Dorothy Jeanne Thompson, better known as Dorothy Ashby, was an American jazz harpist, singer, and composer. Hailed as one of the most "unjustly under-loved jazz greats of the 1950s" and the "most accomplished modern jazz harpist," Ashby established the harp as an improvising jazz instrument, beyond earlier use as a novelty or background orchestral instrument, proving the harp could play bebop as adeptly as the instruments commonly associated with jazz, such as the saxophone or piano.
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