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"Come Live With Me" by Dorothy Ashby

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Posted on May 18, 2022 at 21:33:52
Krav Maga
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 "Come Live With Me" by jazz harpist and composer Dorothy Ashby

What year, you ask?

1968
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RE: "Come Live With Me" by Dorothy Ashby, posted on May 19, 2022 at 16:01:12
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 Nice album from Dorothy Ashby in 1968: "Afro-Harping." I lived in Detroit during that period and Dorothy gigged everywhere around town.

It's really frustrating that there are no sidemen credits to be found anywhere. I'm guessing flute/piccolo is Frank Wess, although fellow Detroiter Yusef Lateef is a possibility.

There's a strange oboe-sounding-reedy keyboard in the mix. Farfisa? Or maybe in fact an oboe?

Recorded and released on the Chicago-based Cadet label.

 

"It's really frustrating that there are no sidemen credits to be found anywhere.", posted on May 19, 2022 at 16:35:05
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 Wikipedia lists the additional personnel as "Unidentified orchestra arranged and conducted by Richard Evans". Don't know if that gives you a better idea of who the sidemen may have been.
"All thoughts are prey to some beast" - Bill Callahan

"I'll be your mirror
Reflect what you are" - Lou Reed

"Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth." - Albert Einstein

 

Lots of interesting info on Evans here..., posted on May 20, 2022 at 09:09:37
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 He had his group of main players around Cadet/Chess and WAS a main player it seems.

Thank for the OP, been years since I heard any Afro Harping!

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