That's Him! is the second album by American jazz vocalist Abbey Lincoln featuring tracks recorded in 1957 for the Riverside label.[1]
Reception
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| MusicHound Jazz |  [3] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [4] |
| The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide | [5] |
| The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz | [6] |
The editors of AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars, and reviewer Scott Yanow stated: "even this early, she was already a major jazz singer with a style of her own".[2]
A reviewer for Billboard commented: "Miss Lincoln is a comer with a flare for the dramatic and an effective delivery... Material treated is provocative; some of it off-beat, some in the standard category."[7]
Eric Ajaye of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation noted that the album "marked the beginnings of a real change in the singer's style," and remarked: "While her debut was a flowery orchestral session featuring a big band with strings, this sophomore date pitted Abbey's expressive voice against some of New York's leading voices... Here, we get our first glimpse of a revitalised Abbey Lincoln, and both she and Roach would take this incandescent energy into the next decade with music made in response to the civil rights movement."[8]
The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings wrote: "Dorham is one of the most naturally vocal of the bop trumpeters and as such is an ideal partner, though it's the still underrated Kelly who carries the day."[4]
Track listing
- "Strong Man" (Oscar Brown, Jr.) – 5:04
- "Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe" (Harold Arlen, E.Y. "Yip" Harburg) – 5:57
- "My Man" (Jacques Charles, Channing Pollack, Albert Willemetz, Maurice Yvain) – 3:57
- "Tender as a Rose" (Phil Moore) – 3:00
- "That's Him" (Ogden Nash, Kurt Weill) – 3:26
- "I Must Have That Man!" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 4:00
- "I Must Have That Man!" [take 3] (Fields, McHugh) – 3:56 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "Porgy" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 4:27
- "Porgy" [take 1] (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 4:30 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "When a Woman Loves a Man" (Bernie Hanighen, Gordon Jenkins, Johnny Mercer) – 4:28
- "Don't Explain" (Arthur Herzog, Jr., Billie Holiday) – 6:39
Personnel
- Abbey Lincoln – vocals
- Kenny Dorham – trumpet
- Sonny Rollins – tenor saxophone
- Wynton Kelly – piano (except track 11: "Don't Explain"), bass (track 11)[2][9]
- Paul Chambers – bass (except track 11)
- Max Roach – drums
References
- ^ Riverside Records discography accessed September 13, 2012
- ^ a b c Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed September 13, 2012
- ^ Holtje, Steve; Lee, Nancy Ann (1998). MusicHound: The Essential Album Guide. Schirmer. p. 710.
- ^ a b Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 894. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ Swenson, John, ed. (1999). The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide. Random House. p. 426.
- ^ Larkin, Colin, ed. (2004). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz. Virgin Books. p. 538.
- ^ "Reviews and Ratings of New Jazz Albums". Billboard. February 3, 1958. p. 44 – via Google Books.
- ^ Ajaye, Eric (February 18, 2024). "'That's Him' Abbey Lincoln". ABC. Retrieved March 4, 2024.
- ^ Enstice, Wayne; Stockhouse, Janis (2004) Jazzwomen: Conversations with Twenty-One Musicians. p. 203. Indiana University Press.
