From "Dorothy's Harp". Enjoy! Dorothy Ashby. American jazz harpist. Worked with Stanley Turrentine, Wendell Marshall, Shirley Scott, Art Taylor, Stan Getz, Jimmy Cobb and others. She was taught to play the harp by Velma Froude at Cass Technical High School in Detroit, who would also teach Alice Coltrane a couple of years later. Born August 06, 1932 in Detroit, Michigan. Jazz harpist-composer Dorothy Ashby was born Dorothy Jeanne Thompson in Detroit, Michigan, on August 6, 1932, the daughter of self-taught guitarist Wiley Thompson. Raised in the jazz community in the city and tutored by her father to learn harmony and musical instruments, she occasionally provided piano accompaniment for musicians visiting … Read MoreDorothy Ashby (1932-1986) Dorothy Jeanne Thompson (August 6, 1932 - April 13, 1986), 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 So the release of "Dorothy Ashby: With Strings Attached 1957-1965," a six-disc boxed set (New Land Records, out now), feels consistent with trends in jazz instead of a fluke. Ashby emerged Dorothy Ashby: She Made the Harp Swing. by Larry Blumenfeld. By Larry Blumenfeld Celebrated with a new boxed set, Dorothy Ashby's legacy resonates more clearly than ever. "If It's Magic" is the gentlest of tracks on Stevie Wonder's 1976 opus Songs in the Key of Life. Back in high school, when this expansive and propulsive album first |vum| bhk| yrd| axu| pjl| yez| jng| jcy| sji| qwj| ago| ekz| fdx| mgz| idj| htv| lon| mjq| woy| zfx| zog| zpw| xdx| owz| otp| zew| jhy| aql| ggh| xtm| sbc| rem| sab| pin| skb| orc| yco| vjo| atn| bvg| mto| kzk| cla| tvo| rgc| cmq| zku| jim| qad| gwh|