Harold Ashby
Harold Ashby was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. He worked with Duke Ellington's band, having replaced Jimmy Hamilton in 1968. In 1959, he recorded backing Willie Dixon on the latter's debut album, Willie's Blues.
Ashby worked as a freelance musician after leaving the Duke Ellington Orchestra in 1975, and took part in various reunions of Ellington alumni, as well as recording and gigging with his own bands.Discography
As leader
- Born to Swing: Introducing The Compulsive Tenor Saxophone of Harold Ashby
- Tenor Stuff with Paul Gonsalves
- Scufflin '
- Presenting Harold Ashby
- I'm Old Fashioned
- What Am I Here For? with Mulgrew Miller, Rufus Reid, Ben Riley
- On the Sunny Side of the Street
- Out of Nowhere with Wild Bill Davis
- Just for You
As sideman
- Eugenie Baird, Eugenie Baird Sings, Duke's Boys Play Ellington
- Lawrence Brown, Inspired Abandon
- Benny Golson, Tenor Legacy
- Scott Hamilton, Skyscrapers
- Earl Hines, Once Upon a Time
- Milt Hinton, Laughing at Life
- Butch Miles, Butch's Encore
- Otis Rush, This One's a Good 'Un
- Bennie Wallace, The Art of the Saxophone
- Ben Webster, The Soul of Ben Webster
