I first discovered Abbey Lincoln via Vinyl Me Please’s reissue of It’s Magic from 1958, in the VMP Classics Series. This album was a followup to that, her fourth full-length album and the third on Riverside. Musicians here include Stanley Turrentine, his broth Tommy Turrentine (on trumpet), Max Roach (to whom Lincoln was later married), Philly Joe Jones, and many other luminaries of the late fifties jazz scene.

It’s a wonderful collection of songs – she still feels wildly underappreciated especially in these initial four albums.

My copy is a 1975 Japanese reissue in the Riverside Original Records series, complete with lyric insert sheet in English and Japanese, though it is missing the OBI strip it would have had externally. Via Cheap Thrills in Montreal, QC.