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Ola Onabule's video was featuredOla Onabule - If You Knew - Dresden Jazztage - Nov 2012
My band and I perform 'If You Knew' from my 2000 album 'Precious Libations for Silent Gods' at the Dresden International Jazz Festival In the autumn of 2012 ...
Ola Onabule posted a videoOla Onabule - The Desperate Ones - Seven Shades Darker
A performance of 'The Desperate Ones' from Ola Onabule's 2012 album: Seven Shades Darker. Ola Onabule © 2012 Buy the song - OLA'S WEB STORE - http://olaonabu...
Ola Onabule posted a videoOla Onabule - LOVE FOR SALE - An all vocal track.
http://www.facebook.com/oonabule http://olaonabule.bandcamp.com/ http://www.olasmusic .com I wrote this song one lazy Sunday afternoon and was eager to recor...
Ola Onabule's video was featuredOla Onabule - 'Soul Town' @ Montreal Jazz 2009
Buy this song @ iTunes: http://tinyurl.com/3rcy424 http://www.olasmusic.com http://www.facebook.com/oonabule http://www.myspace.com Soul/Jazz singer songwrit...
Ola Onabule left a comment for Uptown Jazz Dallas IJF"Look forward to hearing more about the Festival as this Spring goes by."
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- OLA ONABULE - The name represents true soul. OLA'S voice - unmistakably gentle and wistful, haunting and heartbreaking, very special and unique reminiscent of the great Soul and Jazz artists of the 1960s and 70s, whose music was able to change the course of history because it changed perceptions and opened minds.
OLA ONABULE is an inspired artist for the 21st Century who has written, recorded and produced 7 albums on his label Rugged Ram Records. Ola's music has been performed on the largest festival stages worldwide including the main stage of the Montreal Jazz Festival, Vancouver International Jazz Festival and many others. In Germany, Ola has collaborated with The WDR Big Band in Cologne Philharmonie, The Babelsberg Film Orchestra in Nikolaisaal Potsdam and most recently with The SWR Big Band at the Jazzfest Aalen with arrangements of his beautifully crafted songs.
SEVEN SHADES DARKER is a modern classic. Grooves undoubtedly rooted in the Soul and Blues of the late sixties and early Seventies make an unlikely but easy peace with mournful, complex African melodic lines. Seemingly conventional 4/4 grooves beguile with inviting familiarity whilst slipping potent lyrical nuggets under the radar of our assumptions. Ballads are new requiems, odes to the passing of loved ones, Funky jaunts document the ebbing away of precious time, and deal with jealousy, cowardice, loss of identity and the world through the eyes of an unwanted visitor is set to the galloping gait of an african church hymn.
What sets “SEVEN SHADES DARKER” apart is Ola’s lyrical sensibility, poetic in tone and attuned to the issues of the day; as Ola puts it himself, “Though my music is of a different idiom, I write with the heart of a folk songwriter and the desire for my lyrics to be heard and read.”
Ola has shared stages with some of the world's finest soul and jazz artistes; Al Jarreau, Dianne Reeves, Joe Zawinul, Roberta Flack, Natalie Cole, Roy Hargrove, Gladys Knight and Patti LaBelle. Ola seems set to become a name that will last as long.
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- How did you find out about Uptown Jazz Dallas IJF?
- I first heard about the festival on my linked in page.
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