The Jake Feinberg Show

Preserving American Folk Music with the Dawg!

Gifted musician and producer talks about his debut solo EP and the necessary adaptability of musicians in the age of COVID. 

San Francisco, back again my friend to the days of wine and roses -Cal Tjader, Bayete, Armando Peraza, Eddie Marshall Ron Stallings,  and the rest of the Mill Valley Gang which included David "What are their names" Crosby. San Francisco was a beautiful artistic enclave before anybody knew it was great. It was an incubator of Latin Funk mixed with Psychedelic Rock and 1st generation blues play...

As I continue to wade deeper into how real music is made I have stumbled across cats who were masters of all trades and helped the music grow both sonically and substantively. By this I mean they had the chops to play across the entire musical spectrum, they had gods gifts of love to feel the music. To swing from Rock to Bach to Soul. My guest is one of the cats with huge chops and great feel. Exc...

The just way It Had to Be....isn't that the old saying when you look back and ahead in the moment. It's teddy Edwards blowing some West Coast Southern California Hard Bop with the melodic percussive vibes of Milt Jackson playing bags groove keeping time with Ray Brown and the late great Dick Berk. My guest today is from the island of Jamaica where jazz had come to the forefront because of contribu...

King of the session cats breaks down his love of all music. 

My guest today is the greatest banjo player the world has ever seen. That could be because of the advent of air travel but probably not. He was born in Boston, MA a city rich with history and prose and fiddling. This breadbasket of culture lent itself to my guest who was bubbling with an urge to play burning music- bluegrass music. From the Ash Grove Fiddlers Convention to Farms in Appalachia my g...

The dirt farmer, a cultivator of land in Arkansas. Toiling in the fields with a rhythm of his own. Unique, not like Gene Krupa or Buddy Rich or Earl Palmer but a pulsating percolating personification that set the dirt farmer apart from every other drummer. My guest today is a guitar player with a unique and distinctive sound that roils in his hometown of Woodstock, NY. Unlike every long haired kid...

I have been marinating in different regional pockets of music for quite sometime. The pockets of this country where unique music developed because of culture, heritage and a need for individuality. Of late the great state of Louisiana has been turning round inside as I have interviewed Ellis Marsalis, Allan Toussaint and last weekend Leo Nocentelli. Those cats call New Orleans home with all the be...

RAT ON Rat on Rat on. My guest is not himself these days because if he was he would be settling in to the latter stages of life, winding down and having his larger family contingent pick up where he left off. But that's not how this chapter is being written. My guest today is performing at a prolific clip criss crossing the country in an effort to be a link in the chain. It could be doing the Hick...

My guest was born near the Mason-Dixon Line but was close enough to Rock Creek Park that he sucked in all the sounds of Mid-Atlantic America. The bluegrass of Chubby Wise and Bill Monroe, the baselines of Richard Davis, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Garrison, the soul sanctification of Wilson Pickett and Sam Cooke and the Chuck Berry, Little Richard Rock beat. My guest studied and studied. By studying I...

This man gives me faith in human evolution. Rock on....

One of the 4Ls of the JFS is Lineage. The idea of a family tree, where unique sounds originated from and where the sound spectrum lives in today's electronica world. The father of Bluegrass was Bill Monroe, John Lee Hooker Champion Jack Dupree, Howlin Wolf and Muddy Waters, Michael Bloomfield, Nick Gravenites were fathers and sons somewhere in that mix. Sam Cooke and Ray Charles slow cooked soul m...

*w/ special guest Will Duncan The cycle of birth and death. Who are you born to, what kind of family is it? Is it love or hate or both. Love and Hate, Fear and Insecurity, Stone Genius one step forward 3 back 2 sideways. I'm Grateful for it all. I'm grateful to be surrounded by people today who feel the emotions that drive the cycle of life and death. My guests today have been preparing themselves...

Brilliant Taiwanese pianist talks about her passion to teach and stretch out past her boundaries. 

Burning guitarist and human being shares his musical tales. 

In a day in age when younger cats including myself feel a need to change the subject it has created a musical feel of anxiety and over reaching. The need to show off ones chops at the expense of real authentic music seems to have pervaded the universal language of communication. My guest continues to play music that don't allow for attention deficit disorder. He grooves you with Sticky Stuff that...

Master human being.....

Diaspora, the actual transfer of slaves from Africa to the middle islands was endemic of the cut throat policies that empires had and still have. What kept the slaves together spirituality was the drum and the rhythms that came from the drum...let the body dance the mambo or the bolero or Afro Cuban or bebop. My guest today is one of the most rhythmic percussive pianists in the world. His sound is...

My guest today is a rarified drummer that can vacillate effortlessly between the studio and a live setting. It's not your typical live musical setting. Often there are beatniks and lifers who come to the shows to grab the essence of the live music experience. The one were time and place seem to stand still as even those with anticipatory tendencies are hanging on every note, lyric and fate. Doing...

Badass jazz and funk drummer breaking it down....

In the late sixties and early seventies many of the cats who were playing improvisational music were trying to add on to the musical thesaurus that was John Coltrane. A spinning wheel of scales and rudiments played within different scales and modalities. Expanding consciousness and spirituality in that people got to witness these performances live. Maybe it was at a bar with 9 people but this musi...

The evolution of the blues written and performed by Jon Hendricks was a direct critique of where the blues emanated from. It was a reminder of the gospel tinged spirituals of the church and the preachers who slung a guitar over themselves to sing and pick and lament those lost days in the fields picking cotton in slavery. Cats like the Reverend Gary Davis, John Lee Hooker,Indianola's own BB King,...

Technique on the drum kit is essential but meaningless without the infusion of soul. Cats have monster chops but sometimes you look up on the bandstand and they are not listening- they are thrashing trying to eek out some kind of ego maniacal communication that does nothing to elevate the music. My guest today has serious chops and serious soul. It started back with Larry Harlow and Willie Colon a...

Songs of the Unsung. RIP Brent. Love Always, JF