The Jake Feinberg Show

Do you know what SRP stands for, it's an acronym for a very sterile system of learning that leads to followers, copy cating, no individuality.....in music SRP stands for Standard Recording Procedure. The way of confining musicians to make music they don't want to create. The ties that bind, the money the 3 record companies remaining in this land.....a squeamish representation of dosing Billy Eckst...

Free your mind and your ass will follow so says the parliamentary head of funk while my guest is creating funk for your ass.... That southern fried home cookin....that homemade bread and biscuits and gravy and cobbler with a side of Harvey Mason or Jimmy Madison or Clyde Stubblefield going across 110th street and catching a big payback of marching bands and the gulf coast sound coming from the Cri...

Iconic synth pioneer in an ongoing discussion about music and life....

I knew how to play a shuffle because I listened to music and played what guys played in the shuffle. When I was playing in "Riverboat Soul Band" we had a couple of songs that were shuffles. It was a ten piece band so when I played the shuffle it felt fine. Charlie (Neville) pulled me aside and said, "you know your shuffle sounds great, but it would feel really good if you played it a little differ...

Sometimes you hear people speaking a different language like Spanish. You don't really understand the language but you know what they're saying. Other times you hear people speaking in Chinese and you don't have any grasp of what it is. When I listen to Monk play improvisation with a trio or quartet that's a whole different story. I really understand that this guy is thoughtful and he's not racing...

"Ultimately in the big picture the best music happens live, I believe. In front of an audience where everyone is interacting and there's interplay. Everybody's playing at the same time the audience is playing @ the same time. You may have preconceived notions before you hit the bandstand of what your going to do and how your going to do it- your going to get your favorite lick in here but magic ha...

Where to begin with my guest today. Maybe in the Cosmos dwelling in a lab suit concocting a keyboard that allows Dave Brubeck and Darius Milhaud to reincarnate themselves in a bastion of Hammond Pedals that's Pigpen brought over from Novato. My guest has written many chapters on his ride through life. He was at the forefront of what was then considered "New Music." He was one of the avant garde co...

The Degradation of Love... "To soon after birth, we are not allowed to come into the world and then be called to love. We come into the world as some egoic manifestation self serving extension of our ancestry. This is the first hurdle. How do we get over that? Now we're a Bobby. Now we're a Mary. It's just that, no more no less. Already subordinate to anyone larger then we are. So we are born into...

The Gallop, the rhythm, the beat the pulse. A driving pulsating rhythm that makes the body move and the mind expand. Music in Africa has always been used to alleviate the pain and suffering of the common folk. Held under the thumb of military governments, foreign oppressors and self inflicted wounds. This music the Afro-Beat comes from the drum. An apparatus that has been used over centuries to co...

"I kept saying daddy, daddy I want some drums, so eventually he bought me some drums. I was a little girl maybe 4 or 5 years old. It was something innate that he wanted to cultivate. When there's eight kids in the house and 10 people total you don't want to hear any drums or banging. It was an innate energy that we had. We were rhythm. I was just doing a session and I was trying to get the choir t...

Back when I was a junior in college I went to see my guest with John Medeski @ the Sommerville Theatre in the Cambridge area of Mass. I say in the upper reaches of the venue a small vaudeville style place perfect for intimacy through improvisation. My brain was addled with some kind of mushroom tea so as my guest thrashed, chanted, communicated and swung the band he was giving me a preview of a tr...

Oh the whispering pines.....the Appalachian trail carving out a pathway towards the Mississippi Delta. The old hickory BBQ and the bourbon and the blending of gospel, blues, Bayou boogie and Jayhawkin' through the cornfields. My guest hails from the great state of Kansas. He has done and seen it all in music. Played at the Grand Ole Opry, local watering holes, Medicine Shows, Mafia laden clubs and...

Total Wizard

First generation Italian immigrant talks about building his American Dream and how his family has inspired him to keep growing.

"We Camet to the Conclusion" By David Lindley In those days (Mid/Late 1960's) there was free form radio, Tom Donahue. You would hear George Jones, Ravi Shankar, and Jean Luc Ponty, and then some more George Jones. It was that way on purpose, which was a statement, a really eloquent statement which is, ‘Music is pretty much the same, for the same reasons.’ It showed everybody that all these people...

Behind the washtub basses and the fret less kind behind the Tuba's and any other instrument is the individual who engages with that apparatus. The sound that emanates  from this instrument can depend upon the proficiency of the player, there use of scales and notes. Mathematics are part of it....but ultimately to be in a band you need to have a gig. And to have a gig you need to have soul. A...

Did you ever feel lonesome? That high lonesome feeling of Appalachia. Where lush green hills and streams created the perfect environment for Bluegrass Music. How then do you account for musicians who didn't grow up in this region but were still able to be authentic and true to American roots music. Obviously it starts in the home. And my guests home was full of instruments and musicians. He unders...

Art Blakey , Woody Shaw , NTU Troop , Contrabass , MBOOM , Joe Chambers , Mannes School , Howard King , Richard Davis The Jake Feinberg Show

This is a great interview of a fabulous musician who is not recognized .. unsung hero. Love him so much. On this great talking, Mundell could said that he can play with Frank Wess who is 91 years old too and still plays his ass off !!! "BEETHOVEN" (REISSER JEAN-MICHEL)

I had just come to New York and I was working with Kenny Dorham in the fall of 1959. I heard John (Coltrane) wanted to form his own quartet and leave Miles. Out of the blue I got his number and called him. I said, "I know you don't know who I am. I'm currently working with Kenny Durham but I would love it if we could get together and maybe play a little and talk about the music." He didn't say yay...

"Infinite Void" The MWANDISHI Band was evolved out of things that came from the past like from the Miles Davis (Bitches Brew) type of thing and the avant garde music of John Coltrane. This particular band was so unique in that it incorporated all those aspects of things from the past and brought it right to the forefront. It encompassed what was going on, from the racial turmoil, the revolutions t...

It was such a joy, listening to KSAN and driving to Wally Hieder’s studio and going back to Oakland listening to Dusty maybe 69-early 70’s..return Vietnam end of 68 so new life exploration. Best song Lightsout Mahdi. Thanks Don Alberto

The urban legend of Detroit is only for those generations who were not alive during the time when that city epitomized Asphalt Canyon Blues. What we see today with the Motor City is a shell of what it was when my guest today was growing up there. A thriving car industry driven by a migration of blacks from the south after mechanized equipment replaced plantation workers. This combination of family...

In the 21st century the so called digital age the role of a producer and a musician has devolved into a potpourri of inanimate objects, the # of records you sell, how to make a hit, the drum machine, and a shrinking more rigid music industry. It's a far cry from when my guest first happened on the scene. From this hosts perspective idioms were less important then individuality. Enclaves of regiona...

he state of New Jersey is situated perfectly between two musical Meccas. The soul brotherhood of Philadelphia and the Big Apple. Musicians who were lucky enough to grow up in this state were privy to the sounds of Dionne Warwick, Sigma Sound Studios and the vibrant African Jazz foothold that was beginning to take root in New York. My guest today took in this music and immediately began to cultivat...