Irving Ashby
Irving Ashby is a American Guitariste born with Someville (Massachusetts) the December 29th 1920, died with Perris, in California the April 22nd 1987.
II initiates itself with ukulélé, then the guitar with the academy of Boston it plays and records with Lionel Hampton in 1940, Fats Waller in 1943, but it is especially in 1947 that it reaches a certain notoriety in the trio of Nat King Cole until in 1951 then of that of Oscar Peterson (1952).
It ceases the rounds gradually, then the recordings in 1967 to become professor of guitar on the West coast, if one excludes a later meeting in the orchestra of Big Joe Turner.
Between Middle jazz and Bebop, Irving Ashby is liked in the company of leaders of the two schools. Fascinated by the virtuosity of Django Reinhardt, impassioned by the audacity rhythmic of Charlie Christian, sensitive to the new ways of the guitar, it can be also inspired by Masters being expressed on other instruments, Charlie Parker or Lester Young, for example. At the same time solid and flexible guide, it is an inventive improviser.
Its personal discography is, on the other hand, not very important: some 78 turns in 1946 and one microgroove in 1976 (all since its Californian semi-retirement).
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