Through the Years [Box set]

Abbey Lincoln | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 9, 2010)
• Original Release Date: 2010
• Number of Discs: 3
• Format: Box set
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• Label: Hip-O Select
• ASIN: B002R7SCO0
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #243,685 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. This Can't Be Love

2. Don't Explain

3. I Must Have That Man

4. Little Niles

5. Let Up

6. Come Sunday

See all 13 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. The World Is Falling Down

2. You Must Believe in Spring and Love

3. First Song

4. Bird Alone

5. I'm in Love

6. A Time for Love

See all 12 tracks on this disc

Disc: 3

1. Avec le Temps

2. Mr. Tambourine Man

3. Love Has Gone Away

4. And It's Supposed to Be Love

5. Should've Been

6. Nature Boy

See all 12 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Her first career-spanning collection! These 3 CDs take you from Abbey's Liberty, Riverside and Candid LPs in the '50s and '60s to her '60s, '70s and '80s albums for Impulse!, Philips, Blue Marge, Muse and Enja. Her '90s Verve releases drew the biggest raves of her career, and key tracks from those are here, too. Her commanding voice joins Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz, J.J. Johnson, Grady Tate, Hank Jones, Kenny Barron, Pat Metheny and others on This Can't Be Love; Come Sunday; Africa; I'm in Love; A Child Is Born; I Should Care; Through the Years; Avec Le Temps; Nature Boy; Skylark; Blue Monk , and more!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Deserving of a more complete collection!, February 17, 2010

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Patrick M. Hnidka "pghmusiclover" (Munhall, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Through the Years (Audio CD)

Emarcy in Europe released this Abbey Lincoln 3-CD box set in late 2009, and Hip-o Select has released it here in the US in early 2010.

It is more-or-less a career overview, including one track from her Liberty album, as well as a few tracks from her Riverside recordings and her work with Max Roach. Overall, it is somewhat disappointing, since Ms. Lincoln is certainly deserving of a box set, but this is (obviously) skewed to her Verve recordings, most of which are still readily available on individual discs. I find it unbelievable that this collection does not include "Afro Blue", since Abbey performed the first vocal version ever on her ABBEY IS BLUE LP of 1959 -- and it is somewhat of a signature tune for her.

While this box does include a few rarities, it really should have been a four disc collection so they could have included more of her hard-to-find work with Max Roach and one-off tracks recorded for other miscellaneous jazz projects:

Not In Love - with Cedar Walton [Muse 1980]
In A Sentimental Mood - with Cedar Walton [Muse 1980]
Castles - with Cedar Walton [Muse 1980]
For All We Know - with Geri Allen [from Drugstore Cowboy soundtrack / Novus 1989]
A Waltz for Grace - with Steve Williamson [Verve 1990]
Ten Cents A Dance - with Frank Morgan [Antilles 1990]
Wholly Earth - with Frank Morgan [Anitlles 1990]
Through The Years - with Bheki Mseleku [Verve 1994]
I Must Have That Man - Carnegie Salutes Jazz Masters [Verve 1994]
Christmas Cheer - Jazz For Joy A Verve Christmas Album [Verve 1996]
This Christmas - Jazz For Joy A Verve Christmas Album [Verve 1996]
Straight Ahead - with Mal Waldron [BMG 1997]
God Bless The Child - with Mal Waldron [BMG 1997]

All in all, I'd give this 3.5 stars, since the music it includes by Abbey Lincoln is stellar -- it just should have been so much more!