Great Women Singers Of The 20th Century Abbey Lincoln

Abbey is seen a rare 1991 performance at the Promenade Theater in New York. She is at once beautiful, insightful and at the top of her musical gifts. The appearance represents the beginning of a great comeback that has since established her as a legendary jazz vocalist and composer.

This intimate concert series heralds the vocal talents of the great female singers of the 20th century, celebrating the uniqueness of the individual voices that helped inspire generations of younger performers. In this installment, the incomparable Sarah Vaughan -- a bebop singer with an impressive operatic range -- lends her signature voice to a selection of jazz standards as part of a memorable live performance filmed in the mid-1980s.