Dorothy Ashby

About

Dorothy Jeanne Thompson, better known as Dorothy Ashby, was an American jazz harpist, singer and composer. Hailed as one of the most "unjustly under loved jazz greats of the 1950s" and the "most accomplished modern jazz harpist," Ashby established the harp as an improvising jazz instrument, beyond earlier use as a novelty or background orchestral instrument, proving the harp could play bebop as adeptly as the instruments commonly associated with jazz, such as the saxophone or piano.

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Top Tracks

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   By The Time I Get To Phoenix

   Dorothy's Harp

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   Moonlight In Vermont

   Hip Harp (Japan)

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   Little Sunflower

   Afro-Harping

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   Just Had To Tell Somebody

   Dorothy's Harp

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   Come Live With Me

   Afro-Harping

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   The Windmills Of Your Mind

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   Theme From "Valley Of The Dolls"

   Afro-Harping

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   Drink

   The Rubáiyát Of Dorothy Ashby

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   The Moving Finger

   The Rubáiyát Of Dorothy Ashby

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    Canto De Ossanha

    Dorothy's Harp

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