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Vinony's link graph records 127 inbound references to Dorothy Ashby, and connects out to harp, California and Michigan.
It sits within the topics 1932 births, 1986 deaths and 20th-century African-American women singers.
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1932-08-06
- Active to
- 1986-04-13
Discography
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- 390,266
- Total plays
- 4,537,987
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Dorothy Ashby (Dorothy Jeanne Thompson, August 6, 1932 – April 13, 1986) was an American jazz harpist and composer. Hailed as one of the most "unjustly under-loved jazz greats of the 1950's/60's" and the "most accomplished modern jazz harpist," Ashby established the harp as an improvising jazz instrument, beyond earlier use as a novelty or background orchestral instrument, proving the harp could play bebop as adeptly as the instruments commonly associated with jazz, such as the saxophone or pian
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jeanne
- Family name
- Thompson
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Detroit
- Place of death
- Santa Monica
- Occupation
- harpist
- Genre
- hard bop
- Instrument
- double bass
- Record label
- Philips Records
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- date of birth
- 1932-08-06
- date of death
- 1986-04-13
- ethnic group
- African Americans
- birth name
- Dorothy Jeanne Thompson
- cause of death
- cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
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- Art+Feminism
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