{"product_id":"marion-rampal-song-for-abbey-lp","title":"Marion Rampal - Song For Abbey (LP)","description":"\u003ch1\u003eSong for Abbey honors Abbey Lincoln,singer, composer, through new renditions and originals, renewing her legacy. With Bill Frisell and Archie Shepp.\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarion Rampal's Song for Abbey is a tribute to Abbey Lincoln--singer, composer, poet, activist, actress--whose art reshaped jazz through voice, writing, and stance. Lincoln rejected convention and built a body of work that joined poetry, melody, and moral clarity. Her late career revealed a powerful catalogue of original songs, deeply personal and still rarely covered.Rampal approaches Lincoln as a living influence rather than a distant monument. The album revisits key works from Lincoln's repertoire and sets them alongside pieces that illuminate her roots and affinities--Oscar Brown Jr., Bob Dylan, standards such as Skylark--mapping the sources that nourished her imagination. Songs such as Caged Bird, Learning How to Listen, and The Music Is the Magic are treated as present tense, not archival objects.Guest appearances from Bill Frisell and Archie Shepp mark continuity rather than nostalgia. Frisell's guitar brings lyric economy. Shepp, once close to Lincoln, joins Rampal in newly created music, linking memory with current creation.The arrangements avoid imitation. They search for the structural core of each song--speech rhythm, dramatic line, silence as active element. Rampal's vocal approach privileges articulation, text, timbre, and narrative clarity, drawing on jazz, blues, and folk without display. The result is not pastiche but reactivation: Lincoln's questions about self, freedom, and responsibility in sound are carried forward.Song for Abbey also presents Lincoln as an artist who resisted constraint--industry pressures, gendered expectations, racial projections--not through manifesto but through work. Independence is audible in the songs themselves: direct language, exact phrasing, demanding listening. The album acts as remembrance and renewal, lively rather than reverential, combining melody with free, untamed passages. It conveys the force of an artist who understood jazz as a medium for shaping voice and character.\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003ch2\u003eTrack Listing\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e        \u003cli\u003eLEARNING HOW TO LISTEN\u003c\/li\u003e                  \u003cli\u003eWHOLLY EARTH\u003c\/li\u003e                  \u003cli\u003eCAGED BIRD\u003c\/li\u003e                  \u003cli\u003eTHE MUSIC IS THE MAGIC\u003c\/li\u003e                  \u003cli\u003eMR TAMBOURINE MAN\u003c\/li\u003e                  \u003cli\u003eAND IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE LOVE\u003c\/li\u003e                  \u003cli\u003eSKYLARK\u003c\/li\u003e                  \u003cli\u003eTHROW IT AWAY\u003c\/li\u003e                  \u003cli\u003eREMEMBER THE PEOPLE\u003c\/li\u003e          \u003c\/ul\u003e  \u003ch2\u003eAdditional Details\u003c\/h2\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLabel:\u003c\/strong\u003e LES RIVIERES SOUTERRAINES\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGenre:\u003c\/strong\u003e Jazz\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRun Time:\u003c\/strong\u003e 44 mins\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRegion:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0       \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 04\/03\/26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUPC:\u003c\/strong\u003e 3521381600636\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"LAUTRE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47383046553849,"sku":"AD10063LP","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0815\/4889\/files\/AD10063LP.jpg?v=1770128947","url":"https:\/\/mvdshop.com\/products\/marion-rampal-song-for-abbey-lp","provider":"MVD Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}