Afro-Harping

by Dorothy Ashby

Afro-Harping cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: July 1968
  • Label: Cadet
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 35:39
  • Community rating: 3.96/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Produced by Richard Evans in Chicago, this landmark instrumental record brilliantly contextualizes the harp within the driving grooves of soul jazz and funk. Ashby's masterful playing is enveloped by lush orchestral arrangements and deep rhythmic basslines, creating an effortlessly cool and highly influential sonic palette that would be heavily sampled in modern hip-hop.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, instrumental, rhythmic, harp, funky

Tracklist

  1. Soul Vibrations (3:20)
  2. Games (3:55)
  3. Action Line (3:41)
  4. Lonely Girl (3:13)
  5. Life Has Its Trials (4:28)
  6. Afro-Harping (2:59)
  7. Little Sunflower (3:45)
  8. Theme From "Valley Of The Dolls" (3:33)
  9. Come Live With Me (2:37)
  10. The Look Of Love (4:06)

Credits

  • Dorothy Ashby - primary artist, written-by
  • Dick LaPalm - supervised by [album supervision]
  • Livingston & Evans - written-by
  • Neal Hefti - written-by
  • Phil Upchurch - written-by
  • Freddie Hubbard - written-by
  • Andr茅 Previn - written-by
  • Dory Previn - written-by

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