| Vocalist Dara Tucker to perform at Contemporary Jazz Series |
By: Greg Bryant
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Posted: Friday, July 16, 2010 4:02 pm
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 Contemporary Jazz Series w/ Dara Tucker
Sunday, August 1 7:00pm
The Jazz Cave Nashville Jazz Workshop, 1319 Adams St., $10
The Nashville Jazz Workshop's newest series returns August 1 with an appearance by vocalist Dara Tucker. Tucker is an up-and-coming vocalist who's becoming a strong presence in clubs around town, such as Sambuca and F. Scott's. Dara will also appear at this years San Jose Jazz Festival (Aug 14th) and has had the opportunity to perform with such esteemed jazzers as drummers Jason Marsalis and Derrek Phillips and pianist Aaron Goldberg, among others.
Phillips will be in the drum chair on Aug 1 along with frequent contributor and pianist Mason Embry and saxophonist Chris West. Tucker’s music fuses gospel roots with jazz, while paying homage to American Folk music. Her style, while difficult to pigeonhole, can best be described as Urban Singer-Songwriter. Add to this a love for standards and a reverence for the Great American Songbook, and you have a potent mixture!
The series, hosted by Rahsaan Barber, is designed to present new, original, and cutting edge jazz that may not have been heard before in the Jazz Cave. Describing "contemporary jazz," series host Rahsaan Barber explained that "just as the jazz of Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie was influenced by musicians’ and audiences’ affinities for the blues of Beale Street and the bright lights of Broadway, so it is with contemporary jazz, which draws much influence from more modern strains of American music -- including funk, gospel, hip hop -- and more international 'cargo,' including Indian ragas, Cuban descargas and European classical music."
Admission $10, at the door
Photo credit: Chris Wage
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