Abbey Lincoln

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Esther Kaiser Celebrates Abbey Lincoln

ByMatthias Kirsch 01/13/2015

To record the music of Abbey Lincoln is a very brave undertaking and not many musicians have taken on the dramatic, often political statements and witty lyricism of this timeless artist. In 2013, her former pianist Marc Cary released a beautiful solo homage called “For The Love Of Abbey”. And now comes German singer Esther…

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Rodney Kendrick Paints Life On New Record

ByMatthias Kirsch 12/03/201412/03/2014

For many years, Rodney Kendrick was the musical director and pianist for Abbey Lincoln. The 54 year old pianist and keyboarder wanted to express, as he states in the liner notes of his new trio album “The Colors Of Rhythm” (Impulse), “the sweet and the sour, the dark and the light, the bad and the…