Rob Price
Gutbrain Records
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2014 February 21 • Friday

We cast our net for Betty Glamann records and also caught this Dorothy Ashby album.

This might be my favorite Ashby recording. I like her best in a small ensemble without flute. Here she's joined on the front line by vibes player Terry Pollard while Herman Wright and Jimmy Cobb make up the rhythm section.

(It's unusual for a jazz quartet from this time to have even one woman in it. To have two is extremely rare!)

The highlight of the record is the swinging version of Dimitri Tiomkin's theme music for The Guns of Navarone. The themes from Laura and Wild Is the Wind also get the treatment, but those are more frequently covered.