Kurt Elling - Bonita Cuba (Official Music Video)

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"Bonita Cuba," was born of a fortuitous ocean-liner booking. On the last evening of a recent Caribbean jazz cruise, Elling heard Arturo Sandoval playing this melody from his adjacent cabin. "I said, 'Arturo, that's so sad. Is that a tradition of yours, to play down the sun?' But he said, 'No, I was thinking about Cuba, and about friends back home I haven't seen in decades. I was thinking about my mother and father. I got them out, and they always thought they were going to go home - but they're buried in America.'" Elling asked if he might put lyrics to this melody, and "Bonita Cuba" took shape.
“Bonita Cuba”
Music by: Arturo Sandoval
Lyrics by: Kurt Elling & Phil Galdston
Just ninety miles / over the sea
Another life / is calling to me
Another world / I lost to fire and to ashes
The sky may grow light / but the smoke cloud never passes
Mi madre died / longing for home
But you can’t fly when you’re tied to a stone
Mi padre died / and he lives now with Jesus
Su corazón in a million pieces
I cry for them / and for all my family
The friendships of my youth / and for all my country
If I could / I’d make a boat out of my heart
And sail to my home / Bonita Cuba / in the dark
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I’d go insane / but I live in music
I play through the pain / and pour songs on my bruises
If I could / I’d make a boat out of my heart
And sail to my home / Bonita Cuba / in the dark.
PASSION WORLD IS GRAMMY®-WINNING VOCALIST KURT ELLING’S MOST AMBITIOUS PROJECT YET
Recording features Arturo Sandoval, Sara Gazarek, Till Brönner, Richard Galliano, the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra and the WDR Big Band and Orchestra
Passion World, the fifth Concord album (and eleventh overall) from vocalist Kurt Elling, lives up to its title on both counts. Kurt's latest is indeed his most “worldly” album to date, as Elling casts his net far and wide, from Brazil to Ireland, Germany to France, Scotland to Cuba to Iceland. And it is indeed all about “passions” - the forces that shake our souls. As one of the busiest touring jazz artists, Elling has encountered these passions around the world; he has observed how the same depth of feeling is shaped in different ways by each unique culture through which it is filtered. The result is an album vibrant with diversity and variety, and at the same time a singular celebration of what makes us all human. In terms of its conceptual scope and its breadth of influences, Passion World is the most ambitious project yet from the preeminent male vocalist in jazz.
It is also Elling’s most star-studded album, featuring a small battalion of guest collaborators working in tandem with the singer’s much-traveled quintet (keyboardist Gary Versace, guitarist John McLean, bassist Clark Sommers, drummer Kendrick Scott). The guests include the brilliant veteran trumpeter Cuban émigré Arturo Sandoval; the widely lauded young vocalist Sara Gazarek; German trumpet star Till Brönner; French accordion virtuoso Richard Galliano; the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra and its founder-leader, saxophone savant Tommy Smith; and the world-renowned WDR Big Band and Orchestra from Germany, featuring pianist Frank Chastenier.
For most of us, “passion” conjures up love, at its most dramatic and exotic. “These are by and large compositions about romance,” says Elling, a GRAMMY winner in 2009 (and ten-time GRAMMY nominee during his career). "Romance is one of the things that most countries share, and I've noticed how different communities have their own ways of singing about love and heartbreak. So the nature of songs I have performed in France, for instance, reflects being cool when romance is done. In chanson, the French teach us the value of nonchalance. In lyrics from Cuba or Latin America there is an overwrought, almost threatening response to a broken heart, while in Brazil they sing of the love that remains after the object of love has gone. They mix happiness and sadness together and call it saudade. In Italy or Germany, the lyrics reveal the kind of statuesque and heroic, almost operatic, nature of the broken heart.”

[@vivianregueros7356]

Mercy mercy mercy! What a gem...❤❤❤😢🎉❤

[@tomlettman]

Kurt Elling is the jazz vocalist who has it all. Never less than superb. A truly great jazz song too.

[@saxfish]

< I was born in Habana in 1952. Fled in 61'. Everytime I listen to this song I shiver, melt and tears flow. You have no idea how much you have inspired me in my Saxo/Singing life ! haPPyLiFeKurt and...Infinite Gratitude Thank You !>

[@gamingwithnikotv7978]

I appreciate this beautiful jazzy song of my Bo it’s Cuba, was born there in 54, still a special place in my heart

[@saxfish]

@@gamingwithnikotv7978 1952 Bro La Habana, entre la Víbora y Vista Alegre...por la Loma del Cerro, Academia Militar del Caribe, Los Hermanos Maristas por la esquina 6-7 añitos!¡!

[@edclark550]

Cuts right to the humanity...brilliant lyrics...sad yet beautiful...that what artists do!

[@TheodorusRex]

Wow.... wow, wow, wow...

[@TomTom-rh5gk]

It captured my nostalgia for my childhood even though it was a different as possible. Best new jazz I have heard in decades.

[@imaginativelads]

One of the best jazz songs in generations.

[@steveeolio]

awesome beauty

[@ditrower8104]

The word to this song are so very beautiful and poignant, too. Just lovely.

[@marlenec9870]

Great music 🎶 🎵 👌 #patriayvida

[@jamesconley4957]

I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT TO SAY ABOUT THIS DUDE!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@saxfish]

[@restaurantraider5331]

One of the most beautifully delivered works of art I've ever heard. WOW!

[@wcastroperez]

The true nature of the feeling for the diaspora...

[@terrancethompson7876]

Herd this beautiful tune the day before I saw Arturo Sandoval at the 2015 Detroit Jazz Fest. Have it on repeat! kurt's voicing and Arturo's trumpet/flugelhorn are magic even transporting

[@garyonady82]

Not Arturo on trumpet, it is Till Bronner.

[@jramsey9690]

Stunningly beautiful. Sandoval and Elling, a match made in heaven

[@TimothyMonley]

Empathic, insightful in capturing the depth of human sadness and nostalgia through instrumental and vocal jazz genius.

[@jennyjenny44]

almost gives suffering and imperfection beauty.

[@twangbarfly]

"Another world I lost to fire and to ashes" Sublime!

[@agodsey1]

Passionate Genius. Thank you!

[@bonitaphinney1529]

Only 90 miles from the shores of Florida. Kurt Elling sings about Cuba it's mysterious culture that one wants to taste and feel. Mr.Kurt Elling, is one of the finest Jazz vocalists, who takes you there to Cuba , with his somber and haunting range of melody.

[@jennyjenny44]

lovely ..build a boat out of my heart

[@Detroitmamma]

I wish every country could be free to enjoy thsi beautiful planet I absolutely want to visit Cuba I watch movies and listen to Afro-Cubans talk about this beautiful place with bitter sweet tones

[@itzips1]

wow!!! Amo!!! Simply Beautiful... Spechless...

[@jazzbrew68]

Powerful.

[@leonpetersen7346]

"pour songs on my bruises"......💕 poetry in these lyrics just lovely

[@octaviomunoz3005]

Breaks my heart! This world is long over due

[@fredericlegros6690]

No doubt.... Mister Elling is the best jazz vocalist. Best regards from Poland.🤩👍

[@markchoconta671]

When he sings " Bonita Cuba" 👍🏼

[@marlenec9870]

My parents also buried in America 😢they dreamed of a Free Cuba to go back , sad they never did return. 😢 #patriayvida #freeCuba

[@Dadee3]

too smooth!

[@naturalista74]

Wow, his voice is so soothing.

[@sjpatrik2]

have you heard and we will fly?

[@robyg4231]

This song reminds me of the time we were together, because it was more than that, it was tremendous connection that I felt and now I feel, I feel enormously, Alyn you taught me this song and how to love the jazz, you have a part of me, every time I listened to her, I felt an immense nostalgia not being able to be by your side, always wishing......

[@IngeFordE-RYT]

This makes me nostalgic! Well done.

[@nicklyde731]

Thanks for sharing

[@42bridges]

Saudade. Bittersweet. Haunting... and so well done. Touching video too.

[@ditrower8104]

A beautiful song with beautiful words.

[@clarelangdon4137]

Sensational 🌟

[@jaja965]

che Eleganza!

[@marcovienna6031]

Pure delight, soul healer, thank you

[@joeduke-wj7xr]

dulce voz

[@selysse]

A lovely song.

[@robertalexander2478]

Viva La Cuba

[@joseluisrodriguezperez5399]

Wow... so saudade!

[@robertghini405]

Splendide (as usual)

[@TomTom-rh5gk]

I collect great performances and this is one of the fineness I have every heard. This is also a great work of art telling the universal story of childhood lost.

[@jeanglenn7855]

It's beautiful...but evokes some melancholy ❣️

[@vante730]

I love jazz is beautiful 🥺

[@vante730]

❤️❤️🥺 I love jazz🎷

[@ximeaguilera2178]

Great music!!!

[@jennyjenny44]

this is jazz...my dad would approve. (jazz god)

[@veroniqueconti3891]

Superbe clip pour un thème tout en nuances. Merci.

[@bravesirrobin8376]

Amazing

[@ELOjoyyy]

5:00 this part..

[@brittdenaza]

Maravillosa vozz

[@yung4evr]

A place not from this world.

[@brittdenaza]

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[@Transition333]

Who's the only "Thumbs Down"?

[@jamesconley4957]

Cut them thumbs off

[@shandor2522]

Evokes the land where seventy year old cars are kept running, because of ideas so good they have to be mandatory.