Title: Abbey Lincoln – Straight Ahead
Year/Genre: 1961, Jazz
Matrix #: KZ 31037
Condition: VG+ (radio station pressing)

Cultural Facts:

1. Recorded in one February 1961 NYC session with an all-star cast including Booker Little, Eric Dolphy, Coleman Hawkins, Mal Waldron, Art Davis, and Max Roach.

2. Follows the Lincoln/Roach civil-rights era and keeps that social consciousness present, even when the material is more traditional on the surface.

3. Radio-station copies like this were often used for heavy rotation and librarian handling, making clean-play VG+ survivors a specific collector lane.

Price Suggestions:
NM: $22–$28
VG+: $15–$20
VG: $10–$14
G: $6–$9
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