John Coltrane - Resolution - 1965 Live Video

John Coltrane - My Favorite Things 1965

Series 116 PART 2, TEACHING MUGGY, MARVIN SMITH'S STUDENT

Series 116 PART 2 is all about ACTUAL PROOF. All of Marvin Smith's Videos show students what to do as a DRUM COMMUNICATOR. This particular example shows how a young student of Marvin's from Germany learned how to listen, observe and execute what the MASTER SMITH TAUGHT HIM in the short 3 years of their relationship. "MUGGY" as he's known, has only been playing drums for 3 YEARS but he has taken the time to study hard and do the required work that it takes to become ONE OF MARVIN SMITH'S FINEST STUDENTS. I don't think I'VE EVER HEARD A STUDENT SOUND SO WELL AFTER ONLY THREE YEARS OF EXPOSURE TO THE INSTRUMENT. HE FLOWS THE WAY MARVIN FLOWS BECAUSE HE HAS NO OBSTACLES IN HIS WAS. Marvin has been effective teaching MUGGY because MUGGY has an ability to THROW HIS EGO DOWN THE DRAIN AND ABSORB EVERYTHING HE HEARS AROUND HIM. HE ALSO IS INTERACTIVE WITHOUT LOOKING FOR APPLAUSE. I AM SI IMPRESSED WITH THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MARVIN SMITH'S TEACHING THAT I WOULD ENCOURAGE ANY SERIOUS DRUM STUDENT TO START TO ACTUALLY "LIVE THE LIFE OF MUSIC EVERY MOMENT". This is not a secondary thing. Drumming means also learning about songs and the structure of songs. Drumming means sacrifice and as you can witness here by listening to this wonderful student perform, IT CAN BE DONE and MARVIN SMITH'S TEACHINGS WORK AND THEY WORK QUICKLY AS THIS VIDEO SHOWS PROOF OF THAT. LISTEN TO THIS VIDEO SEVERAL TIMES BECAUSE IT WILL SHOW MANY OF THE INTRICACIES OF MARVIN'S ABILITY TO "BRING OUT THE INDIVIDUALISM OF WHO YOU ARE AS A PERSON". Yeah, MUGGY SOUNDS LIKE MUGGY. HE'S FOUND "HIS VOICE" IN A SHORT THREE YEARS OF STUDYING WITH MARVIN AND WORKING HARD WITH A "FULL TIME EFFORT"! HATS OFF TO MASTER MARVIN BU GA LU SMITH AND HIS GREAT STUDENT, MUGGY. LOVE ALWAYS and ALWAYS LOVE, HABIB

SERIES 116 Master Sessions Of Marvin Smith Featuring CHRIS PASIN and ROBERT KOPEC

Series #116 PART 1 "BETTER THAN HOLLYWOOD" THE MASTER SESSIONS Of Marvin Bu Ga Lu Smith Featuring Chris Pasin and Robert Kopec Folks, it's AUTOMATIC PILOT once again as you listen carefully to THE GREAT FLOW that comes from Marvin Smith. This music is so real and IN THE MOMENT that all you have to do is LET YOURSELF GO and think of nothing. Simply sit back and allow yourself to VANISH, losing all thoughts of anything that might interfere with your NATURAL GOODNESS and THE UNIQUENESS that makes you as UNIQUE as each of these three MASTER MUSICIANS. Marvin has once again picked "A CHERRY" to go on top of his ICE CREAM SUNDAE. Chris Pasin, is one of the finest TRUMPET PLAYERS that I have heard in a long time. His smooth, deep feeling is present through every CLUSTER of notes that come out of his horn. Chris has that individual sound which identifies him as one of the GREAT TRUMPET MASTERS. Marvin Smith has a way of gathering great players into his new 48 track studio on Talmadge Street in Poughkeepsie, NY. Robert Kopec has a very special sound on the bass. You can feel a genuine voice of GOODNESS and LOVE throughout this RECORDING as he blends together with Marvin's beautiful grooves and expresses himself by pulling so colorfully on his bass, voicing harmonically and driving the music along with Marvin, into a NEW SPIRITUAL ZONE, BAR AFTER BAR of GOOSE BUMP DEPTH! I Loved the way PASIN DEVELOPS PHRASES and executes them with SMOOTH FIRE that becomes easy to understand. Chris seems to have a special way of making some of the most intense statements easy for anyone to understand. The listener is taken on a MUSICAL VACATION on Series 116 of Marvin's MASTER SESSION THAT IS TRULY, "BETTER THAN HOLLYWOOD". Marvin Smith has done it once again. He has put together another example of "IN THE MOMENT/ MOMENT TO MOMENT, UNREHEARSED, IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE" MUSIC THAT WILL HEAL YOU. This music has such a positive effect on your ears as it becomes EAR CANDY as you listen to it. It will make you feel JOYFUL, especially if you listen to it several times as it will tell a different story every time you hear it, just the way A GREAT PAINTING SPEAKS TO YOU DIFFERENTLY EVERY TIME YOU VIEW IT. I am so delighted to be IN THE MOMENT with Marvin, Chris and Robert as I allow them to push me into such a powerful healing zone that this music represents. I feel better after hearing this music than I did an hour before listening to it. I hope you can throw away all your problems and allow Marvin Smith, Chris Pasin and Robert Kopec touch your INNER SELF! HABIB has felt so warmed over by this entire performance, loving all three of these guys playing so together. It seems ironic that the three of them played three songs and the underlying feeling has such a great breath of freshness that keeps THE SOUL FOCUSED and brings forth what I like to call "SOUND FOOD FOR THE SOUL" If a listener concentrates on NOT CONCENTRAING, BUT LET'S THINGS BE NATURALLY WHAT THEY ARE, THEN HEALING TAKES PLACE. It is so,so healing as all three of these songs have so much to say and show such a wide array of emotions throughout this Series 116 Journey. I loved the SOLAR PIECE and then, all of a sudden we're somewhere else. Things are always changing throughout this session. The solo work by KOPEC IS AMAZING and the dynamics of MARVIN'S PLAYING TURN EVERY STONE, INCLUDING ALL THE LITTLE PEBBLES OVER WITH NOTHING LEFT OUT! Chris Pasin has his own unique statements and shows his diversity on each of these tunes. I especially liked his great tone on the last tune. SUCH GREAT VIBRATIONS OF JOY COMES THROUGH THIS. IT IS ALL STATED IN 25 MINUTES OF MARVELOUS EXPRESSIONS. Yeah, SOLAR HOOKED ME RIGHT AT THE START OF THE EVENING, OR, MAYBE IT'S MORNING AND THE BIRDS AREN'T SINGING BECAUSE THEY'RE LISTENING TO THESE CATS SINGING! LOVE ALWAYS AND ALWAYS LOVE, HABIB

SERIES 116 Master Sessions Of Marvin Smith Featuring CHRIS PASIN and ROBERT KOPEC

Steve Habib... MUSIC AS A HEALING MEDICINE...HIS OWN EXPERIENCE

This article was written using his own life as a journey through medical problems and matters of the heart and human emotions, 9/8/11 NYC,NY Steve Habib uses MUSIC THERAPY on himself. He has been doing it for over 20 years after having major open heart surgery in 1991 at Mt. Sinai Hospital in NYC. After complications from an 8 hour procedure, HABIB almost died after developing Chronic Osteomylitis(MRSA) and he still has this condition today. Two years ago he was hit by a car as a pedestrian walking across a street in New York. Since then, his physical pains are unimaginable and he resorts to his familiarity with music as a HEALING MEDICINE. Steve composes music that has worked on him. He also is involved with Master Drummer/Composer/Educator Marvin Bu Ga Lu Smith, his personal friend for over 42 years. Together, they have explored music within DRUM GROUP PROJECTS and many Quartet, Quintet, Sextet and large orchestral formats. Both of these musicians are known in the music field and have been involved with efforts to preserve Jazz Music Tradition by educating younger players to the TRUTH BEHIND THE MUSIC, NAMELY, COMPASSION FOR OTHERS and the elimination of SELF DESIRED RECOGNITION and EGOS, replacing all the BULLSHIT OF HOLLYWOOD and COMMERCIALISM with individual PEOPLE CONCERNS. They are as much concerned about strangers as they are with their families and close friends. You see, Marvin Smith and Steve Habib are THE REAL DEAL and their musical ideas are working. Steve is LIVING PROOF that music can be healing medicine and can alter the body's chemistry naturally stimulating THE BRAIN to manufacture the needed medicine to relax a person and take away pain. Smith is a natural and you can see this watching his almost 1500 music videos many that are viewed on vimeo.com.bugalusmith Every Tuesday evening in his personal 48 track studio he records performances that are called MASTER SESSIONS, "BETTER THAN HOLLYWOOD" and these videos have become one of the largest collections of performances documented by any musical artist. Habib has written much about this music and has performed on several of Marvin's videos with him. So many great masterful players have joined Marvin and young players have the opportunity to "RUB SHOULDERS" with experienced music legends and geniuses. In the old days, it was common for young players to go to jam sessions and see folks like Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers along with John Coltrane, Duke Ellington and so many others that both Marvin Smith and Steve Habib had the opportunity to do. Marvin Smith,Andrew Greeney, Jan Jurgielewicz, Piero Borri, Muggy and many others, have all played an important role in Marvin Smith's organizing music for TRUTH with COMPASSION. Habib honors this and wants folks to know how very important music is as a healing process that all people can utilize as an alternative to just running to the medicine cabinet and looking for a magic pill that will heal them. It all starts with knowledge of oneself and avoiding BULLSHITTING ONESELF INTO THINKING "ME,MINE,ALL ABOUT ME" and NOBODY ELSE! Losing THE EGO helps a person find INNER STRENGTH and the ability to laugh at one's self. Laughter also plays an important part of DEVELOPING A POSITIVE ATTITUDE ABOUT EVERYTHING. LIVING "MOMENT TO MOMENT" is another way of appreciating every second of LIFE and being grateful for TODAY. TOMORROW MIGHT NEVER APPEAR. Don't forget Earthquakes,Hurricanes and other events that effect us all in addition to illnesses,divorces,financial problems and so many other things. MUSIC CAN AND WILL BRING PEACE UNIVERSALLY AS IT IS THE LANGUAGE THAT ALL THE WORLD CAN UNDERSTAND. IT CAN BE PERFORMED WITH BALANCE IF A MUSICIAN TUNES INTO THE ETERNAL TRUTH IN HIS HEART! LOVE ALWAYS and ALWAYS LOVE, HABIB

Thoughts I Used As Healing Medicine

I hope that my notes of conversations with myself is of value to others. Floating Floating can be an effective relaxation technique. Imagine you're floating on air. Picture yourself floating like a falling leaf, or riding down a long escalator. The lower you float, the calmer you are. Practice any of these relaxation techniques as often as you like. Creating Pictures Think of an object that you find simple and pleasing. Study every detail in your mind. Or picture a color shifting into beautiful patterns and hues, blending and changing. Imagine a quiet setting — snowflakes softly falling or a spring day in the country, with cows and horses grazing in a meadow. Feel the picture by engaging all of your senses. If you’re on the beach, feel the sun on your face, your toes in the sand, the breeze on your skin, the ocean air smell. Breathing Inhale deeply through your nose. Then pucker your lips, and exhale slowly. Breathe out as long as possible. Imagine the sound of your breath exhaling is tension draining from your body. One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon--instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. Sometimes you have to be strong when you feel like giving up, you have to fight when you just want to run away. Sometimes it’s all you can do just to keep going. And sometimes you just have to let the bridge break. Let the tears flow and start over. Remember, no matter how bad things are at any one moment, no moment lasts. Good or bad, time moves on because it has to. And so do you. You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you. You can't fix people OR change them...the ONLY person you have power over is YOURSELF!! A lot of times we spend so much time concentrating on what is wrong in our life instead of on what is going right. No matter what you have done for yourself, or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family,friends, and strangers, what have you really accomplished. I HOPE MY INNER CONVERSATIONS WITH MYSELF CAN BE VALUABLE TO OTHERS. LOVE ALWAYS and ALWAYS LOVE, HABIB