Dorothy Ashby - Hip Harp On A Minor Groove (Vinyl 2LP - 1958 - EU - Reissue)
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This LP brings together for the first time, HIP HARP and IN A MINOR GROOVE, the two albums recorded in 1958 by the legendary jazz harpist and polistrumentist Dorothy Ashby. 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.
“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(...) (from the original liner notes)
“IN A MINOR GROOVE is so named because all of the tunes are set in that particular mode. They represent a mixture of standards, jazz originals and one fairly recent pop song. Like the first set featuring Dorothy Ashby and Frank Wess (Hip Harp), this is not rock 'em, sock 'em jazz; it is far from the cloying effects of the kind of performances often associated with jazz of a low decibel nature” (from the original liner notes)
Numbered first press of 500 copies.
Trackliste
A1 Pawky
A2 Moonlight In Vermont
A3 Back Talk
B1 Dancing in the dark
B2 Charmain
B3 Jollity
B4 There’s a small hotel
C1 Rascallity
C2 You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To
C3 It’s A Minor Thing
C4 Yesterdays
D1 Bohemia After Dark
D2 Taboo
D3 Autumn In Rome
D4 Alone Together
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