Hip Harp

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]

Hip Harp
Studio album by
Dorothy Ashby with Frank Wess
Released1958
RecordedMarch 21, 1958
Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
GenreJazz
Length35:51
LabelPrestige
PR 7140
ProducerBob Weinstock
Dorothy Ashby chronology
The Jazz Harpist
(1957)		 Hip Harp
(1958)		 In a Minor Groove
(1958)

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
Sputnikmusic4.1/5[3]

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. Allmusic Review accessed May 9, 2013
  3. "Dorothy Ashby: Hip Harp". Sputnikmusic. sputnikmusic.com. Retrieved 5 May 2018.
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