Artist: Dorothy Ashby
Album: Dorothy's Harp
Genre: Cool, Hard Bop, Soul Jazz
Label: Cadet/Universal Classics & Jazz
Released: 1969/2014
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- By the Time I Get to Phoenix (Webb) - 3:32
- Canto de Ossanha (Powell-DeMoraes) - 3:37
- Love Is Blue (Blackburn-Popp) - 2:53
- Reza (Lobo-Guerra) - 3:02
- This Girl's in Love with You (Bacharach-David) - 2:50
- Truth Spoken Here (Evans) - 2:52
- Toronado (Evans) - 3:07
- The Windmills of Your Mind (Bergman-Bergman-Legrand) - 3:23
- Cause I Need It (Ashby) - 3:02
- Just Had to Tell Somebody (Ashby) - 3:09
- Fool on the Hill (Lennon-McCartney) - 3:41
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- Personnel:
- Dorothy Ashby - harp
- Odell Brown - Fender piano
- Lennie Druss - oboe solo (#9), flute solo (#11)
One of the grooviest Dorothy Ashby albums of the 60s – a set that has her already-great jazz work on harp backed by Chicago soul arrangements from Richard Evans – all in a blend that's somewhere in the territory of the Soulful Strings, but even groovier! And as an added bonus, Odell Brown even plays a bit of Fender Rhodes on the record – which sounds especially great! Both Ashby and Evans are at the height of their powers here – mixing together bits of jazz, soul, and trippier elements in a sublime late 60s Cadet Records blend – one that's carried off perfectly on the original tunes "Truth Spoken Here", "Tornado", "Cause I Need It", and "Just Had To Tell Somebody" – but which also sounds great on some of the album's cool covers too! Other titles include Brazilian numbers "Reza" and "Canto De Ossanha" – both of which are transformed in Dorothy's hands – plus "This Girl's In Love", "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", and "Windmills of Your Mind"!