The Jake Feinberg Show

Soulful timeless piano player who will never be forgotten....

“Ego Dissolution” Why a psychedelic is so potentially beneficial is that they have the effect of shaking up rigid thought patterns and behavior which gets fixated. The person makes the same mistake for the rest of their lives. What happens in a psychedelic state, particularly if they have a good psychotherapist to guide them, is that their wish to overcome their problem (depression/addiction) beco...

The drum chair and he who sits in it. A barrelhouse of polkas, stripper gigs, game shows, jingles and soundtracks. It's about feel. The terms that have come about are nothing more then playing behind in front or on the beat. When my guest hit the studio scene he was ingratiated by Earl Palmer who was feeling the groove to many grooves in fact that he recommended my guest to all the Producers, like...

Muscle Shoals , Levon Helm , Jeff Davis , Amazing Ryhthm Aces , Nashville , Lucretia , The Jake Feinberg Show

You ever hear the expression, "you know this is really artistically appealing but not commercially viable." If you have then you were probably pursuing an artistic endeavor that reeked of the truth, dripped with humanity and exposed the status quo. My guest today heard this many times in his life as an actor, film maker, reporter, writer, astronomer, linguist and cable car grip man. He wanted to c...

Occasionally on the Journey I wonder why I pay homage to those players who I never met, or saw play. To know authenticity when you never experienced it. I have interviewed Ira Gitler, Herb Wong and Nat Hentoff on this journey. Guys who produced records, wrote linear notes and filled in the human with the being. I interviewed Fred Taylor who among other things ran the Jazz Workshop and Paul's Mall...

I realized at a certain point that this (melodic invention) was what I was suppose to do with my life. It was to develop this music, this melodic improvisation and carry it through and expand it and get better at it. At the time all you wanted to do was get to a point where you had enough chops that you could play what you heard. Then it becomes, “I need to hear more, I need to expand my hearing.”...

Along the way on my journey to cover the greatest generation of musicians I have discovered that in many ways the drummer can set the tone for an entire session. If the drummer has a preferred style and gets locked into that style then they cannot fit into different settings. They get locked in a mold and their growth is stunted. If however the drummer has the chops and channels his ego to fit int...

Allan Toussaint , Taj Mahal , Kenny Gradney , Lowell George , Chico Hamilton , Jimi Hendrix , Mothers of Invention , Dennis McNally , The Jake Feinberg Show

Timing can be everything in life. When you're born and when you graduate college. What era did you live through and are you satisfied. When Art was considered a sustainable form of business? My guest today took advantage of his timing and luck and fused that with an adventuresome often stream of consciousness taste in music. He understands his own Jewish roots and has devoted much of the last 15 y...

Iconic producer of music and social justice for all people

Piano wizard and magician talks about collaborating with his peers and expanding musical vocabulary on the bandstand. 

Titanic tenor player talks about his musical life; the ups downs and everything in between....

My guest today is an example of someone who was born in the right place at the right time. He was raised in San Francisco and during his formative years when arguably the greatest music cultivation was occurring. The core group of Brubeck, Desmond and Tjader and Guaraldi spawned a new era in melodic jazz, never removing the street element but conjoining swing elements with Latin rhythms, bossa rhy...

The Jake Feinberg show started as a look deep inside the spiritualism of man and music from a certain period in our musical history. It was a time before labels and idioms dared to matter and linear notes were chewed up and thrown out with the bath water….if you actually had any running water. As my show has evolved it has settled nicely into interviews with those who sought to creatively express...

Trinidad , African Messengers , Ron Carter , Eastman School of Music , Gap Magione , Cedar Walton , Jacob's Ladder , Woody Shaw , Art Pepper , The Blackbyrds , Roberta Flack , Donny Hathaway The Jake Feinberg Show

i just loved hearing Gildo sharing his stories. have been a fan of his for many decades. must add that the chicken and waffles place in NYC was Wells (Roscoe’s is in L.A.). that was actually where i first saw Sonny Rollins. funny story about Prez calling out his own names for the tunes. what challenging times Gildo experienced. loved hearing Gildo talk about Ozzie Cadena, whose wife Gloria still c...

Spirituality in Music comes from the intimacy between musicians. Letting go of control and allowing collaboration between humans. Taking chances and playing what you feel is also an inherent component to spiritual music. Then we turn to the apparatus- the instrument itself. When you think of the violin it conjures up images of a classical setting  very formal with improvisation limited to the...

I teach my students that the drum is a means to an end, not an end in itself. They seem to have gotten it reversed. A lot of drummers use music to play the drums to show off how well they can play, how fast they can play. I say, "you use the drums to play music, it's a musical instrument." Ringo Starr said, he never really practiced the drums because he always played in a band. He just knew that h...

Vassar Clements never played anything the same way twice. He never knew what he was going to play, it just came out. Bill Monroe didn't like that improv they Vassar did. One time they're all standing behind the stage at "The Opry." Vassar's back there talking and he left the room. Bill told everybody else in the room, "you know that man right there has ruined more fiddlers here in Nashville than I...

Great interview with Raul Matute of Cold Blood. His classical training and interest in big bands are evident in his playing and arranging. I respect him for choosing a “regular life” in Socal vs. a life of touring. He clearly never left music tho! - Johnny Mac

"If my brother's death had been more sudden it would have been much harder, but we knew it was coming. I remember I was playing a concert in Tennessee and heard from my sister that he was really not doing well and it sounded like the end was eminent so I thought about him through the whole concert and the whole way home, by the time I got home he had passed already.” “It didn't make it easier beca...

Music is a language that musicians speak. When you start getting into the original music of the United States the richness that comes out in the music is like nothing else in the world. When "Sissy Strut" was released all the musicians in Berklee were mesmerized because it was a feel of music we could understand but not relate to. Different people began to tell us it had to do with the whole New O...

Be a brother. One of the original cats on the Bay Area folk scene with Garcia, Nelson & Robert Hunter

Godfather of Marin County Music