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Jazz Thoughts for the Day - January by pianist Mark Massey, offers 31 tracks of solo jazz piano--one for each day in January. Each piece, spontaneously composed and performed for your daily dose of musical motivation. You'll be inspired by these jazz impromptus in an eclectic range of idioms--from mainstream jazz to contemporary, gospel-style to world and folk-jazz. Moods meditative and joyous, pensive and playful. Perfect music for relaxing, reading, dining. Total Playing Time: about 65 minutes. Mark Massey has performed throughout the U.S., Europe, the former Soviet Union, Russia, the Far East and India, and he has worked with Larry Carlton, David Benoit, Stéphane Grappelli, Paul Horn, Poncho Sanchez, Freddie Hubbard, Hubert Laws, Maynard Ferguson, Louie Bellson, Phil Upchurch, L. Subramaniam, Yehudi Menuin, Tony Williams, the Side Street Strutters, and many others. Past Reviews of Mark Massey's piano work "Mark Massey is awfully good. His friendly, lyrical, melodic piano has a sound unto itself, bop and post-bop influenced, contemporarily informed, and languishing solidly in the modern mainstream."
-MICHAEL G. NASTOS, ALL MUSIC GUIDE "At home, improvising fluid lines no matter what the vehicle"
-ZAN STEWART, LOS ANGELES TIMES "Mark Massey is an excellent straight-ahead pianist who often appears in the L.A. area. ...his playing is consistently appealing."
-SCOTT YANOW (author of the books Swing and Bebop : The Essential Listening Companion) Produced by Brad Powell © 2008-2009 Geofonica Records