(Cool, Hard Bop, Soul-Jazz) [LP] [24/192] Dorothy Ashby - The Rubaiyat of Dorothy Ashby - 1970/2021, FLAC (tracks)

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Analyzed: Dorothy Ashby / The Rubaiyat of Dorothy Ashby
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR13 -1.68 dB -17.89 dB 5:21 01-Myself When Young
DR14 -1.80 dB -18.76 dB 4:02 02-For Some We Loved
DR10 -2.91 dB -16.63 dB 4:25 03-Wax and Wane
DR11 -2.77 dB -16.50 dB 2:31 04-Drink
DR13 -1.62 dB -17.75 dB 3:59 05-Wine
DR11 -3.81 dB -18.34 dB 2:55 06-Dust
DR13 -2.15 dB -19.23 dB 3:41 07-Joyful Grass and Grape
DR10 -3.19 dB -16.48 dB 3:35 08-Shadow Shapes
DR11 -3.41 dB -17.65 dB 3:13 09-Heaven and Hell
DR12 -2.17 dB -17.70 dB 5:39 10-The Moving Finger
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Number of tracks: 10
Official DR value: DR12
Samplerate: 192000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 4840 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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By the time she entered Ter-Mar Studios to record her third and final album for Cadet in late 1969, Dorothy Ashby had spent the better part of two decades convincing the world that she was a jazz harpist. But if The Rubáiyát of Dorothy Ashby makes anything clear, it is this: The harp was but one of her many means, and jazz was far from her only end.
Making good on the promise of Rubáiyát’s cover, here the fantastic jazz harpist just as often— just as convincingly—presides over the koto, a 13-stringed zither of arguable Japanese origin, to lay down her slinky solos. At times it feels as if Ashby, so long an outsider herself, is pulling the misfits of the bandstand up for their own overdue time to shine: On what other jazz record—or any slice of wax, for that matter—does a soloing harp tag out to a bass flute, in turn to a vibraphone? A koto to an oboe? Where else does the kalimba, here drenched in watery wah-wah, outnumber saxophone solo outings three-to-one? But the medium is not the message, and The Rubáiyát of Dorothy Ashby would be exquisite fluff if not for its sweat-breaking interplay, ground upon which all instruments, all players share equal footing to pluck, plink, and honk.

Dorothy Ashby - harp, koto, vocals
Lenny Druss - flute, oboe, piccolo flute (#1-5,10)
Cliff Davis - alto saxophone (#10)
Stu Katz - vibraphone (#1,3,4,6,8-10)
Cash McCall - guitar (#10)
Fred Katz - kalimba (#2,3,10)
Ed Green - violin (#2)
Unidentified orchestra arranged and conducted by Richard Evans.
Recorded at Ter-Mar Studios, Chicago in November 1969 - January 1970.