Author: Olu Dara

Format: Audiobook

Release Date: 17-02-1998

Details: Amazon.ca Over the last two decades, Olu Dara has been known principally as a regular collaborator with jazz reedsman David Murray, playing the cornet. All of this time, he's been operating a blues sideline, his talents also including a stark, Taj Mahal-influenced vocal delivery, coupled with an earthy amplifier-cranked guitar style. He can do it all, equally well. On this long-time-coming debut, he makes an inspired shackling together of Caribbean, African and New Orleans styles (these three being the very basics of its extremely varied ingredients). He works with either a rootsy sextet or as a grainy, sepia-shot one-man band, overdubbing cornet, guitar, drums and percussion on "Zora" and "Natchez Shopping Blues", everything recorded up-close, so we're sitting plumb in the middle of his intimately clanking songs. His son, Nas, raps on "Jungle Jay", with Melba Joyce leading the partying backing vocal posse throughout. "Your lips are juicy", succinctly goes one Afro-chant chorus, while further Caribbean harmonising wafts through from "Okra"'s steamy kitchen session. This was the genre stewpot of its year, maybe even the decade. --Martin Longley Product Description In the World... is acclaimed coronetist/guitarist/singer Olu Dara's debut as a bandleader. The tracks on this evocative collection are reminiscent of the past, simply because no one sounds like this anymore; put another way, this album so effortlessly blends Mississippi blues, traditional jazz and African styles that it is effectively a genre unto itself. While Olu serves as narrator for most of the set, his son - multi-platinum hip hop star Nas - does the honors on the track "Jungle."

UPC: 075678307720

EAN: 0075678307720

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: New