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Soft Winds (album)

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Released
  
1961

Release date
  
1961

Label
  
Compulsion

Artist
  
Dorothy Ashby

Producer
  
John Levy

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
August 15 & 16, 1961 Plaza Sounds Studios, New York City

Soft Winds (1961)
  
The Fantastic Jazz Harp of Dorothy Ashby (1965)

Dorothy Ashby albums
  
The Fantastic Jazz Har, In a Minor Groove, Dorothy's Harp, The Jazz Harpist, Django/Misty

Dorothy ashby soft winds


Soft Winds (subtitled The Swinging Harp of Dorothy Ashby) is an album by jazz harpist Dorothy Ashby recorded in 1961 and released on the Jazzland label. The album takes its name from Goodman's 1940 standard "Soft Winds" which features as the first track.

Contents

Soft winds


Reception

Allmusic reviewed the album awarding it 3 stars.

Track listing

All compositions by Dorothy Ashby except as indicated

  1. "Soft Winds" (Benny Goodman) - 2:56
  2. "Wild Is the Wind" (Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington) - 4:21
  3. "The Man I Love" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 2:56
  4. "My Ship" (Kurt Weill, Ira Gershwin) - 3:40
  5. "Love Is Here to Stay" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 2:42
  6. "I've Never Been in Love Before" (Frank Loesser) - 2:27
  7. "With Strings Attached" - 2:25
  8. "Laura" (Johnny Mercer, David Raksin) - 2:59
  9. "The Guns of Navarone" (Tiomkin) - 2:15
  10. "Misty" (Erroll Garner) - 2:42
  11. "The Gypsy in My Soul" (Clay Boland, Moe Jaffe) - 2:49

Personnel

  • Dorothy Ashby - harp
  • Terry Pollard - piano, vibraphone
  • Herman Wright - bass
  • Jimmy Cobb - drums

    • Production

  • John Levy - producer
  • Ray Fowler - engineer

    • Songs

    1Soft Winds3:02
    2Wild Is the Wind4:29
    3The Man I Love3:01

    References

    Soft Winds (album) Wikipedia
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