16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trios, Songs From My Father (Whaling City Sound) New Releases – Philip Booth (JazzTimes, Jazziz, Relix) New Releases – Andrew Gilbert (San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Classical Voice, Bay Area News Group) New Releases – Mark Holston (Jazziz, Latino) New Releases – Yoshi Kato (San Francisco … Read More
By Betsy Bell, Jazz Journal Dara Tucker’s new album features 11 covers of some carefully chosen tracks that, as she says, refer “to the hope that our society will develop an awareness of the inequities that still exist. It’s the dream that we will become fully conscious and attuned to the hopes, dreams and needs … Read More
By George Harris, Jazz Weekly “Social messages are being delivered in a wide variety of ways, such as sports and music. Here are some albums addressing the issues of today.” Read the full article, with reviews of Jalen Baker’s This Is Me, This Is Us, Dara Tucker’s Dreams of Waking, Keith Brown’s African Ripples and … Read More
by Euan Dixon, Derek Ansell, Jazz Views The August 2021 issue of Jazz Views UK includes reviews of Steven Feifke‘s Kinetic, Dara Tucker‘s Dreams of Waking: Music for a Better World, Tim Mayer‘s Keeper of the Flame and Paul Bedal‘s Cerulean Stars. Read the full reviews here.
By Mike Myers, JazzWax On this album, Dara brings fresh life and meaning to songs of social awareness from the 1960s and ’70s as well as originals that reflect on contemporary struggles. Read more here.
By Ron Wynn, Nashville Scene Vocal stalwart Dara Tucker, a former Nashvillian now in New York, has delivered perhaps her finest collection of updated and reworked classics adapted from non-jazz genres with Dreams of Waking, out May 28. Read more here.
By Jim Hynes, Making A Scene The blues readers of these pages probably know the name Dara Tucker, ostensibly a jazz vocalist on this outing – Dreams of Waking – Music for a Better World. She co-wrote and sang on the title track for ‘Keb Mo’s Grammy winning Oklahoma. Tucker indeed hails from that same … Read More
By Bill Buckley, Soul and Jazz and Funk We’ve known about Tulsa-born but Nashville-based singer/songwriter Dara Tucker since 2009 when she debuted with ‘All Right Now’. That was followed by ‘Souls Said Yes’ – another collection of covers and originals that had critics making comparisons between Dara and artists as diverse as Carole King (for … Read More
By Joe Vitagliano, American Songwriter While the story of racism in America is as old as America itself, the protest movement that arose around the world following the murder of George Floyd last summer brought the conversation to a new level of prominence… especially in pop culture. Read more here.
Award-Winning Vocalist Dara Tucker Announces the Release of Her Transcendent New Album, Dreams of Waking: Music For a Better World, Out May 28, 2021 via Green Hill Music Green Hill Music is proud to announce the May 28th, 2021 release of Dreams of Waking: Music For a Better World, the new album by consummate vocalist, … Read More
