PART 2 of SERIES 103 The Master Sessions OF MARVIN BU GA LU SMITH FEATURES Jan Jurgielewicz and Andrew Greeney in the 2nd and third song. MARVIN BU GA LU SMITH opens playing drums on the first slow, a slow song with wonderful rich tone from SCHNITTERS HORN and beautiful ideas by both David Schnitter and RON PETRIDES. I loved the 9 minutes of sensitive smooth sounds that came out of these four MASTERS PLAYING TOGETHER. THE REAL SURPRISE OF THE EVENING WAS TO HEAR JAN JURGIELEWICZ LAY DOWN THE BOSSA GROOVE ON THE SECOND SONG AND PLAY SOME WONDERFUL COMPING IDEAS BEHIND THE CATS. MAN, JAN JURGIELEWICZ SOUNDS FANTASTIC AND I COMMEND HIM HERE IN THIS SERIES 103 AND HONOR HIM AS A GREAT PLAYING DRUMMER ON THIS TUNE. THIS SHOULD BE A GREAT GROWTH "BASIS OF MEASUREMENT FOR HIS FUTURE PROGRESS AND A GOOD MEASUREMENT OF HOW QUICKLY PROFESSIONAL SOUNDING PLAYING CAN EVOLVE IF A PLAYER CONTINUES TO LOSE EGO AND WORK HARD ON UNDERSTANDING STRUCTURES OF TUNES AND COMPOSITION BY LISTENING HARD THEN INTERPRETING THROUGH SELF EXPRESSION. YEAH, THIS SESSION PART 2 IS A GREAT EXAMPLE OF JAN JURGIELEWICZ'S WONDERFUL PLAYING AND IT SHOWS HOW SUCCESSFUL Marvin Bu Ga Lu Smith's teaching methods are. We now have Jan and Andrew documented together here on this recording. Andrew sounds so great, as usual, on the third, swinging tune. I simply enjoyed every minute of both PART 1 and PART 2 of SERIES 103, Better Than Hollywood, THE MASTER SESSIONS OF MARVIN BU GA LU SMITH,ONE OF THE GREATEST DRUMMER/EDUCATORS IN THE WORLD, with over 1,000 videos like this one and all of them UNIQUELY SPECIAL!
LOVE ALWAYS and ALWAYS LOVE,
HABIB
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Steve Habib: Series 104 Master Sessions of Marvin Bu Ga Lu Smith with Dr. Ron Petrides, Ben Newsome and Lew Scott
Steve Habib: Series 104 Master Sessions of Marvin Bu Ga Lu Smith with Dr. Ron Petrides, Ben Newsome and Lew Scotthttp://www.vimeo.com/9932357
Friday, June 10, 2011
Monday, June 6, 2011
Series 103 PART 1 Marvin Bu Ga Lu Smith, Pierro Borri, Dave Schnitter,Lew Scott, Ron Petrides
This is "THE TRUTH BE TOLD, BETTER THAN HOLLYWOOD" Series # 103 PART 1 OF THE MASTER SESSIONS OF MARVIN BU GA LU SMITH
The evening was very special as the ALLSTAR LINE-UP OF PLAYERS were so intense. Marvin Bu Ga Lu Smith always has surprises and NOTHING IS REHEARSED, EVERYTHING IS IN THE SPLIT MOMENT, THE BLINK OF AN EYE, THE CONTINUOUS CHANGES AND COLORFUL,EMOTIONAL SOUND CONVERSATIONS THAT TAKE PLACE BETWEEN EACH PLAYER. THE ONLY THING LEFT OUT OF THIS SESSION ARE EGOS. MARVIN ALWAYS TEACHES THE STUDENTS TO LEAVE THEM AT THE FRONT DOOR. THE MASTER PLAYERS THAT ARE GATHERED HERE TONIGHT GREW UP WITH THOSE TEACHINGS AS DID MARVIN. The session starts out with Master Piero Borri playing drums and MASTER David Schnitter is on Tenor Sax with MASTER DR. RON PETRIDES ON GUITAR and MASTER LEW SCOTT ON BASS. The first song swings hard as David Schnitter plays the head and expresses himself beautifully, flowing and building up excitement playing harder than ever. I think Schnitter's background with Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers gave Dave such a strong foundation early in his career, now he has evolved into such a MAJOR PLAYER and is tremendous demand by his peers because of his individually developed way of communicating the most intense sounds to anybody that listens to him. Dave has a special gift of making that TENOR SAX SOUND LIKE A HUMAN VOICE, HIS OWN VOICE. Dave is one of my all time favorites and has earned the LEGENDARY TITLE OF MASTER IN MY BOOK. Just listen to the first 6 minutes of the first tune and see how he builds and builds and builds such "GOOSE BUMP EXCITEMENT." His beautiful tone is so rich and full of feeling, screaming out with JOY and HAPPINESS and also expressing some great balance between TRADITION and EXPERIMENTATION within the moment that exists between the SPLIT SECOND SILENCE OF SPACE NOTE AFTER NOTE. The music swings on that horn as he also has the drummer in mind beat after beat. When Dave is done with his conversation after 6 minutes of such colorful, harmonic sound, Master Ron Petrides answers those expressions with his idea of JOY. Ron starts building on what he heard coming from Dave and now the music continues down the path of HARD, SWINGING ADVENTURES AS MANY AVENUES ARE EXPLORED. Ron is continuosly resolving his statements and making it easy for each player to respond and keep everything on the move swinging harder and harder than before. Ron's sound is so unique on that guitar and his phrasing is so easy to understand. He always tries to keep the listener in mind because he has such an interesting story to tell and he uses that guitar to move your emotions in his direction. His sound and terrific CHOPS get your attention right away and you can't wait for the NEXT PHRASE and GROUPINGS OF IDEAS TO GO DOWN. In the meantime, Master Piero Borri interacts, comping beautifully on the drums and he has learned so much from MASTER MARVIN BU GA LU SMITH about playing "IN THE MOMENT, FLOWING AND ADAPTING TO CHANGE THAT Pierro is considered to be in great demand by his peers just like Master David Schnitter and MASTER DR. RON PETRIDES. Yes,Yes, Yes, Master Lew Scott solos beautifully like a LION IN THE WIND. He is so powerful and gentle at the same time. His pedal tones are always anchored and the chords that Ron lays down are beatifully backed by Lew's BASS TONES. Lew Scott is an in demand bass player because he is USER FRIENDLY. He is always a joy to swing with and he opens the door for new ideas to be easily expressed. I enjoyed the 12 bar exchanges in this piece of music and the wide open space that existed for everyone to breath through. Because the entire session had NATURAL BREATH and great excitement building throughout the evening IT WAS NO WONDER THAT BY THE TIME THE BAND WAS WARMED UP FOR BU GA LU BY THE SECONG SONG, Master Marvin Bu Ga Lu Smith showed everybody HIS MASTERFUL TOUCH AND SOUND SO UNIQUE TO HIM. Marvin gets a tone out of those drums that I've NEVER HEARD ANYONE ELSE GET. He is so smooth, gentle but also STRONG WITH FORCE WHEN FELT AND NEEDED. He changes like the wind and sounds like the wind with fire underneath it. He also is constantly changing mood when necessary. Marvin is one of the MOST CREATIVE and EXPRESSIVE DRUMMERS IN THE WORLD. HE ALSO TEACHES STUDENTS TO DEVELOP THEIR OWN UNIQUE SOUND AND CREATE FROM THEIR OWN IDEAS AND TO EXPOUND AND PUSH FORWARD WITH THINKING. HE TEACHES BALANCE, LOVE AND PEACE THROUGH ACTIONS OF COMPASSION. The music tonight represents in my mind, the FIGURE 8. If you draw a line on the horizon you see all the branches of the TREE ABOVE THE SURFACE but all THE ROOTS OF THE TREE THAT YOU DON'T SEE ARE STILL PRESENT and THEY ARE in the ground moving in the opposite direction and are as long as many of the branches causing BALANCE and keeping the TREE UPRIGHT. Yeah, Balance is always there in this music because the players are balanced and able to express that balance effortlessly because THEY ARE ALL MASTERS OF LIFE, TELLING THEIR STORY TO EACH OTHER WITH BEAUTIFUL SOUND VIBRATIONS. They told a wonderful story tonight and that story is documented here forever on this SERIES 103, one of over 1,000 performance teaching videos of Master Marvin Bu Ga Lu Smith. Marvin was written about in the Feb. 2011 issue of Modern Drummer Magazine and has been interviewed all over the world. Marvin has performed with all the MASTERS OF MUSIC and the proof is in the video of his drum students and DRUM CREW like Andrew Greeney, Jan Jurgielewicz, Fitzgerald Sam, Dougie Bueno and so many others that are now "ON THE SCENE". Piero Borri is one of Marvin's TOP STUDENTS. Piero came to the USA to visit Master Marvin and do The International Drum Workshop of the earlier Series 102 that was recorded a week ago and can also be viewed here on vimeo. I loved listening to this music and am honored to be called upon to write about it.
LOVE ALWAYS and ALWAYS LOVE,
HABIB
The evening was very special as the ALLSTAR LINE-UP OF PLAYERS were so intense. Marvin Bu Ga Lu Smith always has surprises and NOTHING IS REHEARSED, EVERYTHING IS IN THE SPLIT MOMENT, THE BLINK OF AN EYE, THE CONTINUOUS CHANGES AND COLORFUL,EMOTIONAL SOUND CONVERSATIONS THAT TAKE PLACE BETWEEN EACH PLAYER. THE ONLY THING LEFT OUT OF THIS SESSION ARE EGOS. MARVIN ALWAYS TEACHES THE STUDENTS TO LEAVE THEM AT THE FRONT DOOR. THE MASTER PLAYERS THAT ARE GATHERED HERE TONIGHT GREW UP WITH THOSE TEACHINGS AS DID MARVIN. The session starts out with Master Piero Borri playing drums and MASTER David Schnitter is on Tenor Sax with MASTER DR. RON PETRIDES ON GUITAR and MASTER LEW SCOTT ON BASS. The first song swings hard as David Schnitter plays the head and expresses himself beautifully, flowing and building up excitement playing harder than ever. I think Schnitter's background with Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers gave Dave such a strong foundation early in his career, now he has evolved into such a MAJOR PLAYER and is tremendous demand by his peers because of his individually developed way of communicating the most intense sounds to anybody that listens to him. Dave has a special gift of making that TENOR SAX SOUND LIKE A HUMAN VOICE, HIS OWN VOICE. Dave is one of my all time favorites and has earned the LEGENDARY TITLE OF MASTER IN MY BOOK. Just listen to the first 6 minutes of the first tune and see how he builds and builds and builds such "GOOSE BUMP EXCITEMENT." His beautiful tone is so rich and full of feeling, screaming out with JOY and HAPPINESS and also expressing some great balance between TRADITION and EXPERIMENTATION within the moment that exists between the SPLIT SECOND SILENCE OF SPACE NOTE AFTER NOTE. The music swings on that horn as he also has the drummer in mind beat after beat. When Dave is done with his conversation after 6 minutes of such colorful, harmonic sound, Master Ron Petrides answers those expressions with his idea of JOY. Ron starts building on what he heard coming from Dave and now the music continues down the path of HARD, SWINGING ADVENTURES AS MANY AVENUES ARE EXPLORED. Ron is continuosly resolving his statements and making it easy for each player to respond and keep everything on the move swinging harder and harder than before. Ron's sound is so unique on that guitar and his phrasing is so easy to understand. He always tries to keep the listener in mind because he has such an interesting story to tell and he uses that guitar to move your emotions in his direction. His sound and terrific CHOPS get your attention right away and you can't wait for the NEXT PHRASE and GROUPINGS OF IDEAS TO GO DOWN. In the meantime, Master Piero Borri interacts, comping beautifully on the drums and he has learned so much from MASTER MARVIN BU GA LU SMITH about playing "IN THE MOMENT, FLOWING AND ADAPTING TO CHANGE THAT Pierro is considered to be in great demand by his peers just like Master David Schnitter and MASTER DR. RON PETRIDES. Yes,Yes, Yes, Master Lew Scott solos beautifully like a LION IN THE WIND. He is so powerful and gentle at the same time. His pedal tones are always anchored and the chords that Ron lays down are beatifully backed by Lew's BASS TONES. Lew Scott is an in demand bass player because he is USER FRIENDLY. He is always a joy to swing with and he opens the door for new ideas to be easily expressed. I enjoyed the 12 bar exchanges in this piece of music and the wide open space that existed for everyone to breath through. Because the entire session had NATURAL BREATH and great excitement building throughout the evening IT WAS NO WONDER THAT BY THE TIME THE BAND WAS WARMED UP FOR BU GA LU BY THE SECONG SONG, Master Marvin Bu Ga Lu Smith showed everybody HIS MASTERFUL TOUCH AND SOUND SO UNIQUE TO HIM. Marvin gets a tone out of those drums that I've NEVER HEARD ANYONE ELSE GET. He is so smooth, gentle but also STRONG WITH FORCE WHEN FELT AND NEEDED. He changes like the wind and sounds like the wind with fire underneath it. He also is constantly changing mood when necessary. Marvin is one of the MOST CREATIVE and EXPRESSIVE DRUMMERS IN THE WORLD. HE ALSO TEACHES STUDENTS TO DEVELOP THEIR OWN UNIQUE SOUND AND CREATE FROM THEIR OWN IDEAS AND TO EXPOUND AND PUSH FORWARD WITH THINKING. HE TEACHES BALANCE, LOVE AND PEACE THROUGH ACTIONS OF COMPASSION. The music tonight represents in my mind, the FIGURE 8. If you draw a line on the horizon you see all the branches of the TREE ABOVE THE SURFACE but all THE ROOTS OF THE TREE THAT YOU DON'T SEE ARE STILL PRESENT and THEY ARE in the ground moving in the opposite direction and are as long as many of the branches causing BALANCE and keeping the TREE UPRIGHT. Yeah, Balance is always there in this music because the players are balanced and able to express that balance effortlessly because THEY ARE ALL MASTERS OF LIFE, TELLING THEIR STORY TO EACH OTHER WITH BEAUTIFUL SOUND VIBRATIONS. They told a wonderful story tonight and that story is documented here forever on this SERIES 103, one of over 1,000 performance teaching videos of Master Marvin Bu Ga Lu Smith. Marvin was written about in the Feb. 2011 issue of Modern Drummer Magazine and has been interviewed all over the world. Marvin has performed with all the MASTERS OF MUSIC and the proof is in the video of his drum students and DRUM CREW like Andrew Greeney, Jan Jurgielewicz, Fitzgerald Sam, Dougie Bueno and so many others that are now "ON THE SCENE". Piero Borri is one of Marvin's TOP STUDENTS. Piero came to the USA to visit Master Marvin and do The International Drum Workshop of the earlier Series 102 that was recorded a week ago and can also be viewed here on vimeo. I loved listening to this music and am honored to be called upon to write about it.
LOVE ALWAYS and ALWAYS LOVE,
HABIB
Sunday, June 5, 2011
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Listen how hard these brothers are swinging! Ben Newsome colors "MOANIN" but these Cats aren't MOANIN, they're FLOATING and moving effortlessly. After the HEAD, DR. RON PETRIDES takes over and slides through dozens of highly emotional colors as Master Marvin Bu Ga Lu Smith and Lew Scott hold down the groove and interact with Ron, continuously adding more and more dimension to the already highly expressive lines of MASTER RON PETRIDES. The Doctor is one of the FINEST guitarists in the world and needs to be noticed more along with Ben Newsome and Lew Scott. Marvin Bu Ga Lu Smith continues these MASTER SESSIONS for the purpose of exposing his students to players like these MASTERS every week at his personal recording facility on Talmadge Street in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Players and listeners come from all over, traveling to be around this genius musical giant who also MIXES and ENGINEERS his own videos of every performance. He now has well over 1,000 of these, FAR MORE THAN ANYONE I EVER HEARD OF. In the first song, you can hear Marvin's UNIQUE DRUM SOLO and HIGHLY COLORFUL PLAYING. It's no wonder why he was written up in February 2011 ISSUE OF MODERN DRUMMER MAGAZINE. This Series 104 continues the MASTER SESSIONS OF The Truth Be Told Better Than Hollywood.
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Listen how hard these brothers are swinging! Ben Newsome colors "THE WORK SONG" but these Cats aren't working, they're FLOATING and moving effortlessly. After the HEAD, DR. RON PETRIDES takes over and slides through dozens of highly emotional colors as Master Marvin Bu Ga Lu Smith and Lew Scott hold down the groove and interact with Ron, continuously adding more and more dimension to the already highly expressive lines of MASTER RON PETRIDES. The Doctor is one of the FINEST guitarists in the world and needs to be noticed more along with Ben Newsome and Lew Scott. Marvin Bu Ga Lu Smith continues these MASTER SESSIONS for the purpose of exposing his students to players like these MASTERS every week at his personal recording facility on Talmadge Street in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Players and listeners come from all over, traveling to be around this genius musical giant who also MIXES and ENGINEERS his own videos of every performance. He now has well over 1,000 of these, FAR MORE THAN ANYONE I EVER HEARD OF. In the first song, you can hear Marvin's UNIQUE DRUM SOLO and HIGHLY COLORFUL PLAYING. It's no wonder why he was written up in February 2011 ISSUE OF MODERN DRUMMER MAGAZINE. This Series 104 continues the MASTER SESSIONS OF The Truth Be Told Better Than Hollywood.THE SECOND SONG starts out with an EXPLOSIVE DRUM SOLO BY MARVIN and shattering harmonic tones of beauty by young master Newsome, one of the greatest of the up and coming Tenor Players in their 20's. Yeah, simply sit back and ENJOY THE PASSION OF JAZZ and JAZZ DRUM TEACHING AT IT'S BEST. Keep a sharp ear and eye out for both Dr. Ron Petrides and Ben Newsome. Both of these players deserve much more recognition than ever before as they are so intense and so spiritually deep in their playing approaches. Thanks to Master Marvin Bu Ga Lu Smith for introducing these guys to the world along with Jan Jurgielewicz and Andrew Greeney, two of Marvin's top students and we certainly thank Marvin for helping develop the Italian Master, Piero Borri who recently did an International Drum Workshop with Marvin several weeks ago. It was documented on vimeo.com/bugalusmith along with all the other teaching sessions and performances.
Listen carefully to the Latin Groove laid down by Lew Scott and Marvin. The entire session is A WINNER because it tells TRUTH with NOTHING HIDDEN. Newsome's solo work on the Latin Tune is simply AMAZING. Ron Petrides solos are always surprising and Marvin is THE MASTER OF FLOW. Lew Scott is such a sensitive and grooving bass player. It's all hear for the listening. Let your ears receive the beauty!
LOVE ALWAYS and ALWAYS LOVE,
HABIB
THE SECOND SONG starts out with an EXPLOSIVE DRUM SOLO BY MARVIN and shattering harmonic tones of beauty by young master Newsome, one of the greatest of the up and coming Tenor Players in their 20's. Yeah, simply sit back and ENJOY THE PASSION OF JAZZ and JAZZ DRUM TEACHING AT IT'S BEST. Keep a sharp ear and eye out for both Dr. Ron Petrides and Ben Newsome. Both of these players deserve much more recognition than ever before as they are so intense and so spiritually deep in their playing approaches. Thanks to Master Marvin Bu Ga Lu Smith for introducing these guys to the world along with Jan Jurgielewicz and Andrew Greeney, two of Marvin's top students and we certainly thank Marvin for helping develop the Italian Master, Piero Borri who recently did an International Drum Workshop with Marvin several weeks ago. It was documented on vimeo.com/bugalusmith along with all the other teaching sessions and performances.
Listen carefully to the Latin Groove laid down by Lew Scott and Marvin. The entire session is A WINNER because it tells TRUTH with NOTHING HIDDEN. Newsome's solo work on the Latin Tune is simply AMAZING. Ron Petrides solos are always surprising and Marvin is THE MASTER OF FLOW. Lew Scott is such a sensitive and grooving bass player. It's all hear for the listening. Let your ears receive the beauty!
LOVE ALWAYS and ALWAYS LOVE,
HABIB