The Jake Feinberg Show

Philadelphia , Jackie McLean , Carl Burnett , Pat Martino , Chestnut Street , Mosaic Records , Todd Barkan , Tributaries The Jake Feinberg Show

Scarf in the Wind , Arp Modulator , Mel Graves , John Hammond , George Marsh , SYGZY , Expanding Minds Jake Feinberg Show

Sons of Champlin , Geoff Palmer , Commerce , Mike Finnegan , Oscar Peterson , Bill Vitt , Yoshi's , The Jake Feinberg Show

Urban centers in this country used to swell with regional music. Go from Indianapolis>Chicago and Detroit you would get 3 different sounds. Chicago was a lightning rod for amped up young musicians to come and cut their teeth. For those lucky enough to have grown up there it meant marinating in northern soul and elegant jass. The swirling organs no bass pedal, the psychedelics and the melodic vo...

Anyone who has followed my show understands the spiritual and multi dimensional aspects of the JFS. All music's are covered, coming directly from the musician's themselves. Black dirt lives again today on my program because of Brent Mydland. He was the multi dimensional keyboardist who expanded The Grateful Dead's sound. He quickly dropped the bar lines and was chasing Phil Lesh down one rabbit ho...

I didn't join Bill Graham until 1968 in New York. Prior getting into the scene my exposure to music was "Cousin Brucie" and AM radio. The first contemporary rock show I worked at the time was at The Anderson Yiddish Theatre. One of the acts on the bill was Moby Grape. I turned to someone and said, "what the fuck is a Moby Grape?" I was friends with a guy in the West Village named Tony Lecht. His c...

I was in New Orleans working on a record with Allen Toussaint and Randall Bramlett. The guy I shared a room with at The Howard Johnson had pneumonia and when I came back to New York I felt like I just wanted to be in bed. I had never felt like this before. They wanted to put me in a hospital but I had a gig that night with Steve (Gadd) and Richard Tee, Cornell (Dupree) and Eric (Gale), Gordon Edwa...

The San Francisco sound is more about a state of mind. One of independence, curiosity and experimentation. Psychedelics played a role but make no mistake it was a pleathearu of mavericks who made that SF Sound. Guys who were looking to stir things up with late night jam sessions @ the Matrix. Loose open ended affairs with cats who played @ the Heliport and West Marin. A 12 minute space funk jam wi...

When this host looks at the mass of interviews that he has done and continues to do he realizes that the full impact of the stories, camaraderie, and spirituality may resonate years after I have left this life. To be discovered or rediscovered is a mystifying and gratifying at the same time. My guest today has had a career full of starts, stops, punching bags, blue notes and love bugs. He grew up...

His career emanated across the border from Detroit in Toronto where he became engulfed in the myriad of live music and the traveling acts that came through. His unique sound came in part from the Delta blues players who picked their way into Chicago and wound up with legions of younger white wannabes who heard, felt and plugged into the authenticity of Willie Dixon, Howlin Wolf and Muddy Waters. A...

Without Catalyst there would be no JFS. Thanks PB, JF Pat Britt , Henry Franklin , Michael Howell , Norman Williams , Putter Smith , Vince Lateano , Billy Martin , You Run Like My Grandmother , Catalyst , Little Doubletoe , The Jake Feinberg Show

Meters bassist breaking down his life in music on and off the bandstand.

When I was 22 years old I started practicing Daoism. I became very close with a teacher in New Jersey. I received a lot of amazing openings. It was a time when I actually stopped playing music because I was so into my practice. Music was something I did for myself. Performing and trying to please people seemed like something that was messing my head up, I gave that up. I obviously went back to it....

The best way is to lead by example. It's nothing that has to be loud. People are always looking, even when you don't know they're looking. You don't have to be a band leader to live like someone who wants to make a difference.” “The best days of my life are the days that I wake up and I don't know, and then I'm open. You can't always give someone the answer, if they're not asking the question. You...

When all my dime dancing is through I will drum for you. The person who might not play music but will dig what I'm doing. You have to feel the music, or your passion, self medicate, learn new things, shed old skin and live to see the beauty of your palette. My guest today is an all time great both in the studio and playing live. He learned this from cats like his peers Gap Mangione and some Sing A...

Iconic record producer talks about life in a musical world

Master producer talks about working at Verve Records as an A&R man

Versatile trombonist talks about life on the bandstand

Everybody dreams, some dreams are narcissistic and petty, some have dreams so vivid that they almost seem real. Others dream and put those dreams into reality. When you take the natural attributes that have been gifted to you, dedicate yourself to your craft and dream for the stars nothing can  stop you. This mantra is not easy to establish. Self doubt creeps in, barriers artificial or not ar...

Fearless and divine yogic practitioner talks about healing and loving herself and being able to inspire others to transcend their thinking mind and access the spirit mind through meditation and kundalini yoga. 

Legendary rock manager talks about life in the fast lane....

Legendary manager of the Rolling Stones and Grateful Dead talks truth to power! 

Multi-dimensional actor and railroad avatar talks about collaborating with theatre troupes in Eugene, OR and his roles in Shenandoah and Animal House. A fountain of youth and humor within the milieu of pranksterism.  

Jake…I really enjoyed the interview. Glad to see you speaking to a lot of great musicians and documenting important bands. Bill Cutler

There was a time in this country when a younger generation chose to buck the realities of linear life and carve their own paths. Legacy paths if you will. This generation had been inundated with Frank Sinatra and Doris Day, and were bored to death. What was resonating inside them was the sounds they were hearing and emulating from the smokey blues players who sung about real life and played acoust...