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ARTIST
ASHBY, DOROTHY
TITLE
Hip Harp / On A Minor Groove
FORMAT
2LP
LABEL
DOXY
CATALOG #
ACV 4009LP
ACV 4009LP
GENRE
JAZZ
RELEASE DATE
2/23/2024
2024 repress. Doxy present a combined reissue of legendary jazz harpist and poly-instrumentalist
Dorothy Ashby
's
Hip Harp
and
In A Minor Groove
, both released separately in 1958. Both albums feature
Frank Wess
. Dorothy Ashby had a unique soul jazz harp sound, and although the instrument she used is probably more thought of in terms of bedtime lullabies, she actually makes it swing nicely, and with a soulful sound that draws back to traditions of African stringed instruments. Ashby was part of the same scene as
Yusef Lateef
, and like Lateef, she managed to use odd instrumentation in new contexts, to get a very unique jazz sound. 140 gram clear vinyl; First pressing comes in an edition of 500 (numbered).
From the original liner notes for
Hip Harp
: "
In
Hip Harp
in addition to the interpretations of standards like 'Moonlight In Vermont', 'Dancing In The Dark', 'Charmaine' and 'There's A Small Hotel', Dorothy and Frank work out on three Ashby tunes: 'Pawky', a minor-key blues, 'Back Talk', major-key blues and 'Jollity', a medium-up original. Dorothy Ashby has added to the basic territory that the harp previously occupied. In fusing her sometimes guitar-like, swinging line to the expected harp effects, she has added another step to the instrument-scope of jazz
(...)"
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