Richard Bona: “Liberty City“ | Frankfurt Radio Big Band
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hr-BIGBAND feat. RICHARD BONA
Richard Bona | electric bass
Michael Philip Mossman | conductor
Soloists: Heinz-Dieter Sauerborn, ss; Peter Reiter, p; Jürgen Neudert, tb; Richard Bona, el-b & voc
LIBERTY CITY is a composition by Jaco Pastorius
arranged by Michael Philip Mossman
Live-Recording at hr-Sendesaal, Frankfurt, march 22nd 2018
African grooves, virtuoso bass lines and feather-light singing in the tradition of West African griots: Richard Bona weaves these ingredients into a music for head, heart and feet. Richard Bona built his first bass himself from crates and bicycle brake ropes. A French jazz club owner in Douala had played recordings of Jaco Pastorius to the thirteen-year-old Richard and thus pointed the way. Otherwise the Cameroonian might have become famous only as a singer. With his feathery falsetto singing, in which the West African Griot tradition is suspended, he is still enchanting. But it is his astonishing virtuosity on the electric bass that first paved Bona’s way into the bands of Salif Keita and Manu Dibangu and finally into those of jazz fusion greats like Pat Metheny, Michael Brecker or Joe Zawinul. Richard Bona has long been a star himself and is now playing together the hr big band with his own music.
deutsch:
Afrikanische Grooves, virtuose Basslinien und federleichter Gesang in der Tradition westafrikanischer Griots: Richard Bona verwebt diese Zutaten zu einer Musik für Kopf, Herz und Füße. Seinen ersten Bass baute sich Richard Bona selbst aus Kisten und Fahrrad-Bremsseilen zusammen. Ein französischer Jazzclub-Besitzer in Douala hatte dem Dreizehnjährigen Platten von Jaco Pastorius vorgespielt und damit die Richtung gewiesen. Andernfalls wäre der Kameruner vielleicht nur als Sänger berühmt geworden. Mit seinem federleichten Falsettgesang, in dem die westafrikanische Griot-Tradition aufgehoben ist, verzaubert er noch immer. Aber es ist seine Staunen machende Virtuosität auf dem E-Bass, die Bona zunächst den Weg in die Bands von Salif Keita und Manu Dibangu ebnete und schließlich in die von Jazzfusion-Größen wie Pat Metheny, Michael Brecker oder Joe Zawinul. Längst selbst ein Star, kommt Richard Bona jetzt mit seiner eigenen Musik zur hr-Bigband.
hr-Bigband:
trumpets: Frank Wellert, Thomas Vogel, Martin Auer, Axel Schlösser
saxophones: Heinz-Dieter Sauerborn, Oliver Leicht, Tony Lakatos, Steffen Weber, Rainer Heute
trombones: Günter Bollmann, Simon Harrer, Jürgen Neudert, Manfred Honetschläger
piano: Peter Reiter
guitar: Martin Scales
drums: Jean Paul Höchstädter
percussion: Marcio Doctor
Credits:
Olaf Stötzler, manager Frankfurt Radio Bigband
Lucia Rosu, executive producer
Robin Bös, sound-engineer
Rainer Schwarz, sound-engineer
cameras: Sven Bader, Jens Benner, Julia Gnann, David Elias Kar
recording manager: Sabine Wiesner
techn. production: Uwe Tapken
live-streaming: Jürgen Hanssum
project coordinator: Matthias Hohn
executive producer video: Nikolas Pieper
production manager: Hartmuth Niemczik
producer: Manuel Meyer
A production of Hessischer Rundfunk
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