Artist: Richard Bona
Title Of Album: Scenes From My Life
Year Of Release: 1999
Label: Columbia Jazz
Genre: Jazz, World Fusion
Format: Flac/Cue/Log/Artwork
Quality: Lossless
Total Time: 52:57
Total Size: 404 MB (+3%)
Artist: Richard Bona
Title Of Album: Scenes From My Life
Year Of Release: 1999
Label: Columbia Jazz
Genre: Jazz, World Fusion
Format: Flac/Cue/Log/Artwork
Quality: Lossless
Total Time: 52:57
Total Size: 404 MB (+3%)
Tracklist
1. Dipita
2. New Bell
3. Souwedi Na Wengue
4. Eyala
5. Djombwe
6. Te Dikalo
7. One Minute
8. Muna Nyuwe
9. Na Mala Nde
10. Konda Djanea
11. Eyando
12. Messanga
personnel :
Mokhtar Samba — Drums
Luisito Quintero — Percussion
Jean-Michel Pilc — Piano
Etienne Stadwijk — Keyboards
Edsel Gomez — Piano
Frederic Favarel — Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Steel), Guitar
(Electric)
Richard Bona — Organ, Arranger, Mixing, String Arrangements,
Vocoder, Maracas Mbira, Producer, Kalimba, Vocals, Keyboards,
Percussion, Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar, Bass
Alune Faye — Percussion, Sabar
Jeremy Gaddie — Drums
Ari Hoenig — Drums
Colette Michaan — Flute
Makthar Samba — Drums
Stephan Vera — Drums
Mara Milkis — Violin
Jeffery Levine — Contrabass
Virginia Burward-Hoy — Cello
Belinda Whitney-Barratt — Violin
Kenneth Burward-Hoy — Violin, Viola
Aaron Heick — Saxophone, Sax (Alto)
Michael Brecker — Saxophone, Sax (Tenor)
Omar Hakim — Drums
Richard Bona’s debut solo album Scenes from My Life is an
unexpected delight, a first effort of such assurance that it’s
nearly irresistable. Bona blends a smooth production with fusions
of contemporary jazz and music from his native country, Cameroon,
West Africa. He has a warm, fluid style on bass and his voice is
pure, high and lovely. To some undiscriminating ears, it may sound
a little too smooth, but there is no calculation behind this music,
only joy, and that is what makes Scenes from My Life a first-class
debut. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide