Madonna in Jazz

In case you missed our exclusive interview with Bo.Da’ earlier this month here’s a reminder. Bo.Da’ is an Italian band that has recently released an interesting record in which
some of Madonna‘s greatest song are revisited in a unique Jazzy style.
MadonnaTribe: How did you choose the songs to be included in the album? Did you follow a specific criteria in the selection, for example, the most famous hits or the songs you like the most?

BO.Dà: The criteria is based on the songs that could be better adapted to jazz and bossa arrangements, the style we wanted to give the record. We gave La Isla Bonita a bossa treatment and Holiday became a swing track, having in mind a Madonna from the ’30s: it wasn’t hard to do as she’s quite chameleontic and picturing her in various ages and different settings comes quite natural.

MadonnaTribe: What do you think about Madonna’s musical repertoire? Many detractors claim that in the end it’s just a few silly songs, but considering that her material renews itself in time, keeps being played everywhere and that many other artists from different musical backgrounds keep covering her songs, maybe its not that “superficial” after all?

BO.Dà: Only by listening to the lyrics of the songs you understand that there’s nothing superficial in their message.
Madonna had and still has the capabililty of sending a message out through “popular arrangements”, which means they get to the young generation of this century. In the 80’s she did it using sounds of those times and the message reached us as teenagers.
If you want to talk to someone and communicate, make people understand you, you have do it using their language. Music, arrangements and sounds are like a code access, a key, that she knows how to use very well.

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All images courtesy of BO.Dà – used by permission.
This interview © 2007 Madonna Tribe.