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The Secret Seduction of the Grand Pompadour 2008 is here!

                            

 

  Try to imagine a comic opera starring a character who is known only as the Grand Pompadour. Is he royalty? Upper class? High Society? No one's telling, but his amorous adventures take him across the gamut of styles: from the orchestral introduction of the March to smoky late night piano bars  to pianissimo nocturnal waltzes segueing into a romp through the Latin side of town and back finally landing transcendently on the outskirts of Paris...An all original cd by us....

 

1) The March of the Grand Pompadour/c. williams (arranged by k. dale)

2) The World's Greatest Lover/c. williams

3) The Scene of You/c. williams

4) Postcards/c. williams/a. pike

5) Henry and June/c. williams

6) The Very Idea /c. williams

7) The Heat Below/c. williams

8) Little World/c. williams

9) Moonlight Falling/c. williams

10) Ou Est Pepe Lopez/k. dale

11) Lily's On the Prowl/c. williams

12) The Dinnercar/c. williams

13) Little White Lies/c. williams/a. pike

14) Busy Season/c. williams

15) So You/c. williams

 

It's here! Our latest cd is available now in beautiful full color and with a 20 page booklet, and it's only $15. 

 

Here's how to order: 

 

Through our website by emailing djangoboy@earthlink.net or 

 http://cdbaby.com/cd/bonaventure3 

 

The cd is also available at Decatur Cd in Decatur and Criminal Records in Little Five Points or digitally download by following this link to digstation.com:
 

http://www.digstation.com/DigstationBio.aspx?artistname=TheBonaventureQuartet

 

 

 

  Here's our first review of the Grand Pompadour's adventures:

     

Georgia Music Magazine, Spring Issue 2008 and INsite's April issue, 2008:

The Bonaventure Quartet- The Secret Seduction of the Grand Pompadour (Self Released)

Chances are you’ve never heard a band quite like the Bonaventure Quartet. Like the Squirrel Nut Zippers before them, the misnomered sextet is steeped in the old-time jazz your grandparents may well have listened to in their youth. But where that Carolina act tended to serve up Dixieland and Ragtime with a healthy dose of camp, the Bonaventure Quartet tackles Django Reinhardt’s Continental jazz with a warm sense of reverence that reeks of authenticity.
The group began as an acoustic trio, but it’s hard to imagine them being this good without veteran vocalist Amy Pike, former frontwoman for swing band The Lost Continentals. The orchestral opening of “The March of the Grand Pompadour” showcases guitarist Charles Williams’ (a founding member of Aquarium Rescue Unit) classical compositional influences, but it’s when Pike’s rich vocals intertwine with Williams and Dave Boling’s strummed guitars and Don Erdman’s smooth clarinet on the frisky “The World’s Greatest Lover” that the album really comes alive. “The Scene Of You” proves the band can deliver a torch ballad with just as much personality as their swing, with Pike lamenting, “What can I say, you had it coming/What with the way you ran around/And who in the world could blame this sweet little girl/Besides, I didn’t leave any clues at the scene of you.”
And so it goes throughout this fantastic 15-track LP, moving from gypsy-style jazz (“The Heat Below”) and Argentinian tango (“Moonlight Falling”) to klezmer influences (“Ou Est Pepe Lopez”) and sultry blues (“Lily’s On The Prowl”) with equal aplomb. Since each of these seasoned veterans seems to have their own side gigs, I’m guessing the Bonaventure Quartet doesn’t play out all that often. Which makes it all the more essential for jazz fans to catch them when they do. – BRET LOVE

 

 

SONGS FROM TRATTORIA LA CELLINA...Our latest one.

We recorded a show we played at Eddie's Attic  May 21, 2004 and decided to put it out as a cd...It's got a few new originals plus some other songs, familiar and obscure, that we like...  

(CD cover photo by Amy James, © 2004) 

Song List
      There is No Greater Love (Symes/Jones)...Ok, we like this one!
          Moonlight Falling (C. Williams)
          Undecided (Robin/Shavers)
          Cheek to Cheek (Berlin)
           The Silencer (Bernstein)
           What is this Thing Called Love (Porter)
          The World's Greatest Lover (C. Williams)
          Just One of Those Things (Porter)
           So You (C. Williams)
          Just About Knocked me Out (Cole)
           Blue Rendezvous (C. Williams)
           Besame Mucho (Velasquez) 

Songs from Trattoria La Cellina is available for purchase through this website (see below) or visit  http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bonaventure  to hear samples and purchase online.  

BLUE RENDEZVOUS

Recorded live at Ken Gregory's studio on October 25th, 2002. Half of the songs are originals and the rest are just songs we like to play at our shows... 

(CD cover photo by Amy James, © 2002) 

Song List
        In Lieu of Flowers* (C. Williams)
        My Window Faces the South (Wills)
        Inferno* (K. Dale)
        Just About Knocked Me Out (Cole)
        Nuits de St. Germaine (Reinhardt)
        Blue Rendezvous* (C. Williams)                                                         
        All in Good Time* (C. Williams)
        There is No Greater Love (Symes/Jones)
        Russian Lullaby (Berlin)
        Paper Moon (Arlen)
        Tres Ambiance* (C. Williams)

        © 2002 Chateau Debris Music BMI All Rights Reserved.

Blue Rendezvous is available for purchase through this website (see below) or visit http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bonaventure2 to hear samples and purchase online.