Dorothy Ashby – Ashby, Dorothy – LP – Brand New Vinyl (Arrives in 20days)

Considered one of the most unjustly
underrated jazz greats of the 1950s,
and certainly the most accomplished
modern jazz harpist ever, Dorothy
Ashby (1932-1986) established by
herself the harp as an improvising
jazz instrument. While until then the
instrument had been just used as a
novelty mixed with the sound of a
string orchestra (as on Charlie Parker
with Strings in 1950), Ashby proved
the harp could play bebop as adeptly
as any other instrument. Despite
being titled just with her name, the
1961 LP presented here wasn’t her
debut album (she had previously
issued three other starting with Jazz
Harpist in 1954), but her fourth.