which she shares the bill with such stars as Eric Dolphy, Coleman Hawkins, Booker Little, Mal Waldron, and Max Roach. An important musical work as well as an eloquent political statement, this now classic album didn't receive unanimous approval in its day, as Ira Gitler made clear in his Down Beat review, where he accused the singer of being a 'professional Negro'. The only known alternate take from the session, as well as all existing tunes featuring Lincoln from two other dates from the same period have been added here as a bonus. American Jazz Classics.

LINCOLN ABBEY WHOLLY EARTH

Digitally remastered two-fer containing a pair of complete early albums from the Jazz great: Abbey Is Blue and It's Magic. Featuring important jazzmen like Kenny Dorham, Art Farmer, Curtis Fuller, Benny Golson, Stanley Turrentine, Les Spann, Wynton Kelly, Cedar Walton, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones, and Lincoln's future husband, the great Max Roach. As a bonus, we have added a rare live version of 'Out Of The Past', which appears on CD here for the first time ever. Poll Winner. 2010.