DOROTHY ASHBY

"In a 1983 interview with W. Royal Stokes for his book Living the Jazz Life, she remarked of her career, 'Not a lot of women are becoming known as jazz players. ... The audiences I was trying to reach were not interested in the harp, period—classical or otherwise—and they were certainly not interested in seeing a black woman playing the harp.'" [Wikipedia]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KazJnDbRU4A

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DOROTHY ASHBY

"In a 1983 interview with W. Royal Stokes for his book Living the Jazz Life, she remarked of her career, 'Not a lot of women are becoming known as jazz players. ... The audiences I was trying to reach were not interested in the harp, period—classical or otherwise—and they were certainly not interested in seeing a black woman playing the harp.'" [Wikipedia]

#BlackMastodon #BlackFriday #DorothyAshby #BlackJazzHarpist #JazzComposer #Genius

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tea6_NMyu0Y&list=PLRQKT-Cu2_2TvNFfQPkzzDiIs3Ta0efau