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Richard Bona Journeys to Australia
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Monday November 22, 2010
from chuggentertainment.com
The electrifying Cameroonian bassist and singer Richard Bona is coming to Australia with his band for the very first time. This is destined to be a wonderful, genre-bending tour that takes in Sydney and Melbourne before finishing up at the famous Adelaide International Guitar Festival, which is curated by Slava Grigoryan.
Richard’s band for his first Australian outing includes a handful of fine contemporary musicians – Etienne Declin Stadwijk on keyboards, Lee Tatum Greenblatt on trumpet, Jean Christophe Marie Maillard on guitar, and Ernesto Siverio Simpson on drums.
“On July 07, Richard was honoured by the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal with the Antonio Carlos Jobim award. Bona is the seventh recipient of the Award, created for the Festivals 25th anniversary to honour artists distinguished in the field of world music whose influence on the evolution of jazz and crossover is widely recognized. Armed with his bass, Richard Bona won swift entry to the most prestigious of music circles: Salif Keita, Harry Belafote, Mike Stern, Pat Metheny, Bobby McFerrin and Wynton Marsalis…
As winner of the Antonio Carlos Jobim Award Bona follows in the footsteps of Toots & the Maytals, Gilberto Gill, Angelique Kidjo, Salif Keita, Khaled and Ibrahim Ferrer.”
Richard Bona’s new album Ten Shades of Blues will be released in Australia to coincide with the tour, and it’s an album that embodies Richard’s multi-cultural approach as he says: “I like each of my albums to have a theme… this time I chose the blues. 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.”
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