| The Ten Shades of Blues | ||||
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| Released | October 19, 2009 | |||
| Genre | Jazz, blues, world music | |||
| Label | Universal Music Jazz France | |||
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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.
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]
All tracks are written by Richard Bona, except where noted.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 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 |
Credits adapted from AllMusic. [3]
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| Chart (2009) | Peak position |
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| France (SNEP) [4] | 116 |
| Netherlands (MegaCharts) [5] | 49 |
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