Xenia Rubinos on Abbey Lincoln's "Abbey is Blue" (1959)

Multi-instrumentalist & songwriter Xenia Rubinos joins Oliver and guest co-host Jocelyn Brown to discuss Abbey Lincoln's underrated jazz LP, Abbey is Blue. We discuss Abbey's melancholy voice, her work in the civil rights movement, and how her work has influenced Xenia's own music.
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Show Tracklisting (all songs from Abbey is Blue unless otherwise indicated):
Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise
Come Sunday
Xenia Rubinos: Lonely Lover
Lost In The Stars
Max Roach & Abbey Lincoln: Triptych: Prayer/Protest/Peace
Brother Where are You?
Afro Blue
Thursday's Child
Laugh, Clown, Laugh
Lost In The Stars
Xenia Rubinos: Laugh Clown
Let Up
Long As You're Living
Mongo Santamaria: Afro Blue
Afro Blue
Lonely House
Let Up
Lonely House
Laugh, Clown, Laugh
Come Sunday
Long As You're Living
Laugh, Clown, Laugh
Max Roach & Abbey Lincoln: Driva' Man
Nina Simone: I Loves Your Porgy
Charles Mingus: Fables of Faubus
Duke Ellington: Warm Valley
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