Personnel: Abbey Lincoln, Maggie Brown (vocals); Nicholas Payton (trumpet, flugelhorn); Bobby Hutcherson (vibraphone, marimba); Marc Cary, James Hurt (piano); John Ormond, Michael Bowie (bass); Alvester Garnett (drums); Daniel Moreno (percussion). Recorded at Avatar Studios, New York, New York on June 3-5, 1998. Personnel: Abbey Lincoln (vocals); Nicholas Payton (trumpet, flugelhorn); James Hurt, Marc Cary (piano); Bobby Hutcherson (vibraphone, marimba); Alvester Garnett (drums); Daniel Moreno (percussion). Audio Mixer: Jay Newland. Recording information: Avatar Studios, New York, NY (06/03/1998-06/05/1998). Photographers: John Sann; Adger Cowans. Arranger: Abbey Lincoln. Even a cursory listen to WHOLLY EARTH makes it seem fair to call Lincoln the inheritor of Nina Simone's lofty mantle. Like Simone, Lincoln employs an expressive, rough-edged tenor and an expansive compositional mindset in the service of something too multi-faceted to be pigeonholed as "jazz." Lincoln composed most of the tunes here and ...