About Abbey Lincoln
Anna Marie Wooldridge, known professionally as Abbey Lincoln, was an American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress. She was a civil rights activist beginning in the 1960s. Lincoln made a career out of delivering deeply felt presentations of standards, as well as writing and singing her own material. By the end of the decade, a recording of the 1934 song "For All We Know", by Lincoln accompanied only by Geri Allen on piano, was featured in the 1989 film Drugstore Cowboy. The song was part of her live repertoire, as documented on the second volume of Abbey Plays Billie, which was recorded in November of 1987, but first released the same year as the film. In 1960, she sang on Max Roach's landmark civil rights-themed recording We Insist! (subtitled Freedom Now Suite), "regarded as the earliest full-scale protest record in jazz", as historian Nat Hentoff observed.
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