Abbey Lincoln: Stardom after 60 for singer

NEW YORK In decades gone by, she caused stirs by posing as a blackgoddess in Marilyn Monroe's tightest dress and screaming on a famouswordless record that married jazz to the civil rights movement.

Now Abbey Lincoln's career has taken an amazing late-life turn.Critics who always said she was a very good singer are calling hergreat, maybe jazz's greatest living singer, maybe another BillieHoliday. They rank her latest record, "You Gotta Pay the Band," asan instant classic.

The record, which includes some extraordinary tenor saxophoneaccompaniment by the late Stan Getz on his last recording date,revives the Depression-era anthem "Brother Can You Spare a Dime" inan …