Soft Winds (album) explained

Soft Winds
Type:	Studio
Artist:	Dorothy Ashby
Cover:	Soft Winds.jpg
Released:	1961
Recorded:	August 15 & 16, 1961 Plaza Sounds Studios, New York City
Genre:	Jazz
Label:	Jazzland JLP 61
Producer:	John Levy
Chronology:	Dorothy Ashby
Prev Title:	In a Minor Groove
Prev Year:	1958
Next Title:	Dorothy Ashby
Next Year:	1962

Soft Winds (subtitled The Swinging Harp of Dorothy Ashby) is an album by jazz harpist Dorothy Ashby recorded in 1961 and released on the Jazzland label.^[1] The album takes its name from Goodman's 1940 standard "Soft Winds" which features as the first track.

Reception

Users on Allmusic have awarded the album an average of 3 stars.^[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Dorothy Ashby except as indicated

1. "Soft Winds" (Benny Goodman) – 2:56
2. "Wild Is the Wind" (Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington) – 4:21
3. "The Man I Love" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:56
4. "My Ship" (Kurt Weill, Ira Gershwin) – 3:40
5. "Love Is Here to Stay" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:42
6. "I've Never Been in Love Before" (Frank Loesser) – 2:27
7. "With Strings Attached" – 2:25
8. "Laura" (Johnny Mercer, David Raksin) – 2:59
9. "The Guns of Navarone" (Tiomkin) – 2:15
10. "Misty" (Erroll Garner) – 2:42
11. "The Gypsy in My Soul" (Clay Boland, Moe Jaffe) – 2:49

Personnel

• Dorothy Ashby – harp
• Terry Pollard – piano, vibraphone
• Herman Wright – bass
• Jimmy Cobb – drums

Production

• John Levy – producer
• Ray Fowler – engineer

External links

• A Dorothy Ashby Discography

Notes and References

1. http://www.jazzdisco.org/riverside-records/catalog-jazzland-series/#jlp-61 Riverside Records discography
2. http://www.allmusic.com/album/soft-winds-mw0000906569 Allmusic Review