Olu Dara
USA
Born: 01 January 1941
Years Active: 60, 70, 80, 90, 2000
Styles: Modern Acoustic Blues, Blues Revival, Country Blues, Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz, Modern Creative
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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 born Charles Jones. He moved to New York in 1963, but did not perform publicly until the early '70s, when he became a part of the ci...
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