You're the man, Dave. I love listening & watching you play. Wish I still lived in New York (and had more time to devote to practice), I would definitely seek you out for piano lessons.
In my History of Jazz class back in 1974 at Queens College (CUNY), the instructor, Rudi Blesh (1899-1985), presented "C Minor Complex" as "truly Third Stream, an authentically different style from traditional jazz and classical." Blesh spent a bit of time time dissing Baroque-style fugues and artificial suites written by jazzers, noting that they seemed forced and sycophantically sucking-up to big brother classical. Now, with some historical perspective, I wouldn't say that Blesh was 100% correct about this, but he recognized this piece as one of the crowning achievements of improvised jazz. Blesh always stressed that he was not a musician, something borne out only once at the beginning of the semester, when he barely played a C major triad and compared it to a C minor triad. Thanks for this wonderful, enlightening lesson, one that I've been waiting 45 years to hear.
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Maybe it's a localization thing but I feel like "New York" is too hard to say over and over lol. I live in Nebraska, so if I were gonna do this I'd use "Lincoln" for eighth notes and "Omaha" for triplets. I've tried these mnemonics though and they just trip me up. Someone told me "pass the goddamn salt" was how you play fives and I couldn't do it for a month. lol
You, and what you play and share, is just such an incredible resource. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
You're the man, Dave. I love listening & watching you play. Wish I still lived in New York (and had more time to devote to practice), I would definitely seek you out for piano lessons.
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In my History of Jazz class back in 1974 at Queens College (CUNY), the instructor, Rudi Blesh (1899-1985), presented "C Minor Complex" as "truly Third Stream, an authentically different style from traditional jazz and classical." Blesh spent a bit of time time dissing Baroque-style fugues and artificial suites written by jazzers, noting that they seemed forced and sycophantically sucking-up to big brother classical. Now, with some historical perspective, I wouldn't say that Blesh was 100% correct about this, but he recognized this piece as one of the crowning achievements of improvised jazz.
Blesh always stressed that he was not a musician, something borne out only once at the beginning of the semester, when he barely played a C major triad and compared it to a C minor triad. Thanks for this wonderful, enlightening lesson, one that I've been waiting 45 years to hear.
thanks for writing) Please enjoy a visit to the master class archive at www.davefrankjazz.com for 50 in-depth master classes (4 more about Lennie), all free for thee.
gr8 compliment to your other "Lennie's from C minor Heaven" class, thanks D
I Remember You...great lesson. Thank you.
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Brilliant playing, including humming !
haha
So very nice. Thanks! I like your humming the melody. It's an historical practice.
Just wonderful!
Thank you Dave & Professor Cornicello. That was amazing.
were you there?
Perfectly explained. Thanks for this work.
Brilliant presentation. Illumination. Listen! Hear! Learn! Frank is ... frank. The master teaches.
Awesome Dave... thanks for the insight there !!
$2 Charles
The humming is Dave improvising , as a bassist I do it all the time
I wish it would stop.
I thought it was you while you were playing ?
@@aflessas yes, it's involutary as you said..
@@DaveFrank If it ain't broke , don't fix it . I'll never stop
This is great! (Okay, I was there for the taping of this...)
you were?
Hey, there's my bald dome at 45:29!
hey it's YOU!
It is awesome.
Thanks again
Great pianism
for sure)
I listened a part of Lennie
did you like it?
@@DaveFrank absolutely!
@@frederickkk1985 haha
Is that Dave frank or Keith Jarrett?
Keith is in good shape)
Nice playing in the beginning. My favorite part was when you went _HHmmmmm hhmmmmm hmm hhmmm hmmmm hmmmmmmhhmmm hmmmmm..._
maxcohen13: Someone forgot to turn off his lapel mic.
that was my favorite part also
we'll see if we can correct that, thanks for writing
What is that hum? Maybe the guy with the camera?
Maybe it's a localization thing but I feel like "New York" is too hard to say over and over lol. I live in Nebraska, so if I were gonna do this I'd use "Lincoln" for eighth notes and "Omaha" for triplets. I've tried these mnemonics though and they just trip me up. Someone told me "pass the goddamn salt" was how you play fives and I couldn't do it for a month. lol
yeah, Lincoln and Omaha swings!
27:05 - J.S.Bach? ;)
There's an annoying hum. Can that be corrected?
working on that
i think it's his singing
slice of pizza
definately
TOO MUCH HMMMM AND LESS PIANO
ok.
his singing does't help
Man, that humming is really disturbing....too bad :-(