The Jake Feinberg Show

Melodic invention- a word developed by another bass player named Putter Smith who defines this as European Swing coupled with African Rhythms. It doesn't really matter where it started because it was sprinkled with Dixieland in the south Harlem Soul in the north  Blues in St Louis up the Mississippi Delta to Chicago. This fusing of music included a young farmer from the valleys of California...

Further was originally a Quartet and then for awhile it was just the three of us. Towards the end we started moving away from low-fi records, trying to make our sound a little bit better. There was a time we didn’t even have a bass player, it was just three guitars and drums. We knew we needed a keyboard player and bass player. I saw this kid at the radio station one day, he was kind of like a pun...

Master pianist talks about his career from upstate New York to the Big Easy to Ball St. 

Yogic practitioner who is leaning into her true nature and taking a spirit mind approach to learning.  

Runaway Bay you say? Sounds like a gong with the ghost of Marcus Garvey and the chants of the sugar shakers...... The drum is a language all of its own. The rhythms on the 1/3 instead of 2 and 4 set reggae apart as a modern music be it ska, calypso, dub rock steady. My guest is from Jamaica and was part of the regional music of that island with The Bush Doctor Peter Tosh, Brother Bob Marley, Monty...

Son of a Prankster Man. Furthur

Natural Expression ​by Sunshine Kesey (daughter of Ken Kesey and Mountain Girl) ​I saw Jerry Garcia on stage from my infancy. At the time their events were considered the safest and most loving place anywhere. I grew up at Grateful Dead shows and New Riders of the Purple Sage shows, which all felt like a safe place for kids. I had full run of the place, because I was one of the oldest kids. I was...

“Skinny Dennis” In my early teens I started to fiddle around with lyrics and thought that being a musician was something I could do or wanted to do. I got into that around the time I started playing guitar. I’ve always leaned on being a singer/song writer than being able to shred. I’m fascinated with the old world tradition (Europe) because those songs were traded by traveling musicians. They didn...

Decorated Scaticonian talks about leadership, love, life & lineage. 

Bass player and poet talks about the nuances of organic music. 

Somatic healer talks about her inner work in the ongoing journey towards enlightenment. 

Stalwart banjo, guitar and string bass player talks about being raised by older black musicians on the bandstand and living a musical life in The Big Easy.

It’s Just Metal, Joey ​by Joe Russo ​What a badass move by Phil! He took a chance on a guy (me) who had never really listened to the Grateful Dead, except begrudgingly at parties or quitting my high-school band ’cause they wanted to play “Fire on the Mountain.” It just wasn’t my thing. ​Our paths crossed in 2006, when Marco Benevento and I were play-ing with Mike Gordon and Trey Anastasio and we d...

With the passing of Dave Brubeck this week it brought again to the forefront the idea of bold conceivers. Those who can compose and arrange and orchestrate. Those who can read music and those who have that element of street music the swagger, the smoothness, the focus. The ability to listen to the hip cake bass lines of Gary King.  the opportunity to conduct and arrange big bands for movie so...

On Detroit: "My mother sent me to school there to go to Cass. Tech. There were no segregated schools in Detroit, MI. There were no segregated colleges in Detroit, Mi. We were second to Juilliard and we were a high school! Juilliard recently celebrated its 100 birthday but they have only had jazz for seven years now. Cass Tech had a symphony orchestra and three jazz bands in the school. They taught...

There were guys who thinking of the bass as a first voice. You had cats like Eberhardt Weber on upright, Stanley (Clarke), Jaco (Pastorious), they were definitely trailblazers at that time on the electric bass. Then you had cats like Monk Montgomery whose credited with being the first to play the electric bassist. When fender gave the bass to Lionel Hampton who gave it on to Monk. We're talking 19...

Explosive guitar player from Grand Funk Railroad talks about his extraordinary musical career.

Filmmaker talks about his Grateful endeavors and all the gratitude that comes with it.

Conduit to divine spiritual music discusses her musical life  and learning her singing patterns though rhythm and dance. 

The Jewish musician, often an afterthought in melodic invention. Italians, Blacks, Latino's sure but prolific Judaic studio cats - get outta here. Still when you immerse yourself within the musical tribe you find that the brothers come in all shapes and sizes, creeds and colors. If you can keep time, play behind the beat or in front of it, hold it down While Harold Vick is blowing cosmic waves, lo...

Just happy being myself so says the man who is held together by music. Music played with adherence to the world around us and the unique features of each enclave, village and Appalachian trailed that has been carved out by man. Sometimes I will travel back to Taiwan where my wife is from and I see the indigenous people, the Native Soil and the organic nature of life the way my guest creates music....

When the spirits call they do so with the understanding that I understand that I am merely part of the wave of history and that if I am to do a decent job covering ethnomusicology in the states then it my job to push that boulder up the hill a little bit at a time until the next cat comes around to push it a little bit more. I get to realizing that the real authenticity of my show is interviewing...

On my program the Bay Area has been a major focus of my journey to a land before my time. The heliport, Denny Zeitlin, Vovo, Sly Stone, Jacks on Sutter, Jimbo's Bop City, Wally Heider Studios and so much more. Yet, another part of the Golden Bay is San Jose which had it own regional music scene separate from San Francisco. East Side San Jose, the gospel and blues coming out of the church and night...

 Godfather of the East Bay and San Jose music collective. RIP to an iconic creator. 

The latter portion of the sixties was a gymnasium of live venues which permeated sounds of acoustic instruments like Fritz Richmond's washtub base or Paul Harris' ivory for the evening. An even dozen sophisticated white musicians trying to play authentic roots music with their mentors. Through these live venues you saw the visceral qualities of Tim Hardin, Sivuca, Odetta and my guest all in one we...