Painted Lady [Import]

Archie Shepp (Artist), Abbey Lincoln (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 22, 2011)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Itm
• ASIN: B00005MHPO
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #418,892 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Painted Lady or Golden Lady, Abbey is Sophisticated, May 23, 2011

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Dr. Debra Jan Bibel "World Music Explorer" (Oakland, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Painted Lady (Audio CD)

This album, Painted Lady, is a reissue of the 1981 edition. Another edition was entiled Goldern Lady, which confuses matters. From the list of tracks, Lady is the theme. Abbey Lincoln here is backed by a very swinging band led by the tenor saxophone of Archie Shepp, or perhaps Lincoln supports Shepp, because the sound is different from Lincoln's many other recordings. Vocalist and band complement each other. One reason I purchased this album was that I liked the version of her powerful song, Throw It Away, but her sensitive intrepretations of the other tunes, from Ellington's Sophisticated Lady and Stevie Wonder's Golden Lady to Michel Legrand's What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life surprised me. This is a strong concept album and Abbey Lincoln is at the top of her style, with emphasis on words and their instrumental phrasing. Other band members are Roy Burroughs, trumpet; Hilton Ruiz, piano; Jack Gregg, bass, and Freddie Waits, drums.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Joyous and sad, vocal jazz classic, November 28, 2010

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Nikica Gilic - See all my reviews

This review is from: Painted Lady (Audio CD)

Equally appealing to Billie Holiday fans, Sarah Vaughan fans, Betty Carter fans and Nina Simone fans,
this ecclectic Abbey Lincoln's jazz vocal album
(with the touch of soul and even pop) has some fine back-up musicians some of which are true stars of modern jazz (well, at least Shepp is), but here in a supporting role (in spite of some fine solos).
The recording is from Paris, in 1987;
it is gloriously spirited with some finger snapping, clapping and even cheerful overdubbing - hence Lincoln's short dueting with her self on "The painted lady on the stage".
Liner notes are close to non-existant in my 2008 cd reissue by ITM,
but that doesn't diminish my listening pleasure.
They don't say so nowhere on this CD, but most songs sound as if Abbey (co)wrote them, but I cannot vouch for that...
Well, at least we all know she didn't write "Sophisticated lady", but never mind; she owns it here nevertheless...