Trumptastic!

That was the most insightful interview if seen online.

This Dark Star from 1969 is a sublime masterpiece and the most beautiful music I've ever heard. It resides in a dimension of its own. It not only changed the way I perceived music when I first heard this the year it was released when I was 16 but also the way I perceived the universe. It has the power to change consciousness itself. Even the Dead were amazed at what they delivered that night. It's channeled music at the highest level.

Just wondering, Mr. Dave, working with a bassist playing, say, walking lines, what, if anything, would you want him/her to be playing when you went outside like that? When rehearsing, or if they could hear you drifting away on the bandstand. What a great lesson!

THIS - is how its done!

Killer playing as always, Mr. Frank. Hope your loved ones and you have a good holiday if you celebrate it!

Softly as in a morning sunrise! been listen to Sonny Clark's trio version and this is a great and more nuanced version!

Superb❤

Very good indeed 🎄🙏🇩🇰🇫🇴

✌ 🎹 😎

Thank you, Maestro 💐🌟🔥🌟💐

I was captivated by Tunisia 🩵 I don't know much about real jazz, but I learned a lot from the cool performance 🙅 And... this is the first time I've heard this song... but it feels really good ☺️🔔

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Holy shit man this man is a genius !

What an interesting talk !! ❤

Dave, I keep waiting for you to answer the most fundamental question that you posed at the beginning of Part 1. When improvising, "where do the notes come from?" You give us a formula for knowing which notes are "legal" to play. For example, within a 2-5-1 progression, any note from the scale of the 1 chord "works", ie. can be used successfully. But which notes, and in what combinations? Is it completely arbitrary at that point? That seems to be the way many amateur pianists (and especially guitarists in my experience) approach the problem of improvising. As long as it's in the scale, any note will do. But then in Part 2, you casually mention that it might be helpful to sing along as we play. This gets to the crux of the issue. Have you imagined the notes before you play them, and that's why it's possible to sing them too? Are you in fact improvising melodies in your imagination first, and only then, in real time, playing the imagined melody by ear, so to speak? You fail to get at this question in your videos. Where do the notes come from? Are we, in addition to knowing all of the harmonic theory you discuss, expected to have a musical imagination as well? In that case, perhaps the best way to begin improvising is to sing an improvised melody along with the left hand comping first, without trying to play the notes on the piano.

So angry...my wife is cooking rice&beans and I wanted pizzaaaa..... However I started singing rice and beans and rice and beans and .... And it works!!!! Thank uuuu 🎵Rice and beans and rice and rice and beans and rice...🎵

It was a great weekend!

This lesson is a present for the humanity

We moderns do not quite understand the roots of the Marx Brothers' eccentricity and humor, which their contemporaries understood without further explanation. In their performances, they mock not piano playing as such, not pianists as a profession, but the manner of "romantic performance" known since the time of Franz Liszt, which reached the point of absurdity in the performances of Bela Bartok, who considered the piano a "percussion instrument." Romantic pianists, whose outward characteristic attributes are presented in the parody performances of the Marx Brothers (black tailcoats, shirt fronts with cuffs, top hats, tousled hair, neurotic-egocentric behavior, etc.) did not play the piano, but threw themselves at the piano, fought with the piano and destroyed the piano, thereby expressing the storm of unreasonable emotions that constantly overwhelmed them. Such pianists in the 20s and 30s willingly gave concerts in the USA with extensive programs, taking advantage of the fact that the local piano school was not yet developed, and the city audience, consisting of first-generation European emigrants, craved the European entertainments familiar to their "past life", filling concert halls. At the same time, in Europe itself of those years, the genre and tradition of the piano concerto, which existed throughout the 19th century, became a thing of the past and were replaced by various kinds of "creative searches" for new forms, methods, sounds, timbres and performance techniques in music, leaving classically educated pianists without permanent work. And they, like migratory birds, flew and swam across the ocean to the USA, where they were ridiculed by the Marx Brothers.

Go Snoopy forever! 🎉❤😊 am so wowed by your talent Dave Frank,,, just recently found your books with such beautiful themes & motifs💕💕 Thank you for your authenticity & such beautiful music! PS Please come to Nashville,,,the best jazz club here is Rudy’s.

Killer playing as always, Mr. Frank! Seems like your LH can do anything and is truly free. I saw you go through several techniques you have mentioned in improv vids/lesson(eg. Walking basslines, chord strums to the beat, the blues shuffle idea, scalular playing etc.) I hope one day to have a locked in left hand like that!

new york New York....dirty dirty dirty dirty hahah great lesson man! thank you

I enjoyed that, Dave. The freedom you have with improv is nice to watch.

Let me explain mysef. Jarret did swing when he was with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers; however, that was the 1960's. Since then then has not played anything that swings. Not that he can't, but he has chosen not too. I like classical Jazz, but swing sometimes!!

Effin' genius! I have "homework" 2 do🤫. He's unique .. some suggest his chronic condition actually fuelled his genius .. whatever .. he's been a fav gtrst/muso 4 me since the mid-70s. (Wes is another .. & luckily we still have George Benson). I havvan idea .. betta get 2 it😝

Great Masterclass❤

The second piece you played before you started the actual Frank Zappa masterclass is really beautiful ❤

Bruce Hornsby (especially with the Range) is one of my all time favorite musicians, the songs he created with the Range are of sheer beauty - e.g. The Road Not Taken - one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard or Swan Song - what a master musician he is (equally strong on piano, vocals, composition, improvising)❤❤❤

Thank you Dave - great teaching❤

"Mechanization of America" - this belongs in a movie.

I can never get enough of :Snow Fall on Fifth Avenue." A truly descriptive piano painting. I picture and actually can feel it - having walked down Fifth Avenue in the snow oh so many times. I Love love love this piece. What I wouldn't give to have the transcription for this and "Rosseau's World." I would pay for it. I am certain all of you pianists would want it also.

Your enthusiasm is wonderful. I myself can't choose a single greatest or even a favorite, but Keith is in the top twenty-five.

Dave, thank you so much for the (keys) camera view. I've been wanting to transcribe this one for a while now and this is a big help. Very cool...

Great voicings man!

ART TATUM brings the Fullness.

On the Intro piece, you reminds me again of Lyle due to some chord voicings, idiosyncrasies (Motif development, high-pitched commentaries after statements...) etc. Sounds great Dave!

Thank you for your introspection. Beauty conveyed, your story told and mine in ‘Snow on 5 th Ave.’ Yet apart, one in the same. 🙏

Rousseau's World * Snow Falls on Fifth Avenue * The Mechanization of America * These Foolish Things (but who's to answer?) * How Deep Is The Ocean * Ocean Extension (oh, Dave, you show-off!!) * Where Is Love * Times Square * Here's That Rainy Day * ❣🎵🎶🎹

<Greetings fro Nicaragua!¡!> ( not Zymba...>

Loved the snow on 5th and the mechanization of America pieces. I'd be really interested in the though process behind the mechanization one in particular. Really captured the title of the piece evocatively. Great stuff Mr. Frank

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKmxiImdqJJqrcUsi=N1PNVA9VZhxL89SE Hey Dave! You inspired me to transcribe this beautiful solo! Thank you!

Love the playing so easy going . Real nice chord voicing and run at the end.

Wonderful playing .Have been following your playing for years now .Saw a picture of Sri Yogananda behind you .Have been in SRF for 52 years now. Study jazz piano every day. An infinite journey.

Thanks! This is really helpful!

Just gorgeous.. ❤🎹 beautiful reharms

SOOOOOOOOOOOOO Beautiful. What a master

Dave! Great set. You are on fire, sounding fantastic! Greetings from the big Apple.

It's tough to play the bass line so low and keep it clean. Light touch. It's hard to do.

The art of fugue a la Dave Lenny Franks.😊❤. Two brains fused and weaving wonders in the fabric 🎶🎵🎵