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Dorothy Ashby

real name Dorothy Jeanne Ashby

Detroit, United States · 1932-08-06 – 1986-04-13

Dorothy Ashby is credited on 536 releases across 126 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1957–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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536

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126

Albums

8

Decades active

549

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American jazz harpist
Born August 6, 1932 in Detroit, Michigan, died April 13, 1986 in Santa Monica, California
Worked with Stanley Turrentine, Wendell Marshall, Shirley Scott, Art Taylor, Stan Getz, Jimmy Cobb and others. She was taught to play the harp by Velma Froude at Cass Technical High School in Detroit, who would teach Alice McLeod (better known as Alice Coltrane) a couple of years later. She had two music publishing houses and.

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Credited work

536 releases · 126 albums · active 1957–2025

  • Performance · 769
  • Other credits · 15
  • Production · 8

Studios: Hollywood Sound Recorders · Wally Heider Recording Studio, Los Angeles · The Burbank Studios · Westlake Studios

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