John Patitucci – Bass

Another contribution to the intended ‘complete album’ collection of John Patitucci bass parts to the 1997 Dave Grusin spectacular ‘West Side Story’, the tune ‘I Feel Pretty’ is essentially a feature for flautist Dave Valentin. The performance opens and closes with a duet between Valentin and pianist Grusin, with around 90 seconds of a 6:4 Latin groove in the middle. As with the 7:8 in ‘America’, reading the groove in 6:4 is initially challenging but, once you get the feel of it, it soon settles. It is not a massively complex tune and remains pretty much centred on two chords, C and G, with a couple of stabs at the end. The bass part starts at around 1:34.