You Gotta Pay the Band

Abbey Lincoln & Stan Getz - You Gotta Pay the Band

You Gotta Pay the Band
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Artist: Abbey Lincoln & Stan Getz
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1991-10-22
Music Label: Polygram Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Bird Alone
  2. I'm in Love - Abbey Lincoln, Griffin, Joan
  3. You Gotta Pay the Band
  4. Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? - Abbey Lincoln, Gorney, Jay
  5. You Made Me Funny
  6. And How I Hoped for Your Love
  7. When I'm Called Home
  8. Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams - Abbey Lincoln, Bergman, Alan
  9. Up Jumped Spring - Abbey Lincoln, Hubbard, Freddie
  10. A Time for Love - Abbey Lincoln, Mandel, Johnny

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Free Music Review: Passionate, personal, and professional.
Hit: 4 Stars

A group of consummate pros works here with Abbey Lincoln to produce a jazz album that is polished but sometimes playful, and emotional but never careless, with six songs written by Lincoln. Stan Getz on sax is at the top of his form in what turned out to be his last recorded album. Hank Jones on piano adds a sense of romance and sometimes mystery with his frequent (wonderful) solos, and Charlie Haden on bass and Mark Johnson on drums provide the beat. On two songs, "Bird Alone" and "A Time for Love," Maxine Roach adds a haunting viola.

Lincoln's voice, clearly influenced by Billie Holiday and Bessie Smith, may be an acquired taste--reedy, sometimes a little bit "blatty," and lacking sweetness--but she is an actress with a song, and her passion and oneness with her lyrics give her a unique sound that enables her to convey the essence of the music, becoming an interpreter and poet rather than simply a singer.

"Bird Alone" is a song of mystery, "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime," a song of sorrow, and "You Made Me Funny," a "talk-story"--an eerily spoken Lincoln soliloquy, full of contrasts. With "And How I Hoped for Your Love," she branches out into a bossa nova beat, while the magnificent "When I'm Called Home" is a wrenching ballad of loss and missed opportunities. Lincoln sings many of these songs in a minor key, while the solos by Getz and Hank Jones are often more upbeat and bring the music into happier realms in major keys. With a timbre the same as that of Getz's sax, Lincoln's voice becomes one with the sounds of her musicians and allows all of them to soar. n Mary Whipple

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