Contemporary Jazz Series w/ Dara Tucker
Sunday, August 1
7:00pm
The Jazz Cave
Nashville Jazz Workshop, 1319 Adams Street

NJW's newest series returns August 1 with an appearance by vocalist Dara Tucker and her band. Dara is an up-and-coming vocalist who's becoming a strong presence in clubs around town, such as Sambuca and F. Scott's. Her 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

Admission: $10.00