Welcome to the official website of legendary hot jazz trombonist Abram "Abe" Lincoln!

Abe's site will continue to be a work-in-progress as new content becomes available for inclusion.

We already have a lot of content we want to share with you.  We're still working toward including sound & video clips, articles, more photos, etc.  This site's goal is to showcase the life and times of one of the most exciting and underrated hot jazz trombonists in the history of jazz.  Former Jim Cullum Jazz Band trombonist and life-long Abe Lincoln fan, Mike Pittsley, is currently in the process of transcribing some of Abe's solos for inclusion here on the website.  Check back to see what's new!

Speaking of transcribed Abe Lincoln solos, the website's masthead is a transcription of the last four measures of Abe's introduction to "Farewell Blues," as recorded on Southland Records SLP-LP 215.  If you would like to see and hear this introduction in its entirety, please click here!

Update: 11/1/2009 - Dallas area musician and Abe Lincoln fan, Bob Burnham, has very kindly taken the time to transcribe some of Abe's solos from the 1955 Capitol Records classic, 'Coast Concert.'  You can navigate to these solos from the Solo Transcriptions page.

Enjoy your visit!

News Flash!

A previously unreleased recording session of the Rampart Street Paraders has now become available on CD via the Jump label (JCD 12-34), courtesy of the Allegheny Jazz Society.  This session was recorded in San Francisco, CA in the very early 1960's before a live audience at a venue called "Storyville."

The personnel on this session is as follows:  Billy Butterfield, cornet; Abe Lincoln, trombone; Matty Matlock, clarinet; Stan Wrightsman, piano; Ray Leatherwood, bass; Nick Fatool, drums.

This CD is available from many sites online.  We're going to try and make it available here as well.  In the meantime, click here for a Google page of sites where this album can be purchased.