Music is the Magic

RIP Abbey Lincoln. Belatedly, here are some links -- and this video, which I had never seen before, from Night Music. (I didn’t want to post clips from the Freedom Now Suite, which are awesome but from a time before Lincoln herself had reached her fearsome maturity as an artist. No, I don’t think the presence of David Sanborn above is a sacrilege.)

• NY Times obituary
• NPR Weekend Edition remembrance
• NPR Jazz Profiles audio archive
• Do the Math on “the middle period”
• Rifftides with two more clips
• The Guardian obituary
  

In addition to the Times obituary above, I wrote a profile of Abbey Lincoln in 2007, before I started this blog. She was a tough but gracious interview, and already not in the best of health. There’s an audio accompaniment to that link, including some of our conversation.

Please feel free to share tributes and more links in the comments.