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, ...

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, ...

An intriguing byproduct of the current vinyl renaissance, Record Store Day has become a proving ground for labels looking to balance archival reverence with commercial opportunity. Craft Recordings ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jazz singer Abbey Lincoln, whose six-decade career included acting and composing, and who participated in the U.S. civil rights movement, died in New York on Saturday at age 80, ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Abbey Lincoln was told, again and again, who to be, by Hollywood promoters 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 ...

Identifying a jazz singer as the heir to Billie Holiday is almost always an act of hyperbole. In Abbey Lincoln’s case, doing so is merely imprecise. Born of the same straight-ahead approach as Holiday ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - 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, The ...

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.