Abbey Lincoln - Straight Ahead - Remastered180gm Tip on Jacket Remastered by Bernie Grundman. Straight Ahead is one of Abbey Lincoln's greatest and most important recordings. A testament to her credibility and talents, the section on this album includes saxophone giant Colman Hawkins, the great Eric Dolphy on flute alto, trumpeter Booker Little, pianist Mal Waldron and the iconic drummer Max Roach. The LP includes extraordinary liner notes written by Nat Hentoff himself, giving a context and

she studied singing at the Munich Academy for Music and Theater

The recent work fits in seamlessly as the successor of their debut album

since her first appearance

bound by the deeply held bond shared by the players - a bond that is audibly apparent across the album's eight tracks

Encke's pieces open up an entirely different world of sound

Susan Weinert

Il pirata and (when he was just 16 years old) I Capuleti e i Montecchi: an astonishingly vivid and precocious piece of work

Not only was Bobby Vee a genuine teen idol during the early 1960s with a string of lighthearted smashes to his credit

but none have equaled it's strange sublimity

Bill Evans and McCoy Tyner

Spendy perhaps

electric piano and Mellotron by bandleader Lyman Woodard alongside guitar and bass by Ron English