Series # 113 of The Master Sessions of Marvin Smith brings together Rob Fisch, Ben Newsome and Lew Scott together with MASTER Marvin Smith in another of the over 1200 video examples of how to create the correct teaching environment for young players to learn about traditional JAZZ MUSIC and its' ROOTS. In the old days, a young player would have to stand on line and might never have the opportunity to "RUB SHOULDERS" with THE MASTERS or they were sent home and told "DON'T COME BACK AND PLAY THAT SHIT AGAIN ON THIS STAGE". It was felt that they were DISHONORING TRADITION. Marvin Smith has created an opportunity for young players to learn about the ROOTS of the music and for the players to be directly exposed to MASTERS in his new 48 track studio which is STATE OF THE ART. Players in the 60's and 70's would NEVER TOLERATE some of THE BULLSHIT that today's younger players deal out. In the old days, there was NEVER TIME for EGOS and they wouldn't be tolerated. Today, everybody thinks they're "A MOTHER FUCKER, BAD ASS PLAYER and the truth is, few are saying anything new or different. Few are even bullshitting themselves thinking that tey're playing when in fact, they don't even know how to swing because they can't touch on their inner feelings. Many are simply copying players that they would like to play like, instead of searching inside themselves for the TRUTH OF WHO THEY REALLY ARE and in MOST CASES, they're simply NO BLOW, INEXPERIENCED WITH LIFE, NON-COMMUNICATORS OF TRUTH!. I can say some of these things because I used to think I was a "PLAING MF'R" and the truth was, I wasn't saying SHIT. After experiencing medical problems, deaths of loved one's and being hit by a car as a pedestrian, I then started learning that I was a beautiful human being and had compassion for others but I had to learn how to communicate it and SHED INTERNAL ANGER and FRUSTRATIONS THAT MY OWN EGO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR CREATING, NOT THE GOODNESS THAT WAS IMBEDDED IN ME FROM THE TRUE MASTERS THAT I PERSONALLY GREW UP WITH. I WAS DISHONORING TRADITION AND CULTURE. I NEVER GAVE IT AWAY. I NEVER THOUGHT OF ANYONE BUT MYSELF. I WOULDN'T FEED THE POOR OR HELP ANYONE BECAUSE I WAS TOO BUSY TRYING TO HELP MYSELF BECAUSE I HAD LITTLE FAITH AND LITTLE RESPECT FOR OTHERS. WHY? BECAUSE I THOUGHT I WAS THE SHIT. WHY? BECAUSE I WASN'T IN TUNE WITH MY PATHETIC SELF AND THE TRUTH THAT I AM A NO BLOW MF'R. If you can say this and mean this, you will grow but you MUST PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH and BECOME A COMPASSIONATE, LOVING, GIVING HUMAN BEING. YOU CANNOT SERVE SELF, YOU CAN ONLY SERVE OTHERS BEFORE SELF. These are some of the things that I have learned in my almost 65 years on earth and the main thing that I have learned is little happens overnight, or quickly. YOU MUST PAY YOUR DUES. IF YOU CAN'T DO THIS THEN YOU MUST STOP PLAYING AND DO SOMETHING ELSE BECAUSE CREATIVE MUSIC IS NOT YOUR BAG. IF YOU CAN'T "LIVE" THIS MUSIC THEN STOP DOING IT. YOU MUST COMMITT TO YOURSELF, TRUTH, TRUTH THAT YOU'RE ONLY A SMALL CHIP OF THE WHOLE. YOU'RE A GRAIN OF SAND ON THE BEACH BUT WITH OTHERS, YOU CAN BECOME THE BEACH. YOU CAN ACTUALLY BECOME THE MUSIC AND ENTER THE SERET WORLD, THE WORLD WHERE LOVE, JOY AND ULTIMATE PEACE RESIDES. Listen carefully to both Rob Fisch and Ben Newsome working together creating beautiful harmony and JOY. Listen carefully to LEW SCOTT putting down great DANCING LOW TONES along with Marvin Smith'spowerful but sensitive flowing grooves. I loved the way all four of these great players demonstrated the TRUTH of healing sound vibration, what I like to refer to as MUSIC, THE HEALING MEDICINE. Marvin Bu Ga Lu Smith is the only JAZZ MUSICIAN/COMPOSER/STUDIO OWNER/RECORD COMPANY OWNER that I know that has ever put together ALMOST 1500 MUSIC VIDEOS OF HIS PERFORMANCES AND DID THIS FOR STUDENTS TO HAVE DOCUMENTED PROOF OF THE WAY JAZZ IS AND SHOULD BE HONORED AS AN AMERICAN ART FORM. A TRUE TRADITIONAL AMERICAN MUSIC THAT STARTED IN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN WORLD. The true credit goes to those like Charlie Parker, Willie THE LION SMITH, TATUM, POWELL, MONK, TRANE,ELLINGTON, ARMSTRONG, BECHET,ROLLINS, KIRK, and ON and ON we go with names many have heard of in books or on old sides but few have rubbed shoulders with these masters. Well guess what, MARVIN HAS and SO HAVE I but the project of educating young students has tremendous responsibility and Marvin has taken on this responsibility without the business bullshit that typically goes along with today's commercial music. Marvin Bu Ga Lu Smith "GIVES IT ALL AWAY" but expects that serious folks that want to preserve the future of this ART FORM must do some work and NOT HAVE THEIR HANDS OUT FOR COMPENSATION. The ability to become a MASTER and THE SECRET OF PLAYING AND UNDERSTANDING THIS MUSIC IS IN THE FACT THAT YOU MUST GIVE IT AWAY. YOU MUST DO FOR OTHERS FIRST and LOOK FOR NOTHING IN RETURN. BY DOING THIS, YOU WILL LEARN THE JOY OF GIVING AND MAKING PEOPLE HAPPY. BECOME TRUTH AND BRING THAT INTO YOUR MUSIC and THEN YOUR MUSIC WILL SWING and HAVE GREAT PURPOSE AS HEALING MEDICINE BOTH FOR YOU AND OTHERS and EVENTUALLY YOU'LL REACH A STATE OF MASTERFULLNESS, you will become enlightened, but again, IT WON'T HAPPEN OVERNIGHT and IT WON'T HAPPEN WITHOUT SACRIFICE!
LOVE ALWAYS and ALWAYS LOVE,
HABIB
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