That's Him! (Mono Remastered 2026) Abbey Lincoln

• 1 Strong Man (Remastered 2026) 05:05
• 2 Happiness Is A Thing Called Joe (Remastered 2026) 05:58
• 3 My Man (Remastered 2026) 03:57
• 4 Tender As A Rose (Remastered 2026) 02:56
• 5 That's Him (Remastered 2026) 03:23
• 6 I Must Have That Man (Remastered 2026) 03:57
• 7 Porgy (Remastered 2026) 04:24
• 8 When A Woman Loves A Man (Remastered 2026) 04:29
• 9 Don't Explain (Remastered 2026) 06:40
• Total Runtime 40:49

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That's Him! is the second album by American jazz vocalist Abbey Lincoln featuring tracks recorded in 1957 for the Riverside label.

A vocalist, composer, actor and activist, Abbey Lincoln will forever be remembered for her punchy, expressive style as well as her outspoken personality - both on and off the bandstand.

One of her most notable LPs is the 1957 session That's Him. This album was her first release for producer Orrin Keepnews's Riverside Records and her second overall... and it marked the beginnings of a real change in the singer's style. While her debut was a flowery orchestral session featuring a big band with stings, this sophomore date pitted Abbey’s expressive voice against some of New York's leading voices. We’re talkin' Sonny Rollins on sax, Kenny Dorham on trumpet, Wynton Kelly on keys, Paul Chambers on bass and Lincoln's future husband Max Roach on drums.

"That’s Him was 27-yearold Abbey Lincoln’s first recording for Riverside, following her 1956 debut Abbey Lincoln’s Affair – A Story of a Girl in Love on Liberty. While the debut featured her in an orchestral setting, this followup sees the singer in the company of a truly stellar line-up: Rollins and Roach had recorded Saxophone Colossus the previous year, Chambers was a member of the Miles Davis quintet (Kelly was to join in 1959) and Dorham had replaced Clifford Brown in Roach’s own trailblazing quintet. It’s fascinating to note how the album’s lead-off song, Oscar Brown Jr.’s ‘Strong Man’, gives the most overt nod to one of Lincoln’s greatest influences, Billie Holiday.

In fact, listening to the behind-the-beat phrasing and tight vibrato of the opening line (“I’m in love with a strong man”), for a split second you think it could actually be Billie Holiday. Lincoln’s powerful storytelling gift – unfolding the narrative in one long, expressive arc – is entirely her own, heard to especially moving effect on an unaccompanied ‘Tender As A Rose’, the Nash/Weill title track and the Holiday-penned ‘Don’t Explain’. Two bonus tracks present alternate takes of ‘I Must Have That Man’ and ‘Porgy’. If the Riverside albums that followed, Abbey Is Blue and It’s Magic, proved even stronger statements, That’s Him remains a key work in Lincoln’s discography." (Peter Quinn, jazzwise.com)

Abbey Lincoln, vocals
Kenny Dorham, trumpet
Sonny Rollins, tenor saxophone
Wynton Kelly, piano (except track 11: "Don't Explain"), bass (track 11)
Paul Chambers, bass (except track 11)
Max Roach, drums

Recorded October 28, 1957 in New York

Digitally remastered - MONO Recording!

Please Note: we do not offer the 192kHz version of this album, because our analysis clearly showed, that the 192kHz does not reach a frequency spectrum, that would justify to offer 192kHz. Hence we offer the 96kHz version.

Abbey Lincoln
As with her hero Billie Holiday, Abbey Lincoln always meant the lyrics she sang. A dramatic performer whose interpretations were full of truth and insight, Lincoln actually began her career as a fairly lightweight supper-club singer. She went through several name changes (including Anna Marie, Gaby Lee, and Gaby Woolridge) before settling on Abbey Lincoln. She recorded with Benny Carter in 1956 and performed a number in the 1957 Hollywood film The Girl Can't Help It. Lincoln's first of three albums for Riverside (1957-1959) had Max Roach on drums and he was a major influence on her; she began to be choosy about the songs she sang and to give words the proper emotional intensity. Lincoln held her own on her early dates with such sidemen as Kenny Dorham, Sonny Rollins, Wynton Kelly, Curtis Fuller, and Benny Golson. She was quite memorable on Roach's Freedom Now Suite, showing some very uninhibited emotions. Lincoln's Candid date Straight Ahead (1961) had among its players Roach, Booker Little, Eric Dolphy, and Coleman Hawkins, and she made some important appearances on Roach's Impulse! album Percussion Bitter Suite.

Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach were married in 1962, an association that lasted until 1970. They worked together for a while but Lincoln (who found it harder to get work in jazz due to the political nature of some of her music) became involved in acting and did not record as a leader during 1962-1972. She finally recorded for Inner City in 1973 and gradually became more active in jazz. Her two Billie Holiday tribute albums for Enja (1987) showed listeners that the singer was still in her prime, and she recorded several excellent sets for Verve in the 1990s. In the following years, she released a handful of recordings including Over the Years in 2000; It's Me in 2003; and her final recording, Abbey Sings Abbey, in 2007. Abbey Lincoln died in New York City on August 14, 2010; she was 80 years old. Because she put so much thought into each of her recordings, it is not an understatement to say that every set she issued is well worth owning. (Scott Yanow, AMG)

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