Over The Years: Vinyl 2LP 60s Taxi's Here

Taxi's Here

**Brahms: Intermezzo

which eats away at you especially because I had so much to say lyrically I just hadn’t learnt how to as yet

He draws on deep musical understanding

Over The Years: Vinyl 2LP 60s Taxi's HereRecorded in 2000, mostly in New York, Over the Years is aimed at summing up Abbey Lincoln's long career and is likely her best album. Performing in quartet and accompanied, on some tracks, by the tenor saxophone of Joe Lovano or the trumpet of Jerry Gonzalez, the singer delivers, as usual, a tour de chant punctuated by her singular, nonchalant, haranguing and poetic voice. Borrowing from her own compositions or standards, such as Michel Legrand's