Richard Bona - The Ten Shades Of Blues (2009)

Richard Bona - The Ten Shades Of Blues (2009)

The Ten Shades of Blues is the fifth solo studio album by Cameroonian jazz bassist and musician Richard Bona. It was released on October

 19, 2009 through Universal Music Jazz France.[1] The album has charted in France and the Netherlands.

“I like each of my albums to have a theme, a project behind it. This time I chose the blues. I look at the blues from the universal 

angle: you can find it in Africa, in America and in India. People put a style to it, a style with guitar and vocals. But I see it first as

 a scale, one that’s present in different traditions and expressions in music. Ten Shades of Blues means ten nuances, ten different ways 

of playing the blues. ”

—Richard Bona

1. "Take One"  

2. "Shiva Mantra"  

3. "Good Times"  

4. "M'Bemba Mama"  

5. "Kurumalete"  

6. "Souleymane"  

7. "African Cowboy"  

8. "Esukudu"  

9. "Yara's Blues"  

10. "Sona Moyo"  

11. "Camer Secrets"  

Personnel

Credits adapted from AllMusic.[3]

Richard Bona – vocals, backing vocals, bass, guitar, keyboards, mandolin, drums, percussion, production, engineering, sampling

Additional musicians

Obed Calvaire – drums

Ryan Cavanaugh – banjo

Marshall Gilkes – trombone

Christian Howes – fiddle

Jojo Kuoh – drums

Niladiri Kumar – sitar

Sylvain Luc – guitar

Shankar Mahadevan – vocals, backing vocals

Grégoire Maret – harmonica

Frank McComb – vocals, backing vocals

Jean-Michel Pilc – piano

Vivek Rajgopalan – ganjeera, konnakol, mridangam, vocal percussion

Bob Reynolds – saxophone

Nandini Srikar – vocals, backing vocals

Satyajit Talwalkar – konnakol, tabla, vocal percussion

Bert van den Brink – Hammond organ

Technical personnel

Rob Eaton – mixing

Joseph George – engineering

Alex Lijin Jolly – engineering

Brian Montgomery – engineering

Greg Calbi – mastering

Justin Gerrish – assistant engineer

Rick Kwan – assistant engineer

Aki Nishimura – assistant engineer

Hyomin Kang – mixing assistant

Additional personnel

Pascal Bod – release coordination

Marie Carette – design

Ingrid Hertfelder – photography

Richard Bona - The Ten Shades Of Blues (2009)