This second volume of Lincoln performing live at the famed Keystone Korner jazz club in San Francisco puts the focus on her own compositions backed by the same inspired trio of instrumentalists from volume one.As her great contemporaries among the classic female jazz vocalists fell away Lincoln steadfastly maintained her tart, deftly timed Billie Holiday-like inflections, and her commitment to songs that dug deeper into life's meanings than the usual lost-love exhalations. If Abbey Lincoln was overwhelmed by the responsibility of being proclaimed "the last of the jazz singers", she never let it show.
This second volume of Lincoln performing live at the famed Keystone Korner jazz club in San Francisco puts the focus on her own compositions backed by the same inspired trio of instrumentalists from volume one.As her great contemporaries among the classic female jazz vocalists fell away Lincoln steadfastly maintained her tart, deftly timed Billie Holiday-like inflections, and her commitment to songs that dug deeper into life's meanings than the usual lost-love exhalations. If Abbey Lincoln was overwhelmed by the responsibility of being proclaimed "the last of the jazz singers", she never let it show.