85th birthday of Abbey Lincoln

(Born 6 August 1930, Chicago, US)

Acclaimed lyricist, actress, freedom quest exemplar, plays central role in Max Roach Decatet’s classic album, We Insist!: Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite (1960)

(Max Roach Quintet, featuring Abbey Lincoln, “All Africa” [personnel: Roach, drums; Lincoln, vocals; Clifford Jordan, tenor saxophone; Coleridge Perkinson, piano; Eddie Khan, bass; recorded: Belgian television, January{?}1964])

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