NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Dorothy Ashby on 22 January 2020. Dorothy Ashby has been played on NTS over 300 times, featured on 285 episodes and was first played on 18 February 2012.

Dorothy Ashby (Dorothy Jeanne Thompson, August 6, 1932 – April 13, 1986) was an American jazz harpist and composer. Hailed as one of the most "unjustly under-loved jazz greats of the 1950's/60's" 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…