Harold Ashby

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. Ashby suffered a heart attack in May 2003, and was hospitalized before dying at the age of 78, on June 13 that year.

• 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) • The Viking (Gemini Records 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)

Harold Ashby is recorded with the occupation jazz musician. Classed in the genre jazz. Recorded as clarinetist, saxophonist, composer and musician.