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. The album has charted in France and the Netherlands.
Album theme
Track listing
Personnel Credits adapted from AllMusic.
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) Peakposition France (SNEP) 116 Netherlands (MegaCharts) 49
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