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Dorothy Ashby - Soft Winds: The Swinging Harp Of Dorothy Ashby LP
SKU: SOW013
Description:
Dorothy Ashby may not be the first jazz harpist (Caspar Reardon) or
the first female jazz harpist (Adele Girard), but her good feeling
for time and ability to construct melodic, guitar-like lines, mark
her as the most accomplished modern jazz harpist (...) Accompanying
her was another Detroit girl, Terry Pollard. Terrys main instrument
is the piano and she is one of the best in the country, bar none.
She is also a pretty fair country vibraharpist and in this set,
Miss Pollard plays vibes exclusively. With them is still another
Detroiter, Herman Wright, who like Miss Pollard has worked with
Terry Gibbs and Yusef Lateef, and who also served as Miss Ashbys
regular bassist(...) Completing the quartet is Jimmy Cobb, drummer
for the Miles Davis group.
During the proceedings, Cobb travels between brushes and sticks
without upsetting the equilibrium of this essentially quiet set.
There is a wide range of material presented here, from blues like
Benny Goodmans title number, Soft Winds, and Miss Ashbys With
Strings Attached, to movie themes such as Laura, Wild Is the Wind
and The Guns of Navarone. Then there are works by such superior
writers of standards as Kurt Weill (My Ship); Gershwin (The Man I
Love and Love Is Here to Stay) (orig.liner notes)
Format & package: LP on clear vinyl, ltd
to 300 copies
Record label: Sowing Records
Year of release: 2022 (reissued from
1961)
Tracks:
A1 Soft Winds
A2 Wild As The Wind
A3 The Man I Love
A4 My Ship
A5 Love Is Here To Stay
B1 I've Never Been In Love Before
B2 With Strings Attached
B3 Laura
B4 The Guns Of Navarone
B5 Misty
B6 The Gypsy In My Soul
| Specification | Description |
|---|---|
| Weight | 0,4 Kg |
