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Dorothy Ashby
The Jazz Harpist
(Fresh Sound)
DOROTHY ASHBY (1932-86) called one of her albums Hip Harp, and it wasn’t easy to encourage her very volatile instrument to become “hip.”
But she did it, and the proof is here in this marvellous reissue, a box set of three records which take in almost her complete recordings.
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