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There is also a bass player and a drummer but they are not credited. It sounds like nothing else out there. Retrieved 17 June Jazz , Jazz fusion , Ethno jazz , Experimental jazz. For her part, Ashby played her harp, but she also brought the Japanese koto into the mix as well as her voice. And this is a head record. The Rubaiyat of Dorothy Ashby".

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The poem that commences "For Some We Loved" gives way to a percussion and koto workout that comes right from the modal blues.

The lithe beauty on display in her voice and the in-the-pocket backup of the rhythm section is flawless and infectious. Recording Date November, - January, Her previous offerings on Prestige were pure, hard bop jazz with serious session players soloing all over them.

Retrieved 5 May It's as if each track, from "Joyful Grass and Grape," "Shadow Shapes," and "Heaven and Hell," enter from the world of exotica, from someplace so far outside jazz and western popular musics, and by virtue of Ashby 's vocal and harp, are brought back inside, echoing the blues and jazz -- check out thee koto solo on this cut, by way of the symbiotic communication between Evans and the musicians. Retrieved 17 June Articles with asyby description Articles with hAudio microformats.

AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Reviewing the album for AllMusicThom Jurek writes: She made recordings for Dorthy and Jazzland before landing at Chess in with Afro-Harping which began her partnership with arranger Richard Evans.

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Dorothy Ashby albums albums Cadet Records albums. There is no kitsch value in this music, it's serious, poetic, and utterly ingenious musically. Jazz Latin New Age.

Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully. With a band that included a host of percussion instruments -- Stu Katz played vibes and kalimba, and Fred Katz played a second kalimba, Cash McCall was enlisted as guitarist, Cliff Davis played alto saxophone, and Lenny Druss ot flute, oboe, bass flute, and piccolo.

There is also a bass player and a drummer but they are not credited.

It is exotic, mysterious, laid-back, and full of gentle grooves and soul. Retrieved from " https: JazzJazz fusionEthno jazzExperimental jazz. For Some We Loved. Time and space are suspended and new dimensions open up for anyone willing to take this killer little set on and let it spill its magic into the mind canal through the ears.

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Depending on how much of a jazz purist you are will give you a side to debate the place of this set in Ashby's catalogue. Depending on how much of a jazz purist you are will give you a side to debate the place of this set in Ashby 's catalogue.

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On this set for Cadet, she again teams with Evans who wears the hats of producer, arranger, and conductor of a string section and the record goes in a somewhat different direction. And it only gets better from here. The set ends on its greatest o, "The Moving Finger.

The Rubaiyat of Dorothy Ashby subtitled Original compositions inspired by the words of Omar Khayyam, arranged and conducted by Richard Evans is an album by jazz harpist Dorothy Ashby recorded in late and early and released on the Cadet label. The Rubaiyat of Dorothy Ashby".

Streams Videos All Posts. For those who remain open, this may be her greatest moment on record. This album is easily one of Ashby's greatest, and it's dedicated to the writings of Omar Khayyam — one of the forces guiding Dorothy's more spiritual sound at the end of the 60s, clearly opened up in a way that's not unlike the direction of Alice Coltrane's work, but a lot more focused and a lot more funky!

Evans adds strings for drama playing repeating two-note vamps before Katz and his vibes take the thing into outer space.