# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dorothy-ashby
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:42:23.283Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dorothy-ashby"
name: "Dorothy Ashby"
slug: "dorothy-ashby"
description: "Dorothy Jeanne Thompson, better known as Dorothy Ashby, was an American jazz harpist, singer and composer. Hailed as one of the most \"unjustly under loved jazz greats of the 1950s\" and the \"most accomplished modern jazz harpist,\" Ashby established the harp as an improvising jazz instrument, beyond earlier use as a novelty or background orchestral instrument, proving the harp could play bebop as adeptly as the instruments commonly associated with jazz, such as the saxophone or piano."
tagline: "American jazz harpist (1932-1986)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b8/Dorothy_Ashby_%2B_Autograph.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1932-08-06"
deathDate: "1986-04-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.84
  momentum:             3.516949152542373
  historical:           15.17448666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/Dorothy-Ashby-Jazz-Harp-Genius-and-More-182104178547123"
    handle:    "Dorothy-Ashby-Jazz-Harp-Genius-and-More-182104178547123"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1184349/"
    handle:    "nm1184349"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/0dAZ2slrElfR0Y5flcoSPt"
    handle:    "0dAZ2slrElfR0Y5flcoSPt"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "دوروثي أشبي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دوروثى اشبى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Ashby"
    title: "Dorothy Ashby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Ashby"
    title: "Dorothy Ashby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Ashby"
    title: "Dorothy Ashby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Ashby"
    title: "Dorothy Ashby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Ashby"
    title: "Dorothy Ashby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "درتی اشبی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Ashby"
    title: "Dorothy Ashby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Ashby"
    title: "Dorothy Ashby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ドロシー・アシュビー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Ashby"
    title: "Dorothy Ashby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Ashby"
    title: "Dorothy Ashby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Ashby"
    title: "Dorothy Ashby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Дороті Ешбі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dorothy Ashby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump