Label: Riverside / Craft Recordings

Reissued 2021, Originally released 1958

Though Abbey Lincoln’s life was full of starts and stops — great joys and many sacrifices — Lincoln never stopped the search for herself, ultimately writing compositions that offered just a mere yet telling glimpse of who she was and why what she had to say mattered. Hearing her on early recordings like It’s Magic, right at the cusp of her brilliant and prolific career, at long last, it feels like finally getting to meet her.

Track listing:

1. I Am In Love
   
2. It's Magic
   
3. Just For Me
   
4. An Occasional Man
   
5. Ain't Nobody's Business
   
6. Out Of The Past
   
7. Music, Maestro, Please
   
8. Exactly Like You
   
9. Love
   
10. Little Niles