For the Love of Abbey is a solo piano album by Marc Cary.

Pianist Marc Cary played with vocalist Abbey Lincoln for 12 years, until 2006.

[1] Cary commented that he chose the material based on which pieces that he and Lincoln performed together had most "stuck with" him.

[3] The Jazzwise reviewer wrote that "Cary's playing is packed with drama: orchestral-like ripples and flourishes, richly sustained chords, tremolos and pedal points, but the pianist is also grounded in the earthy rhythms and incantatory folk-melody of the African-American tradition".

[1] The DownBeat reviewer wrote: "Cary's performance shimmers with a Lincoln-esque ability to tackle nostalgia without sentimentality, sculpting blue chords and richly layered textures to reference the essence of the song's author while imbuing the music with his own rhythmic dynamism.