| Dorothy's Harp | |
| Type: | Studio |
| Artist: | Dorothy Ashby |
| Cover: | Dorothy’s Harp - album cover.jpg |
| Border: | yes |
| Released: | 1969 |
| Recorded: | March 1969 |
| Studio: | Ter Mar Studios, Chicago. |
| Genre: | Jazz, Soul-Jazz |
| Length: | 35:03 |
| Label: | Cadet LPS 825 |
| Producer: | Richard Evans |
| Chronology: | Dorothy Ashby |
| Prev Title: | Afro-Harping |
| Prev Year: | 1968 |
| Next Title: | The Rubaiyat of Dorothy Ashby |
| Next Year: | 1970 |
Dorothy's Harp is a studio album by jazz harpist Dorothy Ashby released in 1969 via the Cadet label.[1] [2] A few years after releasing Dorothy’s Harp, she started working with Stevie Wonder.[3] [4] The record includes two Brazilian-touched compositions: "Reza" and "Canto de Ossanha". The album was re-released as a CD in 2006.
A reviewer of Dusty Groove wrote "One of the grooviest Dorothy Ashby albums of the 60s – a set that has her already-great jazz work on harp backed by Chicago soul arrangements from Richard Evans – all in a blend that's somewhere in the territory of the Soulful Strings, but even groovier! And as an added bonus, Odell Brown even plays a bit of Fender Rhodes on the record – which sounds especially great! Both Ashby and Evans are at the height of their powers here – mixing together bits of jazz, soul, and trippier elements in a sublime late 60s Cadet Records blend – one that's carried off perfectly on the original tunes "Truth Spoken Here", "Tornado", "Cause I Need It", and "Just Had To Tell Somebody" – but which also sounds great on some of the album's cool covers too! Other titles include Brazilian numbers "Reza" and "Canto De Ossanha" – both of which are transformed in Dorothy's hands – plus "This Girl's In Love", "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", and "Windmills of Your Mind"!".[5]