a écrit le 15 octobre 2009 à 18h29 Richard Bona: The Ten Shades of Blues
Clive Davis
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Not many musicians turn up at elite jazz clubs as well as the Womad bandstand. Richard Bona’s virtuoso bass-playing — mixing Pastorius-like legerdemain with melodic echoes of Cameroon — has provoked no end of wistful sighs from his peers over the past decade. The gentle beat of Shiva Mantra sets the tone on an FM airplay-friendly disc that roams over the landscape of Asia and Africa and displays slick footwork on a north American dancefloor. Compared with the wanderings of his old friend the late Joe Zawinul, the results are a little sugary. Still, Bona proves that African music doesn’t have to confine itself to the desert hinterlands. The blues are a universal language.
Wrasse WRASS246
Clive Davis
*
Recommend?
Not many musicians turn up at elite jazz clubs as well as the Womad bandstand. Richard Bona’s virtuoso bass-playing — mixing Pastorius-like legerdemain with melodic echoes of Cameroon — has provoked no end of wistful sighs from his peers over the past decade. The gentle beat of Shiva Mantra sets the tone on an FM airplay-friendly disc that roams over the landscape of Asia and Africa and displays slick footwork on a north American dancefloor. Compared with the wanderings of his old friend the late Joe Zawinul, the results are a little sugary. Still, Bona proves that African music doesn’t have to confine itself to the desert hinterlands. The blues are a universal language.
Wrasse WRASS246
