An Evening with Harry Belafonte and Friends

Live album by Harry Belafonte

Released

August 26, 1997

Genre

Pop, folk, world

Length

68:43

Label

Island

Producer

David Belafonte

Harry Belafonte chronology

Belafonte '89
(1989)

An Evening with Harry Belafonte and Friends
(1997)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

An Evening with Harry Belafonte and Friends is a live album by Harry Belafonte, released in 1997.^[2] The album is the soundtrack of a concert, televised by PBS in March 1997. It was also released as a concert video. In 2003 the concert video was also released on DVD.

Track listing

"We Are the Wave (Jake Holmes, Richard Cummings, The Soul Brothers) – 3:52
"Turn the World Around" (Harry Belafonte, Robert Freedman) – 6:14
"Island in the Sun (Lord Burgess, Harry Belafonte) – 4:36
"Skin to Skin" (Holmes, Godfrey Nelson) – 4:44
"Kwela (Listen to the Man)" (Holmes, S. M. Nkabinda) – 5:33
"Eyala" (Richard Bona) – 3:46
"Matilda" (Norman Span) – 9:50
"Dangerous Times" (Holmes) – 4:50
"Try to Remember" (Tom Jones, Harvey Schmidt) – 4:29
"Paradise in Gazankulu" (Holmes, Oben Ngobeni) – 7:15
"Eyando" (Bona) – 3:02
"Jamaica Farewell" (Burgess) – 6:44
"Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)" (William Attaway, Irving Burgie) – 7:40

Personnel

Harry Belafonte – vocals
Richard Bona – solos on "Eyala" and "Eyando", guitar
Mamadou Ba – bass
Morris Goldberg – woodwinds
Dan Carillo – guitar
Domonic Kanza – guitar
Galen "Lenny" Underwood – keyboards, background vocals
James R. Sebastian – drums
Edison Da Silva – percussion
Emedin Rivera – percussion
LaTanya Hall – background vocals
Gwendolyn Jackson – background vocals
Sam McKelton – background vocals
Fluitt – background vocals

Production notes:

David Belafonte – producer, engineer, mixing
Harry Belafonte – executive producer, liner notes
Kooster McCallister – engineer
Michael Halsband – photography
Joanne Savio – photography

References

↑ Allmusic review
↑ Allmusic entry for An Evening with Harry Belafonte and Friends Retrieved November 2009.

External links

Harry Belafonte

Discography

Studio albums	Mark Twain and Other Folk Favorites (1954) Belafonte (1956) Calypso (1956) An Evening with Belafonte (1957) Belafonte Sings of the Caribbean (1957) To Wish You a Merry Christmas (1958) Belafonte Sings the Blues (1958) Love Is a Gentle Thing (1959) My Lord What a Mornin' (1959) Swing Dat Hammer (1960) Jump Up Calypso (1961) Midnight Special (1962) The Many Moods of Belafonte (1962) Streets I Have Walked (1963) Ballads, Blues and Boasters (1964) In My Quiet Room (1966) Calypso in Brass (1966) Belafonte on Campus (1967) Belafonte Sings of Love (1968) Homeward Bound (1970) Belafonte by Request (1970) The Warm Touch (1971) Calypso Carnival (1971) Play Me (1973) Turn the World Around (1977) Loving You Is Where I Belong (1981) Paradise in Gazankulu (1988)

Live albums	Belafonte at Carnegie Hall (1959) Belafonte Returns to Carnegie Hall (1960) Belafonte at The Greek Theatre (1964) En Gränslös Kväll På Operan (1966) Belafonte...Live! (1972) Belafonte Concert in Japan (1974) Belafonte '89 (1989) An Evening with Harry Belafonte and Friends (1997)

Compilations	Very Best of Harry Belafonte (2001) The Long Road to Freedom: An Anthology of Black Music (2001) The Essential Harry Belafonte (2005)

Collaborations	Porgy and Bess (1959) An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba (1965) An Evening with Belafonte/Mouskouri (1966) Harry & Lena: For the Love of Life (1970) "We Are the World" (1985)

Related articles	Shari Belefonte (daughter) March on Washington Mississippi Freedom Summer

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