Cover Girl Ashley Jackson

• 1 Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood 04:06
• 2 I’m Every Woman 04:40
• 3 Udhero Na 05:35
• 4 Dreaming My Dreams 04:05
• Total Runtime 18:26

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Die von Kritikern gefeierte Harfenistin Ashley Jackson präsentiert eine EP mit künstlerischen Arrangements von Musikstücken vier Ikonen der Popmusik: Whitney Houston, Nina Simone, Dolores O’Riordan (die verstorbene Leadsängerin von The Cranberries) und die pakistanische Sängerin und Komponistin Arooj Aftab. Cover Girl ist eine Hommage an die furchtlosen Frauen, die die Popmusiklandschaft geprägt haben. Mit brandneuen Arrangements würdigt Ashley Jackson jene Künstlerinnen, die sich den Grenzen des Genres widersetzt haben und sie zu ihrem eigenen Verständnis davon inspiriert haben, was mit der Sprache der Musik möglich ist.

„Cover Girl hat es mir ermöglicht, mich mit der Tiefe und Komplexität der menschlichen Stimme auseinanderzusetzen und zu erforschen, wie ich mich mit den verschiedenen Genres, die ich schon immer geliebt habe, beschäftigen kann. Was ich an diesem Projekt liebe, ist, dass es mir die Möglichkeit gegeben hat, mein freies, authentisches Selbst zu sein“, sagt Jackson.

Ashley Jackson, Harfe

Ashley Jackson
Praised for her “soulful” and “eloquent” playing (Musical America), harpist Ashley Jackson enjoys a multifaceted career as a highly sought-after musician and collaborator in New York and beyond.

As a soloist, she has performed at Lincoln Center, Celebrate Brooklyn! and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She has also performed with the New York Philharmonic, Metropolis Ensemble, the Qatar Philharmonic, and is the principal harpist of NOVUS NY, the contemporary music orchestra of Trinity Wall Street led by Grammy-nominated conductor Julian Wachner. She is a member of the Harlem Chamber Players, with whom she has developed a number of projects, including her first film, In Song and Spirit and the Harlem Walking Tour Series.

Throughout her academic and professional careers, Ashley has demonstrated a commitment to diversity and inclusion within higher education and the performing arts, firmly believing that a deeper understanding of cultural and ethnic diversity is critical to intellectual and artistic development. As a recipient of the Theodore Presser Award, she pursued her doctoral research on black female composer Margaret Bonds and her collaboration with Langston Hughes, and presented her findings in lectures at the Studio Museum of Harlem, WMP Concert Hall, and the University of North Carolina. Her research culminated in the release of the album, The Ballad of the Brown King and Selected Songs (Avie Records) on which she is a featured performer, as well as the author of the liner notes. Her speaking engagements have included “1960: Margaret Bonds and a Message for Civil Rights” (Juilliard), “Affinities: Margaret Bonds and Langston Hughes,” (Studio Museum of Harlem) and “Representation as Resistance: How an Activist Orchestra Redresses the Push-out of Black Practitioners from Classical Music” (Harvard University). As a writer, her works have appeared on NewMusicBox (“The Cultural Citizen: How Classical Music Got Me Woke") as well as in the International Journal of Women in Music (“Margaret Bonds and The Ballad of the Brown King: A Historical Overview”). She is currently an Assistant Professor and the Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Music Department at Hunter College, where she teaches chamber music, harp, and courses such as the Arts in New York City.

Ashley holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Juilliard School, a Master of Music degree from the Yale School of Music, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University.

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