Abbey Is Blue

Abbey Is Blue
Studio album by Abbey Lincoln
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
Abbey Lincoln chronology
It's Magic (1958) Abbey Is Blue (1959) We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite (1960)

Abbey Is Blue is the fourth album by American jazz vocalist Abbey Lincoln featuring tracks recorded in 1959 for the Riverside label.^[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
New York Age	[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz	(positive) [4]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[5]

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".^[2]

Track listing

1. "Afro Blue" (Mongo Santamaría) - 3:20
2. "Lonely House" (Langston Hughes, Kurt Weill) - 3:40
3. "Let Up" (Abbey Lincoln) - 5:32
4. "Thursday's Child" (Elisse Boyd, Murray Grand) - 3:31
5. "Brother, Where Are You?" (Oscar Brown) - 3:10
6. "Laugh, Clown, Laugh" (Ted Fio Rito, Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young) - 5:24
7. "Come Sunday" (Duke Ellington) - 5:13
8. "Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Sigmund Romberg) - 2:46
9. "Lost in the Stars" (Maxwell Anderson, Kurt Weill) - 4:11
10. "Long as You're Living" (Oscar Brown, Julian Priester, Tommy Turrentine) - 2:33

Personnel

• Abbey Lincoln - vocals
• Kenny Dorham (tracks 2, 4 & 7-9), Tommy Turrentine (tracks 1, 3, 6 & 10) - trumpet
• Julian Priester - trombone (tracks 1, 3, 6 & 10)
• Stanley Turrentine - tenor saxophone (tracks 1, 3, 6 & 10)
• Les Spann - guitar (tracks 2, 4 & 7-9), flute (track 5)
• Wynton Kelly (tracks 2, 4, 5), Cedar Walton (tracks 3 & 6), Phil Wright (tracks 7-9) - piano
• Bobby Boswell (tracks 1, 3, 6 & 10), Sam Jones (tracks 2, 4, 5 & 7-9) - bass
• Philly Joe Jones (tracks: 2, 4, 5 & 7-9), Max Roach (tracks: 1, 3, 6 & 10) - drums

References

1. Riverside Records discography accessed September 13, 2012
2. Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed September 13, 2012
3. Stone, Louise Davis (13 February 1960). "The Jazz Bit". New York Age. p. 12. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
4. Morton, Brian; Cook, Richard (2011). The Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in the 1000 Best Albums. London: Penguin. ISBN 9780141959009. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
5. Swenson, J. (Editor) (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 126. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.