>> abby lincoln was a creativity lyricist. >> she would go right to the heart with her voice. learned a lot about just taking off all of the froo-froo. i call it that. just focusing on what you need to say >>> when you talk about froo-froo with respect to music, what do you mean? >> i mean showing off your agility, showing off your shops, singing something for the sake of showing that you can do it >>> as opposed to? >> singing it from the heart, telling a story and singing it from the heart >>> that's what you like about billy holiday. >> yes >>> your release is a tribute to her, coming forth by day. tell me about her legacy and why you decided to focus on her. >> there's a wonderful article that i read and it is called the hunting of her. there's so much about her life that we don't know, it's all surrounded in all of this selatiousness. it is about her addiction or the man that she was with her whatever, but they don't really focus very much on her artistry. it is if she is a primitive creation who was able to sing the way that she did, that she had this natural instinct fo