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FILE - This June 16, 2001 file photo, shows Max Roach performing at the Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. Music and records from one of the creators of modern jazz drumming, Max Roach, will be preserved at the Library of Congress. On Monday, the library announced the acquisition of Roach’s collection from his body of work over several decades. It includes more than 100,000 items, including 80,000 manuscripts and papers, as well as photographs, music manuscripts and hundreds of sound and video recordings. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, File)

Max Roach music, records go to Library of Congress

By BRETT ZONGKER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2005 file photo, Jazz singer Abbey Lincoln performs during Jazz at Lincoln Center's Higher Ground Hurricane Relief Benefit Concert, in New York.The jazz singer and songwriter Abbey Lincoln has died in New York at age 80. Known for her independent and uncompromising style, Lincoln made records and acted in films in the 1950s and '60s, then saw her career surge again in the 1990s when she found herself as a songwriter. (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen, File)

Jazz singer Abbey Lincoln dies at age 80 in NY

By CHARLES J. GANS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2005 file photo, Jazz singer Abbey Lincoln performs during Jazz at Lincoln Center's Higher Ground Hurricane Relief Benefit Concert, in New York.The jazz singer and songwriter Abbey Lincoln has died in New York at age 80. Known for her independent and uncompromising style, Lincoln made records and acted in films in the 1950s and '60s, then saw her career surge again in the 1990s when she found herself as a songwriter. (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen, File)

Jazz singer Abbey Lincoln dies at age 80 in NY

By CHARLES J. GANS - Associated Press