Bona Makes You Sweat is the first live album by Cameroonian jazz bassist and musician Richard Bona. It was recorded in A 38 club in Budapest, Hungary in 2007,[2] and released on March 7, 2008, through Universal Music Jazz France.[3] The album has charted in France.
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| Released | March 7, 2008 | |||
| Recorded | July 11-12, 2007 A 38 club, Budapest, Hungary | |||
| Genre | Jazz, world music | |||
| Length | 66:37 | |||
| Label | Universal Music Jazz France | |||
| Producer | Richard Bona, Daniel Richard (exec.) | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| AllMusic |   [1] |
Bona said, "After every concert I’ve ever played, I get people coming up saying they’d love to have a souvenir of the show. That’s the reason I recorded this album—for my fans."[2]
Critical reception edit
"Bona’s fifth and latest album—his first live recording—further confirms what we already know: Bona is one of the master electric bassists in our midst, not to mention a vocal conjurer with a natural flair, but one who tends to adopt the garb of sweet-spirited, unpretentious entertainer in his role as solo artist. (...) For all his deep-dish musicality and capacity for virtuosity on tap, in his role as a bandleader, Bona likes to keep the party rolling and the material on the simple, celebratory side," wrote Josef Woodard in his review for JazzTimes.[4]
Daniel Lieuze of RFI Musique praised Bona's vocals: "A few tracks on, with the superb Indiscretions & Please Don’t [Stop], Bona stands up there live on stage and proves3lest there should linger even the slightest doubt—that as an instrumentalist he has a voice to rival the great George Benson’s. Bona is intent on showing off the many facets of that vocal timbre on Samaouma, an ‘a cappella’ polyphony which recalls the church songs he performed as a young boy growing up in Minta, his home village in eastern Cameroon."[2]
Track listing edit
All tracks are written by Richard Bona, except where noted
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Engingilaye & Ekwa Mwato" | Richard Bona | 13:24 |
| 2. | "Kivu" & "Suninga" | Richard Bona | 8:01 |
| 3. | "Kalabancoro" | Richard Bona, Salif Keita | 5:25 |
| 4. | "Samaouma" | Richard Bona | 6:16 |
| 5. | "O Sen Sen Sen" | Marc Berthoumieux, Richard Bona | 6:48 |
| 6. | "Indiscretions" & "Please Don't Stop" | Joe Zawinul/Richard Bona | 8:40 |
| 7. | "Djombwe" & "I Wish" & "Trains" | Richard Bona/Stevie Wonder/Mike Mainieri | 9:50 |
| 8. | "Te Dikalo" | Richard Bona | 5:41 |
| Total length: | 66:37 | ||
Personnel edit
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Credits adapted from AllMusic.[5]
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Chart performance edit
| Chart (2008) | Peak position |
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| French Albums (SNEP)[6] | 167 |
References edit
- ^ Widran, Jonathan. "Bona Makes You Sweat – Richard Bona". AllMusic. Retrieved September 7, 2013.
- ^ a b c "Album review – Richard Bona". RFI Musique. Archived from the original on November 24, 2012. Retrieved September 8, 2013.
- ^ "Bona Makes You Sweat (Live)". iTunes. Retrieved September 7, 2013.
- ^ Woodard, Josef (March 2009). "Jazz Reviews: Bona Makes You Sweat Richard Bona". JazzTimes. Retrieved September 8, 2013.
- ^ "Bona Makes You Sweat – Richard Bona | Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved September 7, 2013.
- ^ "Lescharts.com – Richard Bona – Bona Makes You Sweat – Live". Hung Medien. Retrieved September 8, 2013.