A Turtle's Dream

Since her 1960 recording for Candid, Abbey Lincoln has brought an unequaled passion to the jazz vocal art, an ability to invest words with special shades of meaning that recalls the spirit of Billie Holiday. Her talent has long been appreciated more by musicians than by a large general audience (perhaps because her work is so focused on maximizing the emotional potential of a lyric rather than on treating the voice as an instrument, as many jazz singers do). That respect is reciprocal: her work has always featured the finest musicians, from Eric Dolphy to Stan Getz. Lincoln composed most of the music and lyrics on this 1994 set, and each song is a journey into the self, into the wellsprings of life, from loss to joy. Her accompanists rise to the emotional occasion: fine moments are contributed by Kenny Barron, Charlie Haden, Pat Metheny, Roy Hargrove, saxophonist Julien Lourau, and Lincoln's frequent accompanist, pianist Rodney Kendrick.

-Stuart Broomer

Artist: Abbey Lincoln

Album: A Turtle's Dream

Year: 1994

Label: Verve

Personnel:

Abbey Lincoln: vocals

Rodney Kendrick: piano

Charlie Haden: bass

Victor Lewis: drums

featuring:

Roy Hargrove: trumpet on 4,8

Julien Lourau: soprano saxophone on 10 and tenor saxophone on 2,4,7,8

Kenny Barron: piano on 3,11

Pat Metheny: guitars on 1,5,6,11

Lucky Peterson: guitar and background vocals on 9

Christian McBride: bass on 4,8

Michael Bowie: bass on 7,9

String arrangements by:

Laurent Cugny on 1

Randolph Noel on 3

Track List:

1. Throw It Away
2. A Turtle's Dream
3. Down Here Below
4. Nature Boy
5. Avec Le Temps
6. Should've Been
7. My Love Is You
8. Storywise
9. Hey, Lordy Mama
10. Not To Worry
11. Being Me

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MoodSwing

Artist: Joshua Redman
Album: MoodSwing
Year: 1994
Description: On his first album with his own band and the first one to entirely feature his own material, saxist Redman finds ingenious ways of creating a mode of acoustic jazz that is both entertaining and enlightening. Accessible soul and blues riffs coexist with brainier moments, even including a touch of the avant-garde (a nod to his saxophonist father, Dewey). MoodSwing plays like an artistic journey. A- -Josef Woodard

Track List:

1. Sweet Sorrow
   
2. Chill
   
3. Rejoice
   
4. Faith
   
5. Alone In The Morning
   
6. Mischief
   
7. Dialogue
   
8. The Oneness Of Two (In Three)
   
9. Past In The Present
   
10. Obsession
    
11. Headin Home
    

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