In the World: From Natchez to New York

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Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "Unsubst-infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". In the World: From Natchez to New York is the solo debut album by the jazz cornetist Olu Dara, released in 1998.[1] Dara also sings and plays guitar on the album.[2]

The album peaked at No. 19 on the Billboard Traditional Jazz Albums chart.[3]

Critical reception

Template:Music ratings The Washington Post's Geoffrey Himes wrote: "Mixing up sly humor and evocative description, Dara's singing slips and slides around the steady guitar rhythms, which borrow equally from Delta blues, Caribbean calypso and West African high-life."[4]

In a review for AllMusic, Scott Yanow called the album a "fascinating and successful effort," and stated: "Dara emerges here as an effective country-blues singer and guitarist. Fortunately, Dara does not neglect his cornet but the music is definitely much different than one might expect."[5]

Derk Richardson of SFGate commented: "Performing songs about daily life in the 'hood back in the day of okra-selling street peddlers, intoning blues that refuse to separate desire from its cultural context, and collaborating with his rap star son Nas, Dara manifests an aesthetic co-inhabited by Robert Johnson, Tampa Red, Charles Mingus, Dizzy Gillespie and Arrested Development's Speech as if they were all members of the same band."[6]

Writing for JazzTimes, Bret Primack described the album as "a cohesive creation that seamlessly weaves diverse elements in new and intriguing ways," and noted: "Flying below the radar of commercial media, Dara has managed to chart a course for his creativity by 'having my hand in many ways of expressing myself'."[7]

A reviewer for CMJ New Music Report remarked: "As warm and as gentle as a summer day in Mississippi, the appropriately named album is a perfect blend of Southern blues, New York jazz and African rhythms... [its] seductive groove, cool melodies and spare lyrics result in pure enchantment."[8]

Track listing

  1. "Okra" – 4:48
  2. "Rain Shower" – 4:34
  3. "Natchez Shopping Blues" – 3:34
  4. "Your Lips" – 3:58
  5. "Harlem Country Girl" – 5:47
  6. "Zora" – 3:14
  7. "Young Mama" – 4:44
  8. "Bubber (If Only)" – 3:04
  9. "Father Blues" – 3:32
  10. "Jungle Jay" featuring Nas – 5:02
  11. "Kiane" – 4:32

Personnel

  • Olu Dara – lead vocals, cornet, trumpet, guitar, bass drum, percussion, backing vocals
  • Nas – vocals (track 10)
  • Kwatei Jones-Quartey – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, percussion
  • Ivan Ramirez – electric guitar
  • Rudy "Obadeli" Herbert – organ
  • Alonzo Gardner – bass
  • Greg Bandy – drums
  • Richard James – congas
  • Cantrese Alloway, Darada David, Joyce Malone, Melba Joyce – backing vocals

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