Today is Abbey Lincoln's birthday. She passed in 2010, but I only learned about her music in the last few years. Lincoln's certainly one of the most distinctive and talented jazz vocalists in the genre's history, and deserves to be mentioned up there with Billie, Ella, Sarah, and Dinah. She was even in my favorite Spike Lee film, Mo' Betta Blues. Her take on "Lonely House" is definitive.
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