Series # 119 Master Sessions Of Dr. Marvin Smith with Dr. Ron Petrides and Robert Kopec

The Series # 119 opens up with such a great warmth as Dr. Ron Petrides plays so beautifully on this slow to medium groove. You can hear birds flying high over the ocean and gentle wind blowing across the waves as DR. MARVIN SMITH'S light touch on the cymbals represents THE WIND and also THE FIRE underneath it all.IT IS GREAT TO HEAR MARVIN SMITH'S TIGHT SOLO WORK THROUGHOUT ALL FOUR TUNES PLAYED, ESPECIALLY LISTENING TO HIS SPECIAL SOUND THAT ONLY HE CAN GET ON A DRUM. MARVIN'S UNIQUE PLAYING HAS SO MUCH COLOR AND THAT "TOUCH" THAT I KEEP TALKING ABOUT IS SPECIAL BECAUSE I'VE NEVER HEARD A DRUMMER ACHIEVE SUCH POWER AND YET HE IS TRULY PLAYING A LOT LIGHTER THAN YOU THINK HE IS. YOU CAN SEE IT IN HIS AURA EVERYTIME. MASTER Robert Kopec adds so much DEPTH to the INTENSIVE DANCE THAT ALL THREE START DOING and it continues to move like this through all parts of this series. I wasn't feeling very well prior to hearing this session but after the almost 45 minutes of pleasure I started to respond to all THE DANCING and CONVERSATION THAT WAS GOING ON. Robert KOPEC'S SOLOS reached far into my heart and I was able to better understand myself a little more as I "LET MYSELF GO" and then Marvin TRADED WITH ROBERT and Marvin FIRED OFF BEAUTIFUL, COLORFUL STATEMENTS OF EXPRESSION MAKING DRUM SOUNDS BECOME ACTUAL MRLODIES OF LOVE. I was so moved forward into a FLOATING ZONE OF BETTER UNDERSTANDING ABOUT MUSICAL VOICE EXCHANGES BETWEEN MUSICIANS. I think that anyone allowing themselves to BE FREE of their own egos can actually better understand music and become the music. I see it here in Series 119 as I do in all of Dr. Marvin Smith's 1200+ videos. It seems that there's a special LOVE everytime I hear Marvin Smith's MUSICAL SESSIONS and I want all people to know how special this music is because it is MEDICINE FOR ME and IT CAN BE FOR ALL OF YOU IF YOU WANT IT TO REACH INTO YOU AND BECOME A SOUND PILL FOR WHAT MIGHT BE BOTHERING YOU. The last song picks the pace up and you hear Dr. Marvin Trading with Ron and Robert as he FIRES OFF CRISP TONES OF WARMTH, AND HIS SOLO TAKES YOU BACK TO THE MELODY LINE EVERY TIME. If I could get across to you, the listener that it is important to pay close attention to this LIVING LEGEND, DR. MARVIN SMITH WHILE HE IS ON EARTH AND AVAILABLE TO ALL OF US, THAN I AM SATISFIED BEYOND EVERYTHING. I WILL CONTINUE TO TELL THE DR. MARVIN SMITH STORY TO EVERYONE, CONTINUOUSLY, NONSTOP, IN THE MOMENT AND COMPLETELY UNREHEARSED, JUST LIKE EACH NOTE OF THIS SESSION. After spending almost 45 minutes with Dr. Marvin Smith, Dr. Ron Petrides and Master Robert Kopec and this MASTER SESSION # 119, I am now ready to really start a beautiful day because this music woke me up to the reality of how important MUSIC is in your everyday life, especially when IT'S MOMENT TO MOMENT without any rehearsing. That's the way it is here, all the time and TIME IS TRULY THE MASTER OF YOUR LIFE and the CANVASS THAT WE ALL DANCE ON. YEAH, IT DON'T GET BETTER THAN THIS. EVEN BEFORE I LISTENED TO THESE TRACKS, I was able to hear them because they traveled through the air from Tuesday evening until the time I opened them up early Saturday morning. Now I'm ready to go tell everyone how great this session is and how beautifully documented it is. WOW,WOW,WOW! LOVE ALWAYS and ALWAYS LOVE, HABIB

My Experiences That Have Helped Me Might Help You

My Experiences That Have Helped Me Might Help You

Music, Pharmaceutical Companies Worst Enemy

I will be starting a series of articles about the effects of music on the brain and how people have had healing results listening to music as well as performing it. I myself have been actually healed in many ways by performing,composing and listening to music. It seems that music has its own unique way of entering the cells in the body, starting with the brain and all the body's senses filtering the goodness of sound vibrations and healing colors as music is being played,composed and listened to. Jazz is my music and I've been involved with it for over 55 years. I will actually get into some serious examples of how I have been effected by music since I was a young child growing up hanging around with John Coltrane, Elvin Jones,Hank Jones,Thad Jones,Mel Lewis,Jimmy Garrison and so many others. I will also talk about my growing up living with Duke Ellington's family, Ruth Ellington, Steve James, Michael James,Mercer Ellington and hanging around Duke Ellington's publishing company during my teen years. I will talk about all my lifetime experiences in music so that others who might have experienced illnesses,injury from accidents, divorces,losses of loved ones,hard financial times and other traumatic events, might benefit from what I have discovered in my own trials which are not formal medical trials as I am only one person in the trial and not thousands that are required to get FDA approval for MUSIC AS A HEALING DRUG. It should prove to be interesting. All musicians are invited to post or send information about your own experiences and perhaps we will be able to document and do a trial of our own within the Jazz Field, avoiding all the corporate, political and business bullshit that is typical to get valuable information across to medical practitioners.