The Ten Shades of Blues

The Ten Shades of Blues
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) The Ten Shades of Blues (2009) Bonafied (2013)

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

“	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

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

Chart performance

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

References

1. "The Ten Shades of Blues by Richard Bona". iTunes. Retrieved September 1, 2013.
2. "The Ten Shades of Blues". bonamusic.com. Retrieved September 1, 2013.
3. "The Ten Shades of Blues - Richard Bona | Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
4. "LesCharts.com - Discographie Richard Bona" (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved September 1, 2013.
5. "DutchCharts.nl - Discografie Richard Bona" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved September 1, 2013.