Jazz singer Abbey Lincoln, whose six-decade career included acting and composing, and who participated in the civil rights movement, died in New York on Saturday at age 80. By Chris Michaud, Reuters, ...

Going to a jazz show is usually about hearing this piano player or that saxophonist, but attending a performance by vocalist Abbey Lincoln was about performing a pilgrimage: It was about the ...

NEA Jazz Master, Abbey Lincoln (August 6, 1930—August 14, 2010), was a towering figure of musical expression, feminism, and Afrocentrism who led a colorful life—cover girl, actress, model, singer and ...

In the latest installment of the series Tell Me More About Women's History, NPR's Felix Contreras salutes vocalist Abbey Lincoln. And finally, we end today's program with our segment Tell Me More ...

This broadcast includes new releases from Ragan Whiteside, Nicole Zuraitis, Lonnie Plaxico and Tierney Sutton, with birthday shoutouts to Louis Armstrong, Regina Carter, Abbey Lincoln, Dorothy Ashby, ...

Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Abbey Lincoln, the gifted jazz vocalist, songwriter and actress who in ...

The jazz icon, composer, lyricist and performer died last year at age 80. On the eve of a tribute performance, Grammy-winning vocalists Dee Dee... Abbey Lincoln, Remembered By Her Proteges Jazz icon, ...

Abbey Lincoln is jazz' golden lady, the music's marvelous magical matriarch whose impressive 50 year career has taken her from smooth supper club singer and movie star to distinctive jazz vocalist, ...

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We're continuing our "Summer of Soul" series with archival interviews with singer Abbey Lincoln and drummer Max Roach. Both were featured in the Questlove documentary about the 1969 Harlem Cultural ...

Vocalist and actress Abbey Lincoln, who morphed from torch singer to uncompromising musical-political firebrand at the height of the civil rights movement, died Saturday in New York. She was 80.