Dorothy Ashby/Frank Wess: In A Minor Groove (clear with red, green & purple swirl vinyl) [REAL GONE MUSIC]

Why you'll love it

Real Gone Music's mono reissue, on clear vinyl swirled with red, green and purple. It's Dorothy Ashby's 1958 New Jazz session with Frank Wess, harp and flute together on "Rascality", "Bohemia After Dark" and "Autumn in Rome".

This edition

• Clear vinyl with red, green and purple swirls
• Mono
• Eight tracks

About the album

Dorothy Ashby made the harp swing, and on In a Minor Groove she does it with ease. Recorded in 1958 for the New Jazz label (and later reissued as Dorothy Ashby Plays for Beautiful People), it pairs her with Frank Wess, whose flute floats alongside her runs in a light, swinging small-group setting.

Her own "Rascality" opens it, then come standards like "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To", "Yesterdays" and "Alone Together", with Oscar Pettiford's "Bohemia After Dark" and "Taboo" to keep things moving. AllMusic called a collection including this album a project "unique to jazz and modern music". Harp and flute: it sounds like a wedding booking and plays like a nightclub.

Tracklist

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Out September 4, 2026 on Real Gone Music (cat# LP-RGM-2203C), a reissue of the 1958 album.