We first heard Dara Tucker on WBGO with her 2021 release, Dreams of Waking: Music For A Better World. With Dara Starr Tucker, Dara continues with her wonderful reimagining of works by Billie Eilish, John Denver, Kurt Weill and Bill Withers, but also expresses connective messages and social commentary on engaging originals. Dara surrounds herself here with some of today's top players—pianists Aaron Parks and Mike King (also on Rhodes), James Hurt on Rhodes, bassists Vicente Archer and Greg Bryant, trumpeter Giveton Gelin, Stacy Dillard's soprano sax, John Ellis on tenor sax and bass clarinet and drummer Marcus Finnie.
One listen will just get you started.
From Monday, July 17 through Friday, July 21, one cut from the Dara Starr Tucker album will be featured each morning on the New Day, New Play spotlight on my Daybreak show.
Preview “If You Asked Me To” from Dara Starr Tucker, above.
