Dorothy Ashby
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Good morning.
Today we’re listening to Dorothy Ashby, an American harpist active in the mid-20th century. Ashby grew up in Detroit and started out playing jazz piano. By age 20, she’d adopted the harp as her primary instrument, at a time when the harp was squarely a classical instrument to jazz fans. She proved the harp could lead bands beautifully on al…