American jazz saxophonist
Harold Ashby (March 27, 1925, in Kansas City, Missouri , United States – June 13, 2003, in New York City )[ 1] was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. He worked with Duke Ellington 's band, replacing Jimmy Hamilton in 1968.[ 2] In 1959, he recorded backing Willie Dixon on the latter's first album, Willie's Blues .[ 3]
After leaving the Duke Ellington Orchestra in 1975, Ashby worked as a freelance musician and took part in various reunions of Ellington alumni, as well as recording and gigging with his own bands.[ 4]
Ashby suffered a heart attack in May 2003, and was hospitalized before dying at the age of 78, on June 13 that year.[ 1]
Born to Swing: Introducing The Compulsive Tenor Saxophone of Harold Ashby (Columbia, 1960)
Tenor Stuff with Paul Gonsalves (Metronome, 1961)
Scufflin' (Black and Blue, 1978)
Presenting Harold Ashby (Progressive, 1981)
I'm Old Fashioned (Stash, 1991)
What Am I Here For? with Mulgrew Miller, Rufus Reid, Ben Riley (Criss Cross, 1992)
On the Sunny Side of the Street (Timeless, 1992)
Out of Nowhere with Wild Bill Davis (Black and Blue, 1993)
Just for You (Mapleshade)
Eugenie Baird , Eugenie Baird Sings, Duke's Boys Play Ellington (Stereo Spectrum, Design 1959)
Lawrence Brown , Inspired Abandon (Impulse!, 1965)
Benny Golson , Tenor Legacy (Arkadia Jazz, 1998)
Scott Hamilton , Skyscrapers (Concord Jazz, 1980)
Earl Hines , Once Upon a Time (Impulse!, 1966)
Milt Hinton , Laughing at Life (Columbia, 1994)
Butch Miles , Butch's Encore (Famous Door, 1979)
Otis Rush , This One's a Good 'Un (Blue Horizon, 1969)
Bennie Wallace , The Art of the Saxophone (Denon, 1987)
Ben Webster , The Soul of Ben Webster (Verve, 1960)
Studio albums
Harlem Jazz, 1930
Ellingtonia, Vol. One
Ellingtonia, Vol. Two
Braggin' in Brass: The Immortal 1938 Year
The Blanton–Webster Band
Never No Lament: The Blanton-Webster Band
Smoke Rings
Liberian Suite
Great Times!
Masterpieces by Ellington
Ellington Uptown
The Duke Plays Ellington
Ellington '55
Dance to the Duke!
Ellington Showcase
Historically Speaking
Duke Ellington Presents...
The Complete Porgy and Bess
A Drum Is a Woman
Studio Sessions, Chicago 1956
Such Sweet Thunder
Studio Sessions 1957 & 1962
Ellington Indigos
Black, Brown and Beige
Duke Ellington at the Bal Masque
The Cosmic Scene
Happy Reunion
Jazz Party
Anatomy of a Murder
Festival Session
Blues in Orbit
The Nutcracker Suite
Piano in the Background
Swinging Suites by Edward E. and Edward G.
Unknown Session
Piano in the Foreground
Paris Blues
Featuring Paul Gonsalves
Midnight in Paris
Studio Sessions, New York 1962
Afro-Bossa
The Symphonic Ellington
Duke Ellington's Jazz Violin Session
Studio Sessions New York 1963
My People
Ellington '65
Duke Ellington Plays Mary Poppins
Ellington '66
Concert in the Virgin Islands
The Popular Duke Ellington
Far East Suite
The Jaywalker
Studio Sessions, 1957, 1965, 1966, 1967, San Francisco, Chicago, New York
...And His Mother Called Him Bill
Second Sacred Concert
Studio Sessions New York, 1968
Latin American Suite
The Pianist
New Orleans Suite
Orchestral Works
The Suites, New York 1968 & 1970
The Intimacy of the Blues
The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse
Studio Sessions New York & Chicago, 1965, 1966 & 1971
The Intimate Ellington
The Ellington Suites
This One's for Blanton!
Up in Duke's Workshop
Duke's Big 4
Mood Ellington
Live albums Collaborations Compositions by Billy Strayhorn by Juan Tizol
Orchestra members Related
International National Artists Other