Hip Harp

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Hip Harp
Hip Harp.jpg
Studio album by Dorothy Ashby with Frank Wess
Released 1958
Recorded March 21, 1958
Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
Genre Jazz
Label Prestige
PR 7140
Producer Bob Weinstock
Dorothy Ashby chronology
The Jazz Harpist
(1957)The Jazz Harpist1957
Hip Harp
(1958)
In a Minor Groove
(1958)In a Minor Groove1958

Hip Harp (also released as The Best of Dorothy Ashby) is an album by jazz harpist Dorothy Ashby recorded in 1958 and released on the Prestige label.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4.5/5 stars[2]

Allmusic reviewed the album awarding it 4½ stars.[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Dorothy Ashby except as indicated

  1. "Pawky" - 7:07
  2. "Moonlight in Vermont" (John Blackburn, Karl Suessdorf) - 5:17
  3. "Back Talk" - 5:07
  4. "Dancing in the Dark" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) - 4:45
  5. "Charmaine" (Lew Pollack, Erno Rapee) - 4:04
  6. "Jollity" - 3:38
  7. "There's a Small Hotel" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 5:53

Personnel

Production

References

  1. Prestige Records discography accessed May 9, 2013
  2. 2.0 2.1 Allmusic Review accessed May 9, 2013

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