Jazz Harpists: The music of Dorothy Ashby
Alphabet City 40 W. North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesYoko Suzuki has created a brand new series of jazz concerts at City of Asylum that combine her saxophone skills with her expertise in ethnomusicology. This year Yoko explores the history of female jazz harpists / composers and the rarely heard contributions they made to the jazz scene. The first concert in a series of three spotlights the music of Dorothy Ashby.