Series 38 Marvin Bu Ga Lu Smith vimeo.com/bugalusmith

Greg Glassman brings a special feeling to the bandstand of gentle,deep love of the ART FORM of Jazz. In listening to the first piece I was captured by the gentle flow of the groove that Marvin and Malcom laid down. Greg's musical statements reached way down into the foundation of early BOP and I was taken back to my younger years when I roamed the streets of Midtown NY and UPTOWN Harlem as a kid. I listened to this music and it brought back beautiful childhood memories and dreams become reality.
Marvin Bu Ga Lu Smith, THE BABA and THE MASTER has shown his talents as a teacher through all if the documentation here on cuts 5 through 9. Each students is presented and has an opportunity of being captured in a LIVE setting like the old days of early JAZZ in NYC. Nobody else in the world is teaching the way Baba Master Marvin Bu Ga Lu Smith is doing it because NOBODY IN THE WORLD IS MARVIN and NOBODY SWINGING and TEARS IT UP LIKE MARVIN and NOBODY IN THE WORLD CAN COMMUNICATE THIS INNER FEELING THAT HE HAS AND HELP THE STUDENT TO DEVELOP THEIR OWN UNIQUE,INDIVIDUAL SOUND FROM THEIR OWN,INDIVIDUAL PERSONALITY. Marvin simply wants the students to learn how to have fun and give others joy through their musical gifts. Some students learn faster than others but TIME is truly THE MASTER and experience is what counts. Students learn how to work hard and not take short cuts. It took Marvin 60 years on earth to learn about playing because he always is playing his life's experience and tells students to play their own experience. We're always learning and always adding expression or vocabulary to our drumming, musical words. Yeah, HATS OFF TO BABA MASTER MARVIN BU GA LU SMITH as all the students sound better than ever. I know how much work and how much sacrifice Marvin has done to reach the point where jazzdrumlessons.com Marvin's school and all the other projects he has created have become global and available to the public now while this LEGEND is still with us. His record label BUMAR will be making available almost 600 music video examples of his teaching approach that exposes students directly to THE MASTERS on the bandstand each week. Teaching by DIRECT EXAMPLE and EXPOSURE IS THE TCKET TO MASTERFUL PLAYING. NO BULLSHITTIN! "GO TO THE VIDEO TAPE" as Werner Wolfe always said so here they are this week SERIES 38 with the great Marvin Bu Ga Lu Smith, Master Malcom Cecil and Master Greg Glassman with student documented proof.
ENJOY THIS WONDERFUL TEACHING EXAMPLE BY ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST GIFTED and EFFECTIVE DRUM TEACHERS. I THINK HE'S THE BEST!

LOVE ALWAYS and ALWAYS LOVE,
Steve Habib