No DOROTHY ASHBY thread?

Don't know of any others except the Cadet ones, but those two make for a nice pair. Always intended to check out some more Richard Evans related stuff...

haha first time i heard 'soul vibration' was when the dude from all natural rapped over it. what up deej.

anyway all i know of her are the cadets, too. of evans i know a little of the soulful strings stuff (but apparently not the good stuff), 'california soul' and the others off the marlena shaw album, and samuel jonathan johnson's 'my music', which is a class enough track in itself before it suddenly unfurls into the jadakiss 'we gonna make it' loop. yum.

havent heard a lot of these: http://funky16corners.tripod.com/8_evans_2.htm

Afro-Harping
Afro-Harping
Afro-Harping

This is awesome, awesome stuff.

S&D would be useful, because as nice as some stuff is, other bits drift into that kind of feliciano smooth interpretation category. windmills of your mind is nice though.

To be honest, I've only heard Afro-Harping, and I'm happy to stay in a pre-internet-like state of ignorance with her stuff. I don't know if she was lame before or after, I don't know if she's alive or dead, all I know is that Afro-Harping is the soundtrack of January 2009.

how the hell did i not post in this yet

yes afro-harping is fucking essential for everyone on the planet earth

^Biggest gesture of support I have received on ILM in the past 18 months^

This is a selection of the flyers, programs, posters and documents that were produced to promote the plays of the Ashby Players.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/muycool/sets/72157605517579544/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/muycool/sets/72157605683924140/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/muycool/sets/72157605712829795/

Those archives look great! "The Rubaiyat of Dorothy Ashby" is the one I usually recommend to people, but Afro-Harping is obviously alltime too.

Just got the Dorothy's Harp CD reissue in the mail. Groovin' away right now. Seriously good stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiR8lGWFKEg

Shuffling my ipod this morning and this song popped up and I legitimately thought it was an Alice Coltrane song I had forgotten about.

https://youtu.be/3czbF283X24

I love when I mistake one enigmatic and brilliant female jazz harpist for another.

The Rubaiyat Of Dorothy Ashby is so good, front to back

i can understand mistaking her music for alice coltrane because there aren't too many jazz harpists, but in general dorothy ashby's stuff is recognizable for its grooviness

Several reissues in the last few years, backstory, cover art etc. on a couple of 'em here: Rolling Reissues 2016 And a really good musical profile is archived here (episode of a really good series re a lot of other artists too, incl. jazz women I was totally ignorant of)
https://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/fantastic-jazz-harp-dorothy-ashby/

seems like one of those artists whose catalog is owned by some weird construction of labels/publishers, here's a 2021 compilation by Whispering Grass (??) that's received zero press afaict and I've no idea what it's compiling, but it's great stuff all the same:

Tracklist:
01 – Secret Love
02 – Aeolian Groove
03 – Thou Swell
04 – Charmaine
05 – Stranger in Paradise
06 – Bohemia After Dark
07 – Satin Doll
08 – You’d Be so Nice to Come Home To
09 – There’s a Small Hotel
10 – Just Had to Tell Somebody
11 – By the Time I Get to Phoenix
12 – Moonlight in Vermont
13 – Autumn in Rome

https://open.spotify.com/album/2m4t3fhsFZ9VPiQJ6PuqXE?si=RreITNk0SrymBbWXgvkGSw