The Jake Feinberg Show

My guest today is a woman of the church. A congregation that was not afraid to own the blues which is where that music hails from. Gospel Music when intermeshed with blues creates soul and today we present a serenade to a soul sister who is deeply connected to the spiritual oasis of playing with Jerry Garcia. She came aboard in 1983 during a transitional time for both the band and Jerry. Relentles...

The unincorporated land of Louisiana. Where the native Americans of of all descents were Unencumbered by cultural biases and norms. These were small communes of different peoples who were bombastic and playing regional Music of the swamps. My guest plays Cajun Fiddle in myriads of settings and his musicianship and entertaining capacities are in the same class as Professor Longhair and Bill Monroe,...

Significant west coast avant-bop drummer of the early 1960's 

Doing it to death, the relentless pouring of sweat and grit to hold it down and be an accompanist for the greatest self-expressionist of our time. My guest kept the beat and played the rhythms that helped James Brown reach international stardom. He would play the same groove for 15 minutes while Jimmy Brown carried on and drove those rhythms Stone Soul Lyrics captured from all the urban venues tha...

Still very active, still very strong. Leading the way without being the leader. Years of giving back making wine and playing their butts off. It started sometime ago when My two guests found their way to Sacramento at a time when the city was buzzing with night Life @ Dave's Soul Kitchen where my guests learned how to play funky soul grooves and against the time. They played off each other taking...

The Doctor is in this week checking up on patients who have been sonically altered. His synthesizers became beams of light, always light bouncing of the Electronic Music in the late 60s. My guest is a heavyweight musician. He had gotten to leave this planet with Charles Eariand and burn hot melodic chordal mosaics of sound in a "Sextant" with Herbie Hancock or Love Love with Julian Priester or pla...

​It Was Always About ​by John Scher ​When I started working with the Grateful Dead in the mid-70s, there was no traditional manager. Once things clicked between me and the band as a promoter, they came to this realization that they just didn’t want to deal with the outside world. They didn’t want to deal with the outside business world, for sure. They left a lot of it to me. I was never their mana...

Many of us have gifts and if we begin to access our true nature those gifts become accentuated. How did you do that? Did it matter? does it now? If you don't put yourself out there then those gifts can not be acted on and your true nature will remain unrefined. My guest has been putting himself out there his whole life. Northern Exposure in swampy jersey Bars or the Bitter End with Terry Silverlig...

Dynamic drummer and advocate talks about life on the bandstand. 

Divine yogic healer talks about overcoming adversity in her life and how that has made her stronger constitutionally and a more effective teacher and mother. 

Iconic drummer live at the Doubletree with me in Tucson, AZ 

Epic session musician and live performer talks about his musical life and philosophies. 

Sitting in Limbo with The Wizard of Oz. 

Mindblowing multi-reed player talks about inventing sound on the bandstand. 

Humanitarian, yogic practitioner and multi-instrumentalist talks about healing himself and others during this turbulent times.  

Legendary keyboardist talks about life in the musical fast lane....

My guest today is an icon of show business entertainment. He has no qualms with this considering the hard scrabble life that he ascended from. He came out of the functional dysfunction of Hell's Kitchen where you needed to be a street scholar- learning what to do and what not to do. He grew up with street gangs that were much more ruthless than West Side Story would depict along with the Puerto Ri...

My guest today is a torch bearer of melodic improvisation. A master of melodies, chromatic modal patterns of improvisation that open space for drummers like Eddie Marshall and Joe Chambers who say "Hello to the Wind." My guest came of age under the iron man sweetheart Eric Dolphy when he went by the more formal Robert. But his endearing nature, positive path of constant creation created love among...

"Carlos (Santana) and I were meant to be together because we have the same sort of searching mentality. Always searching for the right note, right tone and he is a master of melody. He's like an encyclopedia of melodies and still Carlos' musical roots are deep, it's a deep well that he draws on because he listens to so much music from around the world. He's like a sponge so he's got a real sense o...

To be an impresario takes guts. You are a fan sometimes rapid fan and need to find a way to turn a profit. In today's touring circuit it's Tom Waits warmed over covered in corporate sponsors in a sea of digital music that has been forces into peoples ears do the last two decades. My guest today was a chance taker before full interconnection. He came up when college universities had resources to fu...

I have reached out to musicians from a different era on this radio escapade. Cats that could be my dad or uncle. Not that I didn't have a great Dad and Uncle but in many ways tapping into these brothers and sisters has been self sustaining finding those in their glory years. Still productive, still active still, feeling alive. As with the musicians I am carving a similar path up that deli trail to...

I have reached out to musicians from a different era on this radio escapade. Cats that could be my dad or uncle. Not that I didn't have a great Dad and Uncle but in many ways tapping into these brothers and sisters has been self sustaining finding those in their glory years. Still productive, still active still, feeling alive. As with the musicians I am carving a similar path up that deli trail to...

The culture of jazz is clearly built around the music but the culture only exists because of enlightened cats who were reared in the presence of greatness. Artistic greatness and in a humanitarian sense as well. My guest is one of the cats I speak off. He took advantage of his early childhood connections and used his native gifts to help explain transcendent music. Music that was played By Bird an...

Dig the bass. The east bay grease that was hopin' in and out of Vietnamese Restaurants in Oakland as my guest plays a reality fender. Locking the groove like Bob Cranshaw, helping swing the band with David Garibaldi whose big band background helped drive the Tower of Power. Of coarse it's deeper than that. It always is and my guest is too modest to call attention to himself. If anything he encoura...

Last time I spoke with my guest he hipped me to Herbie Nicholas, Village Music and the album Bass Ball which I still haven't found. Since that time I Have been Woodshedding in many different regions of the country. Talking to Charlie Daniels about his bluegrass upbringings in Appalachia, or maybe Bill Keith who is a master of the banjo. It Could have been talking with Peter Rowan before a concert...