An Evening at L'Abbaye

An Evening at L'Abbaye
Live album by Gordon Heath
Lee Payant
Released 1957 (1957)
Label Elektra
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An Evening at L'Abbaye is an album of duets by Gordon Heath (September 20, 1918 - August 27, 1991) and Lee Payant (1924 - December 14, 1976), released by Elektra Records in 1957. L'Abbaye was a popular Left Bank nightclub in Paris, opened in 1949 by Heath and Payant and where the two performed folk songs, spirituals, and blues in English and French for 27 years until Payant died from cancer in 1976.

References

    1. Biography: Heath, Gordon 1918-1991
    2. Gordon Heath IMDB entry
    3. Gordon Heath & Lee Payant Discography
    4. Gordon Heath Papers, 1913-1992, Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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