Abe Lincoln

American Dixieland jazz trombonist, born March 29, 1907, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, died June 9, 2000, Van Nuys, California. Abe Lincoln, renowned as a masterful dixieland player, enjoyed a considerable reputation in traditional jazz circles as a trombonist with a punchy, expressive, hard-hitting style who could improvise fluently in the idiom. Those qualities ensured he was much in demand, both as a performer and a prolific session musician, and he appeared on over 250 recordings across his long career.