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Richard Bona & Alfredo Rodríguez Trio feat. Croatian Radiotelevision Jazz Orchestra

Date created: 09.06.2021.
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Richard Bona & Alfredo Rodríguez Trio feat. Croatian Radiotelevision Jazz Orchestra

Richard Bona, bass guitar, vocal

Alfredo Rodríguez, piano, vocal

Ludwig Afonso, drums

Croatian Radio and Television Jazz Orchestra 

Miron Hauser, Conductor

Richard Bona, a versatile artist called ‘the African Sting’ by his fans, is one of the rare African musicians successfully established at the top of the international music scene. Born in a small town in Cameroon, he became fascinated with Jaco Pastorius from an early age. Inspired by the celebrated American bassist, he started playing bass and emerged as one of the world’s most renowned bassists. Richard Bona is exceptionally talented and skilled, not only a bassist, but also guitarist, vocalist, arranger, composer and producer, and has performed with artists such as John Legend, George Benson, Chaka Khan, Branford Marsalis, Pat Metheny and Bobby McFerrin. He won the Victoires du Jazz Award in the category of Best International Artist of the Year in 2004, the Antonio Carlos Jobim Award at the Montreal International Jazz Festival in 2009 and the prestigious Grand Prix Sacem in the category of jazz music in 2012. A three-time Grammy Award nominee, he was the guitarist, bassist, percussionist and vocalist of the Pat Metheny Group at the time they won the Grammy for the album Speaking of Now.

At the Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Bona will be performing with his friend and colleague Alfredo Rodríguez, with whom he often appears worldwide. The young Cuban pianist and composer was discovered by Quincy Jones, who became his producer and mentor, as well as Bona’s. For this concert they will be joined by Ludwig Afonso on drums.

In their performance of top quality jazz with Afro-Cuban rhythms, the trio will be joined by the Croatian Radio and Television Jazz Orchestra, one of the world’s longest-running big bands, continuously active for over seventy years, and one of Croatia’s most influential jazz ensembles.

photo(c) Adam Hart

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