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String Along with Dorothy!

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A music with as complicated and rich a history as jazz is always going to be subject to rediscoveries and reappraisals and we wouldn't want it any other way. This fortnight's episode focuses on a pioneering practitioner on that truly rare avis, the jazz harp. Yes, we're diving into the early work of Dorothy Ashby in honor of a new box set celebrating her first six albums. So throw aside those conceptions of cartoon animals going to heaven and bourgeoisie travelers grooving at the Holiday Inn and join us as we string along with Dorothy.

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  • Discussion of Dorothy Ashby's album The Jazz Harpist (Regent) Hip Harp (Prestige) and In A Minor Groove (New Jazz) 8:05
  • Discussion of Dorothy Asbhy's album Soft Winds (Jazzland) 27:41
  • Discussion of Dorothy Ashby's album Dorothy Ashby (Argo) 36:26
  • Discussion of Dorothy Asbhy's album The Fantastic Harp (Atlantic) 46:33
  • Pop Matters—in which Mike discusses Gary Burton's autobiography 1:01:17

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