Today’s Music: Abbey Lincoln, Charles Mingus, Eric Dolphy, Wes Montgomery

Jazz vocalist and songwriter Abbey Lincoln was born today in 1930 (d.2010). She was unique among jazz singers in that she mostly sang her own deft compositions.

(More ‘Birthdays’ will return tomorrow.)

Charles Mingus and Eric Dolphy “Peggy’s Blue Skylight,” Liege, Belgium, 1964:

Wes Montgomery and Friends, “Work Song”:

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