The Ten Shades of Blues

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The Ten Shades of Blues
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Studio album by Richard Bona
Released October 19, 2009
Genre Jazz, blues, world music
Label Universal Music Jazz France
Richard Bona chronology
Bona Makes You Sweat
(2008)Bona Makes You Sweat2008		 The Ten Shades of Blues
(2009)		 Bonafied
(2013)Bonafied2013

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.

Album theme

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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[2]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Richard Bona, except where noted. 

No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Take One"     0:53
2. "Shiva Mantra"     5:47
3. "Good Times"   Richard Bona, Frank McComb 4:31
4. "M'Bemba Mama"     4:04
5. "Kurumalete"     5:02
6. "Souleymane"     4:58
7. "African Cowboy"     5:05
8. "Esukudu"     4:35
9. "Yara's Blues"   Richard Bona, Morley Kamen 4:15
10. "Sona Moyo"     4:56
11. "Camer Secrets"     4:47

Personnel

Credits adapted from AllMusic.[3]

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

Chart performance

Chart (2009) Peak
position
France (SNEP)[4] 116
Netherlands (MegaCharts)[5] 49

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