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Recorded at Nola Studios, also Port of Call (take 2) (Cecil Taylor), All the Things You Could Be by Now If Sigmund Freud’s Wife Was Your Mother (Charles Mingus) and What Love? (Charles Mingus)
Produced by Nat Hentoff, also All the Things You Could Be by Now If Sigmund Freud’s Wife Was Your Mother (Charles Mingus), What Love? (Charles Mingus) and Cindy’s Main Mood (take 1) (Cecil Taylor)
Released on Barnaby Records, also Cindy’s Main Mood (take 1) (Cecil Taylor), Straight Ahead and O.P. (take 2) (Cecil Taylor)
Written by Langston Hughes, also Backlash Blues (Nina Simone), Daybreak in Alabama (Audra McDonald) and Dream Variations (Audra McDonald)
Worth knowing
Counted from cited credits on fono.
76 other songs on fono were recorded at Nola Studios, by Cecil Taylor and Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers and others
Nat Hentoff produced 5 of Abbey Lincoln’s top 10 songs
Nat Hentoff produced 32 songs on fono
Langston Hughes wrote 21 songs on fono
Credits
All 16 credits
- Written by
- Langston Hughes and Randy Weston
- Produced by
- Nat Hentoff
- Performed by
- Abbey Lincoln, Art Davis, Booker Little, Eric Dolphy, Julian Priester, Mal Waldron, Max Roach, Robert Whitley, Roger “Montego Joe” Sanders and Walter Benton
- Part of
- Straight Ahead
- Recorded at
- Nola Studios
- Released on
- Barnaby Records
- Written by
- Langston Hughes and Randy Weston
- Produced by
- Nat Hentoff
- Performed by
- Abbey Lincoln, Art Davis, Booker Little, Eric Dolphy, Julian Priester, Mal Waldron, Max Roach, Robert Whitley, Roger “Montego Joe” Sanders and Walter Benton
- Part of
- Straight Ahead
- Recorded at
- Nola Studios
- Released on
- Barnaby Records
Connected by credits
Other songs that share a producer, writer, studio or label with this one.
Same producer: Nat Hentoff
Same writer: Langston Hughes
Same writer: Randy Weston
Same studio: Nola Studios
Same label: Barnaby Records
Same release: Straight Ahead
Same producer: Nat Hentoff
Same writer: Langston Hughes
Elsewhere
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1MusicBrainz African Lady was performed by Abbey Lincoln
African Lady was performed by Abbey Lincoln
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
2MusicBrainz African Lady was performed by Art Davis
3MusicBrainz African Lady was performed by Booker Little
African Lady was performed by Booker Little
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
4MusicBrainz African Lady was performed by Eric Dolphy
African Lady was performed by Eric Dolphy
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
5MusicBrainz African Lady was performed by Julian Priester
African Lady was performed by Julian Priester
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
6MusicBrainz African Lady was performed by Mal Waldron
African Lady was performed by Mal Waldron
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
7MusicBrainz African Lady was performed by Max Roach
8MusicBrainz African Lady was performed by Robert Whitley
African Lady was performed by Robert Whitley
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
9MusicBrainz African Lady was performed by Roger “Montego Joe” Sanders
African Lady was performed by Roger “Montego Joe” Sanders
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
10MusicBrainz African Lady was performed by Walter Benton
African Lady was performed by Walter Benton
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
11MusicBrainz African Lady was produced by Nat Hentoff
African Lady was produced by Nat Hentoff
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
12MusicBrainz African Lady was written by Langston Hughes
African Lady was written by Langston Hughes
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
13MusicBrainz African Lady was written by Randy Weston
African Lady was written by Randy Weston
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
14MusicBrainz African Lady is part of the release Straight Ahead
African Lady is part of the release Straight Ahead
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
15MusicBrainz African Lady was recorded at Nola Studios
African Lady was recorded at Nola Studios
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
16MusicBrainz Barnaby Records is the label of the song African Lady
Barnaby Records is the label of the song African Lady
MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026
17MusicBrainz African Lady was released on 1972