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	Olu Dara
		Olu Dara is a multi-talented entertainer who has been performing since he was 8 years old.
		Born (1941) in Natchez, Miss, Olu landed in New York in 1963 after a stint in the US Navy which took him all over the world.
		In Olu's current repertoire, you will find a true fusion based on the Blues, but containing elements of African, Caribbean, R'n'B, and yes, even Jazz (but he won't admit to that) musical styles.
	www.oludara.info (274 words)

	Olu Dara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Olu Dara’s music is the presence of all cultures and he uniquely creates a musical universalism based solely on the naturally inherent interrelationships of the music which fits together harmoniously and beautifully.
		Olu Dara’s African sojourn as a musician in the US Navy band must have profoundly affected him, as his music is ripe with underpinnings of African polyrhythms and contemporary African influences.
		Olu Dara’s son, rapper Nas, performs a sophisticated, edgy rap on "Jungle Jay", with the father laying wanton cornet licks behind the son.
	www.frankspicks.com /reviews/olu.htm (601 words)

	www.jazzweekly.com \| Interviews
		Olu Dara spoke with me by telephone and gave me significant insight into his life, his loves, and his music, as always, unedited and in his own words.
		OLU DARA: I met a man, who had just moved in town that day, one day, I think I was seven years old and he started me off with the clarinet, all forms of art, visual arts or whatever, and eventually, I moved to the cornet and piano.
		OLU DARA: I was just a guy who sang, not in the shower, but I'm a couch singer very quietly to myself when I'm playing the guitar or whatever.
	www.jazzweekly.com /interviews/odara.htm (2815 words)

	AVE: GEM - Bringing the Gap - Nas & Olu Dara
		In the midst of the sudden storm, jazz legend Olu Dara and his superstar son are sharing the spotlight at a downtown photo shoot.
		Olu turns to greet his son, who’s since left his secluded spot.
		As Nas and Olu take their seats for the first set-up of the day, they chuckle like old friends and endure the camera’s incessant clicking with mild interest.
	www.theavemagazine.com /Gems/Nasolu01.htm (567 words)

	San Francisco Bay View - National Black Newspaper of the Year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Olu’s solo was so dope to me the first time I had heard it that I kept listening to the whole record over and over, just trying to tune into his parts.
		Olu Dara: I can’t even imagine what it would’ve been like without art, because the first thing that I remember is my father singing or coming home and showing me photographs of him and four other guys called the “Mellow Dears,” traveling around in the summer while they were in college.
		Olu Dara: Travel is like being a spirit or an angel or someone with wings, where if you’ve traveled all of your life, and you’ve seen so much on earth, you look at the world differently.
	www.sfbayview.com /120303/oludara120303.shtml (1504 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Music / Restless
		To a younger generation of music fans, the rootsy multi-instrumentalist Olu Dara is better known for his progeny than for his output.
		Dara, who brings his five-member band to the Regattabar for two nights this weekend, exudes charisma and a sly wisdom.
		By his own admission, though, Dara's main audience now is under 30, the hip-hop generation that noticed him first in 1994, when Nas broke out with the instant-classic album ''Illmatic." Dara appeared on that disc, playing trumpet on one cut.
	www.boston.com /ae/music/articles/2005/01/28/restless?pg=full (1047 words)

	Down In The 'Hood / Olu Dara returns to "Neighborhoods"
		Olu Dara: from avant-garde trumpet to in-the-moment blues; with excerpts from his two CDs and his work with David Murray and Henry Threadgill, plus blues from Taj Mahal, Robert Cray, Crhis Thomas King, Debbie Davies, Mississippi John Hurt and Skip James.
		On the cover of his new CD, Neighborhoods, Olu Dara is pictured lying on his back on a lawn, reflections of the sun and clouds gleaming on the mirrored lenses of his sunglasses.
		Before that solo album, Dara was well-known in jazz circles as an avant-garde cornet and trumpet player associated with such innovative saxophonists and composers as David Murray, Sam Rivers and Henry Threadgill.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2001/03/22/derk.DTL (935 words)

	Nas and Mr. Olu Dara Behind The Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Olu Dara was born Charles Jones III, in Natchez, Miss., in 1941.
		Dara began his professional career at the age of 7 and went on to play with the jazz stars Art Blakey, Henry Threadgill and Cassandra Wilson, to collaborate with the writers Rita Dove and August Wilson, to lead his Okra Orchestra and Natchezsippi Dance Band, and to record two critically acclaimed solo albums.
		Dara's experiences have encouraged Nas to root his music in deeper soil than most hip-hop histories allow for, both men see themselves as part of a musical conversation that refuses to acknowledge aesthetic and generational divides.
	www.nobodysmiling.com /hiphop/news/78478.php (850 words)

	onhifi.com -- Music Archives
		Olu Dara's been a jazz musician for over 30 years -- a noted avant-garde trumpet player with an achingly pure tone -- but he never released any records under his own name until 1998's In the World: From Natchez to New York.
		Dara's vision is big enough to allow you to enter it -- in fact, it almost demands you enter it.
		Olu Dara's musical vision is unique, but it takes elements that are familiar and combines them in ways you haven't heard before.
	www.onhifi.com /music/20010601.htm (430 words)

	Olu Dara: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com
		Although he didn't record under his own name until 1998, Olu Dara [+] enjoyed a reputation as one of the jazz avant-garde's leading trumpeters from the mid-'70s on.
		Early-'80s records and performances with the David Murray Octet and the Henry Threadgill Sextet revealed Dara to be a daring, roots-bound soloist, with a modern imagination and a big burnished tone in the style of Louis Armstrong and Roy Eldridge [+].
		Dara was an intermittent presence on the jazz scene in the '80s and '90s, occasionally leading his Okra Orchestra and Natchezsippi Dance Band.
	www.music.com /person/olu_dara/1 (456 words)

	Robert Christgau: Olu Dara: Neighborhoods (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		On his second album as a leader, 59-year-old Olu Dara belatedly finds his footing as the fl chronicler 1998's In the World: From Natchez to New York was hailed for revealing.
		Instead of resting on his laurels as an assured avant-garde trumpeter and the father of the rapper Nas, Dara figures out how to put together a fully effective album of urban folk music, as the lilting Afrogroove of an attention-grabbing lead track clears the way for the steady funk to come.
		Dara never approaches the stylistic distinctiveness of the Delta blues singers whose rough voices are supposed to excuse his own.
	www.robertchristgau.com /xg/cdrev/dara-rs.php (163 words)

	Welcome to the Best of New Orleans! Cover Story 04 20 04
		Olu Dara's journeys have, in his 50s, produced some of his finest music.
		This innate sense of personal evolution helps explain why Dara, in his 50s and at the urging of his sons (including hip-hop star Nas), decided to release his first album under his name.
		When Dara was denied rank in the Navy, while in port in New York, he left the military and, he thought, music as well.
	www.bestofneworleans.com /dispatch/2004-04-20/cover_story4.html (634 words)

	Festival Concert Review: Olu Dara hypnotizes with funk, folk, blues
		Olu Dara may have changed his name and moved to New York, but he still has that Mississippi charm.
		Dara, born Charles Jones, opened last night's concert at Point State Park, which was part of the Three Rivers Arts Festival, with "Herbman," a song about a knowledgeable young herbs man in New York.
		Dara doesn't play nearly as much horn as he used to, but several times throughout the concert he demonstrated why he was often the trumpeter of choice for musicians ranging from Art Blakey and Sam Rivers to Henry Threadgill.
	www.post-gazette.com /AE/20020614DARA4.ASP (308 words)

	Olu Dara: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		(Dara revealed another aspect of his musical personality: the leader and singer of a band immersed in African-American tradition, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Rapper[Click link for more facts about this topic] Nas (Nasir Jones[For more, click on this link]) is Dara's son.
		He encouraged his father to record the music he was playing with his band, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/o/ol/olu_dara.htm (958 words)

	SoundStage! Olu Dara - In The World: From Natchez to New York
		This first recording project from Olu Dara is a complex mixture of Mississippi delta blues, Caribbean calypso, Louisiana Cajun, Afro-Cuban pop and some straight-ahead jazz.
		Dara is a cornetist turned ax-man, and his scratchy voice has a vague but familiar resemblance to the late, great Louis Armstrong’s.
		Olu Dara scores a winner with this debut recording.
	www.soundstage.com /music/reviews/rev060.htm (440 words)

	Blues To Do-Reviews-January 2002
		On Neighborhoods, Olu Dara paints pictures of life with songs such as "Tree Blues" (a childhood memory) and "Herbman." With experience in composing for theater ("The Piano Lesson"), jazz trumpet (Art Blakely's Jazz Messengers), and so on, Dara clearly draws from many musical sources.
		Dara's guitar strumming have the timbres of African players, the vocals utilize the art of vocalese (voices imitating instruments), and Dara's mellow wooden trumpet is unique filler amongst the vibrant instrumentation.
		Yet the CD also shows Dara's creativity and originality in songs such as "Massamba," a blues/African beat crossover, and "Bell and Ponce (at the movie show)", which mixes praise of The Mills Brothers along with a nod to "The Creature from the Black Lagoon".
	www.bluestodo.com /cds/archives/reviews/jan2002.htm (1388 words)

	AllHipHop.com : Features
		Olu Dara is the father of one of Hip-Hop's brightest stars, Nas.
		Dara obviously passed some good genes and wisdom to his son, who has seen the heights of the rap industry.
		Olu Dara: When I think about it, I remember when Nas and his brother were younger, 5 or 6 years old.
	www.allhiphop.com /features?ID=915 (1247 words)

	Blue Note New York Performance Schedule
		Although he didn't record under his own name until 1998, Olu Dara enjoyed a reputation as one of the jazz avant-garde's leading trumpeters from the mid-'70s on.
		Dara was born Charles Jones III in Louisville, Mississippi in 1941.
		Dara played the trumpet on the track "Life's A Bi*#h" from Nas's debut album 'Illmatic' in 1994.
	www.bluenote.net /newyork/schedule/moreinfo.cgi?id=3358 (382 words)

	Olu Dara Inducted Into Mississippi Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Olu Dara, father of rapper Nas, was inducted into Mississippi's Hall of Fame this weekend.
		Dara is a jazz trumpeter who released his debut album after the initial success of his son.
		And even though Dara says he writes up to 100 songs a year, he wasn't interested in recording until prompted by his son.
	vybr8r.com /news/show.php?id=823 (168 words)

	Olu Dara: GlobalVillageIdiot
		But sometimes the waiting is more than worthwhile, as in the case of Olu Dara's In The World: From Natchez to New York, one of the best roots releases of 1998.
		It's not that Olu Dara hadn't been playing music; he had, writing songs, up to 100 a year, for theatrical productions, and acting.
		Dara and his band have been touring behind the record in the U.S., going out on the road with people like Bonnie Raitt and Mickey Hart.
	www.globalvillageidiot.net /Dara.html (789 words)

	Regattabar Performance Schedule
		Although he didn't record under his own name until 1998, OLU DARA enjoyed a reputation and performances with the David Murray Quartet and the Henry Threadgill Sextet revealed Dara to be a daring, roots-bound soloist, with a modern imagination and a big burnished tone in the style of Louis Armstrong and Roy Eldridge.
		Born Charles Jones, Dara moved to New York in 1963, but did not perform publicly until the early '70s, when he became a part of the city's loft jazz culture.
		Dara played the trumpet on the track "Life's A Bitch" from Nas's debut album Illmatic in 1994.
	www.getshowtix.com /regattabar/moreinfo.cgi?id=723 (341 words)

	Master's Seminar with Trumpeter Olu Dara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Dara remained under the jazz radar screen for most of the 1980s, mostly writing music for the theater, until he re-emerged in 1998 with a fantastic solo recording, In the World: From Natchez to New York which features his famous son, the rapper Nas.
		This fine effort, as well as its stellar 2001 follow-up, Neighborhoods, displays a new side of Olu Dara, one deeply rooted in the country blues he grew up with in Mississippi.
		Dara, whose sets have become Jazz Fest highlights in recent years, mixes African rhythms with indigenous American folk sounds to create a unique musical hybrid.
	www.tipsevents.com /foundation/olu.htm (314 words)

	Blues, Bop and Beyond
		Olu Dara's music is influenced by everything from apple orchards to Zora Neale Hurston.
		Dara's stint in the Navy in his early 20s led him to ports like Africa, Spain and New York.
		Dara's played everything from bop to blues and was a part of the '70s' loft jazz scene and '80s SoHo avant-garde.
	citypaper.net /articles/022698/icepack.shtml (1177 words)

	Blues by the Bay, Eureka California (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		For many years, Olu Dara was one of the most well known, unknown multi-talented performance artists in the world.
		This was where Dara had a chance of hearing legendary blues greats (like B.B. King) sittin’ in and jammin’ with their friends.
		When Olu Dara takes the stage at Blues by the Bay VIII, you can bet he’ll be sharing a lot of that special Mississippi Delta “Neighborhood” with the crowd.
	www.bluesbythebay.org /dara.html (668 words)

	Olu Dara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Olu Dara is suddenly sorta famous these days as the father of multi-platinum New York rapper Nas, but the cornettist has long been one of the most respected players on the jazz scene.
		Dara has also had a second musical career less visible to jazz fans -- that of a composer and songwriter for theater pieces and other occasional projects.
		It's a Taj Mahal-style smorgasbord of roots music, but Dara's approach is ego-less.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/music/98/03/12/OTR/OLU_DARA.html (176 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com Music - Artist Bio
		Early-'80s records and performances with the David Murray Octet and the Henry Threadgill Sextet revealed Dara to be a daring, roots-bound soloist, with a modern imagination and a big burnished tone in the style of Louis Armstrong and Roy Eldridge.
		Besides his work with Murray and Threadgill, Dara also played with Hamiet Bluiett, James "Blood" Ulmer, and Don Pullen, among others.
		Atlantic released Dara's follow-up, entitled Neighborhoods, in early 2001.
	music.barnesandnoble.com /search/artistbio.asp?userid=29CGX8EI59&ctr=93647 (288 words)

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