Ashby, Dorothy
Soft Winds: The Swinging Harp Of... (clear)
Dorothy Ashby album from 1961 that also features female vibes player Terry Pollard. Comes with a version of The
Skatalites 'Guns of Navarone' which is a pretty surreal listening experience. From the original liner notes: "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. Terry's 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 Ashby's 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 wide range of material presented here, from blues like
Benny Goodman's title number, 'Soft Winds', and Miss Ashby's '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')"
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Format
LP - 1 disk
Release
25-02-2022
Label
Item-nr
554926
EAN
0781930069113
Availability
Not in stock
Tracks
Title
Artist
1
SOFT WINDS
2
WILD IS THE WIND
3
THE MAN I LOVE
4
MY SHIP
5
LOVE IS HERE TO STAY
6
I'VE NEVER BEEN IN LOVE BEFORE
7
WITH STRINGS ATTACHED
8
LAURA
9
THE GUNS OF NAVARONE
10
MISTY
11
THE GYPSY IN MY SOUL