VOL № C049 — June 2021
Rubáiyát karya Dorothy Ashby
Dorothy Ashby
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By the time she entered Ter-Mar Studios to record her third and final album for Cadet in late 1969, Dorothy Ashby had spent the better part of two decades convincing the world that she was a jazz harpist. But if The Rubáiyát of Dorothy Ashby makes anything clear, it is this: The harp was but one of her many means, and jazz was far from her only end.
Making good on the promise of Rubáiyát’s cover, here the fantastic jazz harpist just as often— just as convincingly—presides over the koto, a 13-stringed zither of arguable Japanese origin, to lay down her slinky solos. At times it feels as if Ashby, so long an outsider herself, is pulling the misfits of the bandstand up for their own overdue time to shine: On what other jazz record—or any slice of wax, for that matter—does a soloin...
LP 1 / Side A
| 1 Myself When Young |
| 2 For Some We Loved |
| 3 Wax And Wane |
| 4 Drink |
| 5 Wine |
LP 1 / Side B
| 1 Dust |
| 2 Joyful Grass And Grape |
| 3 Shadow Shapes |
| 4 Heaven And Hell |
| 5 The Moving Finger |
