The mesmerizing 1958 jazz harp classic. Taken from the original mono tapes.<\/p>\n
Dorothy Ashby was probably the greatest\u2014and certainly the most swinging\u2014jazz harpist of all time, re-purposing an instrument best known for ethereal glissandos into a fully versatile voice in combo settings, capable of providing both instrumental embroidery and rhythmic drive. But she was always fighting an uphill battle in terms of garnering critical and commercial success; both her gender and the exoticism of her instrument often prevented her from being taken seriously among the hidebound environs of late \u201850s and \u201860s jazz. But it is that very uniqueness of her sound and station in the jazz world that has made her one of the most collectible musicians of her era, as her music has been sampled and celebrated by modern-day hip hop and world music artists (e.g. Jurassic Five, Bonobo) alike. In a Minor Groove is one of two albums she made in 1958 with flautist\/saxophonist Frank Wess, and it is a marvel; backed by fellow Detroit native Herman Wright on bass and the great Roy Haynes on drums, she and Wess weave mesmerizing melodic threads through standards like \u201cAlone Together\u201d and \u201cYesterdays.\u201d But perhaps the most amazing track is \u201cBohemia After Dark,\u201d which displays Ashby\u2019s uncanny ability to turn her harp into a rhythm guitar! For this first-ever domestic black vinyl reissue of In a Minor Groove, we are using the original mono sources\u2014not the rechanneled stereo and jumbled track listing that showed up on Prestige\u2019s later repackaging called Dorothy Ashby Plays for Beautiful People. Original album art with Ira Gitler\u2019s sleeve notes, too.<\/p>\n
A1 Rascallity
\nA2 You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To
\nA3 It’s A Minor Thing
\nA4 Yesterdays
\nB1 Bohemia After Dark
\nB2 Taboo
\nB3 Autumn In Rome
\nB4 Alone Together<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":59301,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[122,107],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-64849","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-jazz-fusion-en","7":"product_cat-new","8":"pa_formaatti-lp-en","9":"pa_kaytetty-uusi-2nd-hand","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"taxable","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshgarbage.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/64849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshgarbage.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshgarbage.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshgarbage.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshgarbage.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshgarbage.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=64849"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshgarbage.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=64849"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshgarbage.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=64849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}