Dorothy Ashby - (PRESALE 5/22/26) Plays For Beautiful People (VINYL) | Mint (M) Mint (M)

    Plays For Beautiful People - Limited 180-Gram Vinyl with Bonus Track [Import]
    (Limited Edition, 180 Gram Vinyl, Bonus Track, Spain - Import)
    Artist: Dorothy Ashby Format: LP Release Date: 5/22/2026 

    Label: Wax Time
    UPC: 8435723702153
    Genre: Vocal
    Release Date: 5/22/2026
    Product ID: WXT2370215.1

    This is an import product
    Weight: .5 lb

Description

The complete album + 1 bonus track - limited edition pressing on 180g vinyl. Considered the most accomplished modern jazz harpist, Dorothy Ashby (1932-1986) established the harp as an improvising jazz instrument, beyond earlier use as a novelty or background orchestral instrument. She proved the harp could play bebop as adeptly as the instruments commonly associated with jazz. Presented here is one of her best albums, Dorothy Ashby Plays for Beautiful People (Prestige PR7639 - also issued as In a Minor Groove), a 1958 quartet session featuring venerable players Frank Wess, Herman Wright, and Roy Haynes. Includes the bonus track track: 'Moonlight In Vermont'.

    Tracks
    Credits

    1 Rascality
    2 You'd Be So Nice to Come Home to
    3 It's a Minor Thing
    4 Yesterdays
    5 Moonlight in Vermont
    6 Bohemia After Dark
    7 Taboo
    8 Autumn in Rome
    9 Alone Together

• Media Condition: Mint (M)
• Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)
• Genre: JAZZ
• Format Type: LP
• Released: 05/22/2026