Abbey Lincoln - album Sophisticated Abbey: Live at The Keystone Korner 2015 (1980)

The concert held in the climate of intimacy and the sense of complicity of the venue Keystone Korner, San Francisco, California in March 1980. The moody emotionality and the harsh suggestion of Abbey Lincoln's voice, always in a strange balance between vulnerability and solemnity, impose themselves in his eccentric jazz ditties of the period, lights and shades, shapely melodies of romantic songs with whom she creates a sort of conflicted and seductively precarious eloquence: and even more so in the shadowy and heartbreaking masterpiece by Mancini and Mercer "Whistling away in the Dark" performed with painful and paused abandon alone with her voice on a piano solo.

Abbey Lincoln - vocals.
Phil Wright - piano.
James Leary - bass.
Doug Sides - drums.

Painted lady.
Long as you're living.
Somos novios (It's impossible).
Medley: Sophisticated lady/There are such things/Man of music (con alma).
Whistling away in the dark.
People in me.
Medley: The nearness of you/For all we know.
Golden lady.
God bless the child.