Over the last two decades, Olu Dara has been known principally as a regular collaborator ... more
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
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Over the last two decades, Olu Dara has been known principally as a regular collaborator ... more
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
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Advantages: Brilliant location, modern, big room, huge TV, one of the cheapest hotels Disadvantages: Breakfast is expensive, toilet blocked a couple of times, not enough lifts
the same place where we started!
The 3.5* hotel looks great from the outside with its revolving doors and door men and the reception and lobby area inside is splashed out in marble and looks very classy. We felt a bit trampy arriving in our comfy trousers and trainers looking hot and exhausted from the 8 hour flight and from lugging our suitcases through the streets!
We were checked in quickly and shown where the elevators were up to our room. No one came to help us with our cases though which we were expecting.
Our room was nice and big which I hear is unusual for NewYork hotel rooms so we were pleased with that. We did have 2 double beds in the room which was strange as we only needed the one but that didn't bother us we just used one as a bed and one as a big sofa. The TV was absolutely huge! It's by far the biggest one I've ever ...
Advantages: buzzing place with cheap clothing and handbags Disadvantages: pushy merchants
Chinatown is like a different world you wouldnt think that you are inNewYork at all. Its very busy and if you dont like lots of people about this is not the place for you. The street are dirty and quite frankly smell a wee bit. The merchants can be very pushy and are constantly tryn to get you to buy their purfumes, handbags, watches etc, this can get quite anoyn after an hour or so.
If you dont like stalls and their atmposphere you wont like here. However the merchants can be very helful and I bought a chinese dress and got alot of help on sizing from the lady who sold it to me. Only cost me $40. I also got a D&G (fake) handbag for $20. They sometimes can be too helpful tho if you are only browsing! My advice is to haggle and haggle and they will drop their prices Im not very good at this tho! I can guarantee you if you go to one ...
DeniseKelly40 23.08.2007 (24.08.2007)
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful Review of Chinatown, New York
Advantages: Great Location, Clean and Friendly Staff Disadvantages: Views from hotel itself not great, no free wi fi
My boyfriend turned 30 a few weeks ago and for his present I booked us a trip toNewYork and the Wellington Hotel is where I picked for us to stay due to its central location in Manhattan.
Last Wednesday we flew out to NYC and checked into the Wellington.
If you didn't know already this is where part of the Borat film was made, the main scene being where he tries to unpack his things in the lift thinking its his room and so many Borat jokes ensued in the elevators during our stay.
The location of the hotel is amazing, its a 1 minute walk from Carnegie Hall, 2 minutes from Central Park and 5 minutes from Times Square and is located on the corner of 55th Street and 7th Avenue. The placement of the hotel was my favourite thing about it as it was just so easy to walk to some of the city's best attractions from here.
When we checked in ...
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Product details
Title
In The World (From Natchez To New York)
Performer
Olu Dara
Genre
Jazz Instrument
Sub Genre
Cornet
Release Date
12/04/1999
Recomended Retail Price
15.99 GBP
Original Release Year
1998
Label / Distributor
Atlantic / Cinram Logistics
Engineer
Danny Kopelson
Producer
Yves Beauvais; Olu Dara
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
75678307720
Catalogue Number
7567830772
Additional notes
Album Notes
Personnel: Olu Dara (vocals, trumpet, cornet, guitar, bass drum, percussion); Mayanna Lee (vocals); Nas (rap vocals); John Abrams (tenor saxophone); Rudy "Obadeli" Herbert (Hammond B-3 organ); Kwatei Jones-Quartey (acoustic & electric guitars, percussion, background vocals); Ivan Ramirez (electric guitar, guitar, background vocals); Alonzo Gardner (bass, background vocals); Greg Bandy (drums, percussion, background vocals); Richard James (congas); Melba Joyce, Joyce Malone, Cantrese Alloway, Darada David (background vocals). Recorded at Sear Sound and Platinum Island, New York, New York. Includes liner notes by Ntozake Shange. All tracks have been digitally mastered using HDCD technology. You'd think being one of the most in-demand cornet players on the downtown New York avant-jazz scene, performing and recording with innovators like Jamaladeen Tacuma, Material and James Blood Ulmer to name just a few, would be artistic expression aplenty for most musicians. Not so for Olu Dara. On his long overdue solo outing, Dara delivers not the expected Knitting Factory-style jazz romps but rather a seamless, organic blend of funk, blues, African music, folk and jazz that owes as much to Taj Mahal as to Bill Laswell. In fact, there are tracks where Dara doesn't even touch the cornet, relying instead on his earthy voice and rich guitar tones, which are the album's constants. Most of the tunes feature lyrics that examine the everyday reality of urban life in a disarmingly realistic way, setting up Dara as a kind of bluesman for the next millenium. On "Jungle Jay" that urban quotient is accentuated by a guest appearance from Dara's son, hip-hop star Nas. The album closes on a heartfelt, postive note, with the tender lullaby "Kiane."
Album Reviews
Rolling Stone (2/19/98, p.58) - 3.5 Stars (out of 5) - "...connects the dots between...the open exchanges of jazz and the droning pain of rural blues, between the percolating rhythms of the islands and the stately parade beats of New Orleans..." CMJ (1/11/99, p.5) - "...a perfect blend of Southern blues, New York jazz and African rhythms....IN THE WORLD's seductive groove, cool melodies and spare lyrics result in pure enchantment..." Mojo (4/99, p.116) - "...He's absorbed swing, bebop, folk, blues and every other style, but putting 35 years of jobbing cornet playing playing down on one album - coherently - should have been asking too much..." Vibe (2/98, p.125) - "...Now resurrected as a distinctive guitarist and vocalist, Dara cultivates a Brooklyn Delta vibe that owes as much to high life, juju, and reggae as to the juke-joint jive of his Natchez, Mississippi hometown..."
Titles on disc 1
1.
Okra
2.
Rain Shower
3.
Natchez Shopping Blues
4.
Your Lips
5.
Harlem Country Girl
6.
Zora
7.
Young Mama
8.
Bubber (If Only)
9.
Father Blues
10.
Jungle Jay
11.
Kiane
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