1991: You Gotta Pay the Band (Gitanes/Verve) with Stan Getz, Hank Jones, Charlie Haden, Marc Johnson, Maxine Roach.1990: The World Is Falling Down (Polydor (F)/ Verve) with Jackie McLean, Clark Terry a.o.1 & 2 (Enja) with Harold Vick (tenor), J. 1983: Talking to the Sun ( Enja) with Steve Coleman, James Weidman (piano), Mark Johnson (drums), Jerry Gonzalez (perc) a.o.1980: Painted Lady (recorded live in Paris, Marge (F), US-release on Inner City as Golden Lady) featuring Archie Shepp.
COWBOY JERRY HAYNES MUSITION MOVIE
In the 1990 Spike Lee movie Mo' Better Blues, Abbey Lincoln played the young Bleek's mother, Lillian.
She later appeared in Mission: Impossible (1971), the telemovie Short Walk to Daylight (1972), Marcus Welby, M.D.
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In March 1969 for WGBH-TV Boston, in one of a 10-episode series of individual dramas written, produced and performed by blacks, "On Being Black," was her work in Alice Childress's Wine in the Wilderness. Television appearances began in 1968 with The Name of the Game. In 1968 she also co-starred with Sidney Poitier and Beau Bridges in For Love of Ivy, and received a 1969 Golden Globe nomination for her appearance in the film. With Ivan Dixon, she co-starred in Nothing But a Man (1964), an independent film written and directed by Michael Roemer. In 1956 Lincoln appeared in The Girl Can't Help It, for which she wore a dress that had been worn by Marilyn Monroe in Gentleman Prefer Blondes (1953), and interpreted the theme song, working with Benny Carter. She explored more philosophical themes during the later years of her songwriting career and remained professionally active until well into her seventies. In addition to her musical career, she ventured into acting as well and appeared in movies such as The Girl Can't Help It and Gentleman Prefer Blondes. Her lyrics often reflected the ideals of the civil rights movement and helped in generating passion for the cause in the minds of her listeners. In 2003, Lincoln received a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Award. Johnson, Stanley Turrentine, Babatunde Olatunji and The Staple Singers, among others. Devil's Got Your Tongue (1992) featured Rodney Kendrick, Grady Tate, Yoron Israel, J. These albums are highly regarded and represent a crowning achievement in Lincoln's career. During the 1990s and until her death, however, she fulfilled a 10-album contract with Verve Records. Her song "For All We Know" is featured in the 1989 film Drugstore Cowboy. ĭuring the 1980s, Lincoln's creative output was smaller and she released only a few albums during that decade. After a tour of Africa in the mid-1970s, she adopted the name Aminata Moseka. In 1960 she sang on Max Roach's landmark civil rights-themed recording, We Insist! Lincoln's lyrics were often connected to the civil rights movement in America.
Her debut album, Abbey Lincoln's Affair – A Story of a Girl in Love, was followed by a series of albums for Riverside Records. She often visited the Blue Note jazz club in New York City. Musicianīorn in Chicago but raised in Calvin Center, Cass County, Michigan, Lincoln was one of many singers influenced by Billie Holiday. Lincoln made a career not only out of delivering deeply felt presentations of standards but writing and singing her own material as well. She was a civil rights advocate and activist from the 1960s on. Anna Marie Wooldridge (Aug– August 14, 2010), known by her stage name Abbey Lincoln, was an African-American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress, who wrote and performed her own compositions.
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