Product Description
This is a Bb lead sheet (including original flute and piano lines, transposed for Bb instruments) for Que
Garota Linda. It's a high energy, very exciting,
Brazilian-Latin style instrumental from pianist Mark Massey's
breakthrough jazz LP: API: Acoustic Piano International.
The piano and flute interact, with the flute (performed by guest
flutist Justo Almario) and piano trading sections of the main melody,
and then providing dynamic background hooks and counterpoint. (These piano-flute lines are transposed here for Bb instruments. The tune is a
great vehicle for musical interplay, jazz improvisation, and high
energy rhythm section playing. The API track
featured Eric Stiller on acoustic bass and Aldo Bentivegna on drums,
with guest percussionist Alex Acuña of Weather Report, backing Mark
Massey and Justo Almario.
Que Garota Linda was
also covered by jazz guitarist Charles Small, a dynamic version the
style of Wes Montgomery, which can be heard
here: https://youtu.be/wNS3m8rydEw
ABOUT
MARK:
In
2018, the California State Assembly and the Los Angeles County Board
of Supervisors issued proclamations recognizing Mark Massey as a
"Jazz Living Legend." Jazz pianist-composer Mark
Massey was born and raised in Lynwood, California, where he showed
early talent on piano, trombone, and drums. During high school, he
studied classical piano and played in the bands Synopsis (with
future trumpet giant Wayne Bergeron), and Sabor (with
Poncho Sanchez and the Banda Brothers). Mark played in the Pico
Rivera Stage Band, which won First Place at the Hollywood Bowl
Battle of the Bands. Mark graduated from California State University,
Long Beach (with Bachelors and Masters degrees in Music), where he
was recipient of the Carmen Dragon Fellowship for composition and he
was dubbed "A Young Giant" by the National Association Of
Jazz Educators.
Mark
has performed throughout the U.S., Europe, the former Soviet Union
(in the 1980s), Russia (2001), the Far East and India. He has worked
with Larry Carlton, David Benoit, Paul Horn, Hubert Laws, Louie
Bellson, the Side Street Strutters, Phil Upchurch, L. Subramaniam,
Freddie Hubbard, Maynard Ferguson, Yehudi Menuhin, Stéphane
Grappelli, and Tony Williams. Mark was featured in "The Four
Pianos In Concert" series along with pianists Paul Smith, Pete
Jolly and Steve Allen.
Mark
Massey's debut CD, Acoustic Piano International, has received wide
airplay on jazz radio. "API" featured nine of Mark's
original jazz compositions (including Que Garota Linda,
offered here, inspired by his musical excursions around the globe,
along with Eric Stiller (bass) and Aldo Bentivegna (drums), and guest
artists Alex Acuña, percussion (Weather Report), Justo Almario,
flute (Mongo Santamaria), Plas Johnson, tenor sax (The Pink Panther
Theme), Bob Mintzer, soprano sax (The Yellow Jackets), and Ron Stout,
flugelhorn,
More
recently, Mark has been recording his iconic "Jazz Thoughts for
the Day" albums of original jazz improvisional compositions for
each day of the year. "Jazz Thoughts" for the months of
January through July have thus far been issued.
COMMENTS
FROM MAJOR CRITIC REVIEWS OF MARK MASSEY:
"Mark
Massey is awfully good. His friendly, lyrical, melodic piano has a
sound unto itself, API Coverbop and post-bop influenced,
contemporarily informed, and languishing solidly in the modern
mainstream. ...This is a very good trio that is together in many
aspects of jazz expressionism. In larger,
more interactive settings, Massey proves he has ideas that work well.
...Massey's talent being exposed is a breakthrough. A majority of
jazz listeners should find this a worthwhile purchase, an
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