Over The Years: Vinyl 2LP King Hannah ‘Open Up The Night’

‘Open Up The Night’

“Love Is The Law” and “Love Me And Leave Me” (co-written by Liam Gallagher)

It’s a bold riposte to your parochial beliefs on whatever a pop song can or should be

one of the most thrilling and electrifying of word-singers

Over The Years: Vinyl 2LP King Hannah ‘Open Up The Night’Recorded in 2000, mostly in New York, Over the Years is aimed at summing up Abbey Lincoln's long career and is likely her best album. Performing in quartet and accompanied, on some tracks, by the tenor saxophone of Joe Lovano or the trumpet of Jerry Gonzalez, the singer delivers, as usual, a tour de chant punctuated by her singular, nonchalant, haranguing and poetic voice. Borrowing from her own compositions or standards, such as Michel Legrand's