In a Minor Groove LP

Nobody expected a harp to swing like a saxophone, but Dorothy Ashby made it happen, and by the time she cut In a Minor Groove with Frank Wess in 1958 at Rudy Van Gelder's Hackensack studio, she'd proven the point on Bob Weinstock's Prestige label; this was her New Jazz debut. Eight tracks pair two Ashby originals with standards by Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Oscar Pettiford and others, and none of it sounds like a novelty act. Real Gone Music's reissue keeps the original mono mix, pressed up on clear vinyl streaked with multicolor swirl.