Richard Bona - Eyando (live 2000)

In the year 2000 Richard Bona was in Amsterdam. He made his television debut with his own band in Reiziger in Muziek. He played a couple of songs from his first album 'Scenes from My Life'. Some years before we watched Bona play at the North Sea Jazz Festival in The Hague with 'The Zawinul Syndicate'. We were all blown away by his craftsmanship, his technique, and his sound. So a dream came true on that Sunday morning in november 2000. Besides his own compositions he joined Janis Ian in our show. We asked him to do us a favour: “would you like to accompany her in the famous song 'Seventeen'?” “Yeah sure”, was his answer. He was so polite, because he didn’t know Janis Ian and he didn’t know the song. It was a heartwarming performance.
His staggering command of the electric bass has earned Richard Bona a solid reputation as the next big thing on the instrument since Jaco Pastorius. since his solo debuts in 1999, Richard Bona has defended the idea of music that's universal: generous and accessible to all.

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This video was recorded in 2000 for VPRO Reiziger in Muziek, predecessor of VPRO Vrije Geluiden: music program made by the Dutch public broadcast organization VPRO

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