The Jake Feinberg Show

Shamanic healer and yogic practitioner talks about Vedic wisdom and indigenous healing modalities that have healed her and her clients.

Legendary studio bassist talks about his musical life. 

Esperanza Spalding , Gil Evans , Pat Metheny , Pat Martino , Jaco Pastorius The Jake Feinberg Show

The upright bass. An instrument that elicits sounds large, round and phat. It could be in some messianic run of scales that culminate in a burning straight ahead tune or out in the ethos Dancing on the Puget Sound or Cannon Beach. Places that elicit the sea salt of the earth splashing rays of black saints like Dewey Redman, Hadley Caliman and Joe Henderson. My guest today is a living Titan of the...

The guitar for me had become a residence for me. I had been initially exposed to some incredibly efficient artists in jazz. Not only on the guitar, but many different instruments. This was a dream for me to be able to participate in this community with so many different facets that I was yet to learn in the near future. Maybe if I would have known I would have turned in a completely different dire...

My guest today is one of the most highly decorated musicians in our countries history. To him music has no idiomatic label- it's just music. This is evidenced by the list of musicians he has collaborated with over the years. Greg Allman, Herbie Mann, The Staples Singers, LULU, Levon Helm, Bobby Womack, Lonnie Mack, Russell Smith, Willie Nelson and Millie Jackson. I have covered studio cats who pla...

We'd get to the studio and John would say, "we're going to do song, something like this." He'd have his guitar and he'd stand there for a second and play some of the tune. Then we'd play it and we'd just cut it. We didn't know what we was going to do. We didn't know how we was going to start it, we didn't know how we was going to end it. Our band (Johnny Cash) had no idea the song "Boy Named Sue"...

The hot banjo pickin that came before my guest. Country style picking by the likes of Bill Emerson and his Virginia Mountaineers whose fingers were on fire playing rainbow blues. This music was cut in the moment, no multiple takes just burn and prey -it was and always will be that leap into the world of improvisation that led to my guest today who is another link in that chain. A chain that consis...

The iconic jazz clubs in our countries history stretch from coast to coast. There was The Both/And and Jazz Workshop in SF. The London House in Chicago, Lennie's on the Turnpike in Boston and Smalls Paradise in Harlem. These clubs captured the essence of swing music, the lighting, the intimacy- that visceral feeling of collective unison between bandmates and their devoted patrons. Slowly though in...

We are given native gifts whether we chose to access them or not. If we access these gifts then it comes down to doing the right thing, timing and some old fashioned good luck. My guest was one of the artists that put me on this path of interviewing musicians in the business of melodic invention. He started in upstate NY where he had the perfect balance of mathematics and love attending ESM and ba...

Music Is People 5/5; expanded 7/7 by Kofi Burbridge † ​My parents were on top of culture, influenced by it, and fired up by it. In 1961 they were already headstrong about receiving any information about Africa, anything that had to do with the influence on African Americans. They wanted to open that up to us, seeing that we were so hyped on music. They wanted to open our minds to the rest of life,...

"We live in a very very weird society here as far as art is concerned. Certainly when it comes to the art form of jazz. When I came to Baltimore with Jackie back in 1965 there was a very vibrant jazz community here. They had the North End Lounge and they had The Left Bank Jazz Society that was committed to carrying on the tradition of the music and have all kinds of musicians come in and play. I p...

Lewis and Clark were pioneers, so was Christopher Columbus and Marco Polo. They walked the barren deserts and sailed the high seas looking for new unique unforeseen land and people. They were seekers who took that lonely road - not seeking fame or fortune but to calm the inferno inside them that pushes any iconoclast to the boundaries of the mortal. In music there are pioneers as well- Bill Monroe...

Nat King Cole put his life on the line playing music. He was an inspiration to many a young pianist who saw the way to communicate musically. To break down all the barriers that people put in there way. Nat King Cole and Oscar Peterson inspired cats like my guest who grew up in Chicago.....which was brimming with the baddest cats around Elliott Randall, Richard Evans, Morris Jennings, Cash McCall...

This week marked Holocaust Remembrance Day which was an historical event that saw the anguished cries of millions of Jewish people incinerated at the hands of the Nazi's. Jewish musicians have always had a soft spot in my heart especially if they can swing like my guest who developed and identified with his black brothers who lived under oppression and slavery for years similar to the gulags that...

The distinctive sound of the Bay Area came from individualistic drummers like my guest. My guest wound up in a psychedelic rock Folk outfit known as Quicksilver Messenger Service. A group of Mavericks that combined a wide range of instruments into their music which allowed it to span multi-genres. You hear all the influences in their music and it starts with the drummer. He could play hard driving...

A negative thing that happens (on the bandstand) is that you get in the way of what music “could happen.” I try to stay out of the way and allow whatever’s about to come through to come through. The other magic that happens is with other players on the bandstand. You have to have a connection with those people, and they all basically have to be looking for the same kind of revelations. That’s what...

"The sustainability of art is constant movement between modes and scales, lyrics, melodies, symmetry, odd meters and a fundamental believe in the huminality of music. My guest today has been performing in Big Brass Bands the last 6 decades. He has been creating trends and staying on the productive side of the hill even as the fallibility and short comings of man are self-evident. He was co founder...

My guest today is an unheralded swamp bucket honk a Billie toe tapping entertainer. He was born in Arkansas and devoured all there was musically speaking. He toured the southeastern United States and when he was back home operated the Rockwood Club where the likes of Jerry Lee Lewis and Conway Twitty came to play. He took that gospel infused rock n roll boogie woogie roots to Canada where he forme...

Grief counselor and yogic practitioner talks about overcoming the loss of her baby boy and how it has made her a empathetic teacher, healer, mother and wife. 

Brilliant pianist and film score composer talks about coming to America and being embraced by the jazzers

Iconic bop and session guitarist talks about the musical journey

There is no way I would be where I am today if it wasn't for a place my guest helped lead and cultivate. He cultivated land in a town called Elizaville  with but a deli, a fire station and a post office. Nothing for miles, space, Eternity, high skies and the Schain Shack. What was built on this land in Elizaville is Camp Scatico. Call it a state of mind,  I always looked at it as a place...

Modern day soul pioneer talks about making a life as a touring musician...

As the sun settles over the whispering pines of Elizaville, NY a new summer is set to begin at Camp Scatico. My guest today is one of the most fiery and inspirational characters I have ever come across who went to camp. He was making a name for himself long before I got there learning to be a leader under the tutelage of Oshatz and Johny Deutsch. This manifested in music appreciation, u13 champion...