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Here is an in-depth class on Dark Star for your perusal:

This Wednesday with Dave, free lesson hangout 12 - 1 30 pm nyc time For the last 2 months I have been hosting a weekly free lesson hangout on the Zoom video platform. Usually between 10 -15 students from around the globe have been joining me every week, and we are having a ball! If you would like to join us, come by to say hello, play, ask questions or throw tomatoes at the screen, click on this link: https://zoom.us/j/5674638589 and you will be taken immediately to the proceedings. Blessings and keep swingin from NYC!

You may enjoy this master class with the great man)

In-depth Chick Corea master class. https://youtu.be/OmNI8HuPhDM HAPPY Birthday to the GREAT CHICK!! Free.

This in-depth Dark Star master class is for all of youse)

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Hi fellow felt freaks, you may enjoy this recent master class on the GREAT Keith Jarrett, it focuses on the concepts of his playing on the duo record Jasmine with Charlie Haden, and was recorded at Mezzrow in NYC last month. Free for thee. https://youtu.be/U3FEBz5fby8 Happy Harmonica, Dave Frank

*NEW* and free for thee) https://youtu.be/0N22x8tzaHw

Hi friends, I'd like to invite you to a taping of a solo concert by yours truly and master class on the great playing of Lyle Mays with the Pat Metheny Group. We'll be analyzing Lyle's fantastic solo on the tune First Circle. At Mezzrow in the Village at a lovely time, Sat 5/30 from 4-6 PM. There is a 17 drink minimum. Blessings and keep swingin! Dave Frank

I'm about half way through the first part. This is really terrific, great story-telling and wonderful clips/interviews)

Monday is a fine day for a FESTIVAL! https://youtu.be/R17Og34jd3E

WOW! What year did Billie die? Leonard plays ok! Deep insight into Billie's incredible musicality and whacko state..

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wild communication, thanks

Yeah he was great, I saw him also about 20 years ago, it was beautiful.

yeah, definately don't bag out of work for this)

I was wondering whether any of this would come up. There's a bit more going on than presenting I artist I dig..Full disclosure - the track is a recent session recording of me and him as it happened haha.. I think his playing is spectacular here. DF

Enjoy listening to one of the GREAT saxophonists of our time. Not very well known in the Western Hemisphere. https://youtu.be/6dLZGrUX-j0

A short film for Lovers of jazz piano and NYC!! http://youtu.be/XMHm4wKsBYE

If you DIGG Erroll, you may have a wonderful time with this in-depth look at his playing. Free)

You fellas may enjoy this in-depth class on developing the ability to improvise a walking bassline. Free for thee)

Yeah, you're nuts man) It's like folks that criticize some of Keith's playing..why?..because it wasn't as good as some *other* of his playing! What Bill was doing in these precious moments in his life was so original, so groundbreaking, so beautiful that to even think along the terms you are describing is a drag and a waste. I'm sorry his absolute total original creative genius at this particular early, seminal moment of his evolution doesn't excite you as much as some other of his playing.

Jimmy Halperin will be playing live next Saturday, 2/7 from 9-11 at the Somethin' Jazz Cafe, 212 E 52nd St. in Manhattan with the Brothers of Contrapuntal Swing.

Lennie was a very critical cat. Looking back, he had a positive function in his criticisms to keep musical standards high, but I think that he was overly critical alot of the time. He told me that "Bill Evans has some nice chords, but they are all worked out", for example. I gave him Now he Sings Now He Sobs, and all he told me that "Chick's comping chords were too staccato in the LH". He definately despised much of the FREE JAZZ thing in the 60's, telling us it was "all emotion, no feeling". I can dig where he was coming from because everybody was buying into alot of the bullshit free jazz stuff that was going on, but still I think he was overcritical in general.. Dave Frank