Eyala
Context
Co-written with Pascal Danaë, "Eyala" appears on Scenes from My Life, Richard Bona's first solo album, recorded between November 1998 and January 1999 in New York and Paris and released by Columbia Jazz in July 1999. The Cameroonian bassist, based in New York since 1995, produced it himself.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk, Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese. Among the origins and influences of Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk: Modal, Soul jazz, boogaloo, Hard bop, Free jazz, Brazilian instrumental music, Indo-jazz, Modern big bands, Clube da Esquina (Minas Gerais).