DOROTHY ASHBY & FRANK WESS - In A Minor Groove D4VD ”Recorded throughout 2024 at One

”Recorded throughout 2024 at One Cue Studio in Burbank

Pere Ubu re-invented the mainstream (again) and carved graffiti on the expectations of the alternative cognoscenti with an album that was “as effective as ever in the brooding atmosphere department

but also as a wider force for social and political change in the age of the individual

Remastered from the original tapes by Kevin Metcalf and then  reissued for the first time in 2009 as part of the WORLD IN YOUR EYES 3CD set on Reactor

DOROTHY ASHBY & FRANK WESS - In A Minor Groove D4VD ”Recorded throughout 2024 at OneDorothy Ashby was arguably the greatest and certainly the most swinging jazz harpist of all time, transforming an instrument best known for ethereal glissandos into a fully versatile voice in small group jazz, capable of providing both intricate melodic textures and rhythmic drive. Yet both her gender and the unconventional nature of her instrument often prevented her from being taken seriously within the jazz establishment of the late 1950s and '60s.