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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

Abbey Lincoln virtually defined jazz singing. Her commanding voice and imaginative songwriting set her apart while confirming her status as a worthy successor to her major influence, Billie Holiday.

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, the acclaimed jazz singer, songwriter and civil rights activist, died Saturday at the age of 80. Maggie Brown, a singer, educator and family friend of Ms. Lincoln, remembers 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.

The late Abbey Lincoln was known as a jazz vocalist who has been compared to Billie Holiday, and was also an actress and activist. According to the New York Times, she was living in Harlem in 1962 ...

Lincoln s first effort for what is now the Verve Music Group, The World Is Falling Down (1990), was a commercial and critical success. Eight more albums followed in a similar vein, each produced by ...

Abbey Lincoln, a jazz singer and songwriter known for her phrasing, emotion and uncompromising style, died Saturday in New York at age 80. She had been declining in health for the past year. Her death ...