Dorothy Ashby

harp

Dorothy Ashby was a jazz harpist from Detroit; Barry names her, with Harold McKinney, among the young Detroit musicians whose first teacher was the preacher Neptune Holloway.

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What Barry says

Barry says the first teacher for young Detroit musicians like Harold McKinney, Dorothy Ashby and himself was a preacher, Neptune Holloway, who taught many of them.

Barry Harris, Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program ¶102

He remembers seeing a photograph of Holloway’s pupils that he thinks showed Ashby, himself and Harold McKinney; some of them, he says, took classical lessons from the preacher.

Barry Harris on WKCR-FM ¶158

In his own words

the first teacher for us in Detroit like Harold McKinney and, Dorothy Ashby – our first teacher was a preacher. His name was Neptune Holloway.

Barry Harris, Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program. On his first music teachers ¶102

I saw a picture somewhere, and I think Dorothy Ashby was in that picture, myself, Harold McKinney who was another piano player from Detroit

Barry Harris on WKCR-FM. On Neptune Holloway’s pupils ¶158

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In the interviews and notes

Barry, Smithsonian oral history 2010 Barry, in his own words
Barry names Neptune Holloway, a preacher, as the first teacher for Detroit youngsters such as Harold McKinney, Dorothy Ashby and himself.
Barry Harris, Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program ¶102
Barry, phone interview with Ted Panken for DownBeat, 2000 Barry, in his own words
Barry says many of them took lessons from Holloway, some of them classical, and recalls a photograph he thinks includes Ashby, himself and Harold McKinney.
Barry Harris on WKCR-FM ¶158
Ted Panken, DownBeat feature 2000 A scholar
Panken lists the harpist Dorothy Ashby in Barry’s Detroit peer group, alongside players such as Tommy Flanagan, Terry Pollard, Thad Jones, Kenny Burrell and Paul Chambers.
Ted Panken, For Barry Harris’ 82nd Birthday ¶5
Brian de Lima, dissertation 2017 A scholar
De Lima lists Ashby among Barry’s early teachers and among the Detroit musicians whose teaching shaped him. In the oral history he cites, Barry names her as a fellow pupil of Neptune Holloway rather than a teacher.
Brian Jude de Lima, Reanimating Dissonance: Cultivating the Antecedents of Barry Harris’ Concept of Movement as a Multidimensional Pedagogical Tool for Ontario Post-Secondary Jazz Curricula ¶687Brian Jude de Lima, Reanimating Dissonance: Cultivating the Antecedents of Barry Harris’ Concept of Movement as a Multidimensional Pedagogical Tool for Ontario Post-Secondary Jazz Curricula ¶1345Barry Harris, Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program ¶102