Abbey Is Blue, the Glossary
Abbey Is Blue is the fourth album by American jazz vocalist Abbey Lincoln featuring tracks recorded in 1959 for the Riverside label.[1]
Table of Contents
45 relations: Abbey Lincoln, Afro Blue, All About Jazz, AllMusic, Billie Holiday, Cedar Walton, Come Sunday, DownBeat, Duke Ellington, It's Magic (Abbey Lincoln album), Jazz, Joe Young (lyricist), Julian Priester, Kenny Dorham, Kurt Weill, Langston Hughes, Les Spann, Lost in the Stars, Max Roach, Maxwell Anderson, Mongo Santamaría, Murray Grand, Orrin Keepnews, Oscar Brown, Oscar Hammerstein II, Penguin Books, Philly Joe Jones, PopMatters, Riverside Records, Sam Jones (musician), Sam M. Lewis, Scott Yanow, Sigmund Romberg, Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise, Stanley Turrentine, Straight Ahead (Abbey Lincoln album), Street Scene (opera), Ted Fio Rito, The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, The New York Age, The Penguin Guide to Jazz, The Rolling Stone Album Guide, Tin Pan Alley, Tommy Turrentine, Wynton Kelly.
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Abbey Lincoln
Anna Marie Wooldridge (August 6, 1930 – August 14, 2010), known professionally as Abbey Lincoln, was an American jazz vocalist.
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Afro Blue
"Afro Blue" is a jazz standard composed by Mongo Santamaría.
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All About Jazz
All About Jazz is a website established by Michael Ricci in 1995.
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AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.
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Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz and swing music singer.
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Cedar Walton
Cedar Anthony Walton Jr. (January 17, 1934 – August 19, 2013) was an American hard bop jazz pianist.
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Come Sunday
"Come Sunday" is a piece by Duke Ellington, which became a jazz standard.
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DownBeat
(styled in all caps) is an American music magazine devoted to "jazz, blues and beyond", the last word indicating its expansion beyond the jazz realm which it covered exclusively in previous years.
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Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1923 through the rest of his life.
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It's Magic (Abbey Lincoln album)
It's Magic is the third album by American jazz vocalist Abbey Lincoln featuring tracks recorded in 1958 for the Riverside label. Abbey Is Blue and It's Magic (Abbey Lincoln album) are Abbey Lincoln albums, albums produced by Orrin Keepnews and Riverside Records albums.
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Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.
Joe Young (lyricist)
Joe Young (July 4, 1889 – April 21, 1939) was an American lyricist, born in New York.
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Julian Priester
Julian Priester (born June 29, 1935) is an American jazz trombonist and occasional euphoniumist.
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Kenny Dorham
McKinley Howard "Kenny" Dorham (August 30, 1924 – December 5, 1972) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and occasional singer.
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Kurt Weill
Kurt Julian Weill (March 2, 1900April 3, 1950) was a German-born American composer active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States.
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Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri.
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Les Spann
Leslie Spann Jr. (May 23, 1932 – January 24, 1989) was an American jazz guitarist and flautist.
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Lost in the Stars
Lost in the Stars is a musical with book and lyrics by Maxwell Anderson and music by Kurt Weill, based on the novel Cry, the Beloved Country (1948) by Alan Paton.
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Max Roach
Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz drummer and composer.
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Maxwell Anderson
James Maxwell Anderson (December 15, 1888 – February 28, 1959) was an American playwright, author, poet, journalist, and lyricist.
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Mongo Santamaría
Ramón "Mongo" Santamaría Rodríguez (April 7, 1917 – February 1, 2003) was a Cuban percussionist and bandleader who spent most of his career in the United States.
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Murray Grand
Murray Grand (August 27, 1919 – March 7, 2007) was an American singer, songwriter, lyricist, and pianist best known for the song "Guess Who I Saw Today".
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Orrin Keepnews
Orrin Keepnews (March 2, 1923 – March 1, 2015) was an American jazz writer and record producer known for founding Riverside Records and Milestone Records, for freelance work, and for his work at other labels.
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Oscar Brown
Oscar Brown Jr. (October 10, 1926May 29, 2005) was an American singer, songwriter, playwright, poet, civil rights activist, and actor.
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Oscar Hammerstein II
Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II (July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960) was an American lyricist, librettist, theatrical producer, and (usually uncredited) director in musical theater for nearly 40 years.
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Penguin Books
Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house.
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Philly Joe Jones
Joseph Rudolph "Philly Joe" Jones (July 15, 1923 – August 30, 1985) was an American jazz drummer.
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PopMatters
PopMatters is an international online magazine of cultural criticism that covers aspects of popular culture.
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Riverside Records
Riverside Records was an American jazz record company and label. Abbey Is Blue and Riverside Records are Riverside Records albums.
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Sam Jones (musician)
Samuel Jones (November 12, 1924 – December 15, 1981) was an American jazz double bassist, cellist, and composer.
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Sam M. Lewis
Sam M. Lewis (born Samuel M. Levine; October 25, 1885 – November 22, 1959) was an American singer and lyricist.
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Scott Yanow
Scott Yanow (born October 4, 1954) is an American jazz reviewer, historian, and author.
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Sigmund Romberg
Sigmund Romberg (July 29, 1887 – November 9, 1951) was a Hungarian-born American composer.
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Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise
"Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise" is a song with music by Sigmund Romberg and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II from the 1928 operetta The New Moon.
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Stanley Turrentine
Stanley William Turrentine (April 5, 1934 – September 12, 2000) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and record producer.
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Straight Ahead (Abbey Lincoln album)
Straight Ahead is an album by American jazz vocalist Abbey Lincoln featuring performances recorded in 1961 for the Candid label. Abbey Is Blue and Straight Ahead (Abbey Lincoln album) are Abbey Lincoln albums.
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Street Scene (opera)
Street Scene is an American opera by Kurt Weill (music), Langston Hughes (lyrics), and Elmer Rice (book).
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Ted Fio Rito
Theodore Salvatore Fiorito (December 20, 1900 – July 22, 1971),DeLong, Thomas A. (1996).
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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music is an encyclopedia created in 1989 by Colin Larkin.
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The New York Age
The New York Age was an American weekly newspaper established in 1887 in New York City.
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The Penguin Guide to Jazz
The Penguin Guide to Jazz is a reference work containing an encyclopedic directory of jazz recordings on CD which were (at the time of publication) currently available in Europe or the United States.
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The Rolling Stone Album Guide
The Rolling Stone Album Guide, previously known as The Rolling Stone Record Guide, is a book that contains professional music reviews written and edited by staff members from Rolling Stone magazine.
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Tin Pan Alley
Tin Pan Alley was a collection of music publishers and songwriters in New York City that dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Tommy Turrentine
Thomas Walter Turrentine, Jr. (April 22, 1928 – May 13, 1997) was a swing and hard bop trumpeter and composer who was active between the 1940s and the 1960s.
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Wynton Kelly
Wynton Charles Kelly (December 2, 1931 – April 12, 1971) was an American jazz pianist and composer.
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See also
Abbey Lincoln albums
- A Turtle's Dream
- Abbey Is Blue
- Abbey Lincoln's Affair
- Abbey Sings Abbey
- Devil's Got Your Tongue
- It's Magic (Abbey Lincoln album)
- It's Me (album)
- Over the Years (Abbey Lincoln album)
- People in Me
- Straight Ahead (Abbey Lincoln album)
- That's Him!
- Who Used to Dance
- Wholly Earth
- You Gotta Pay the Band