Mike Clark is best known for his work with Herbie Hancock on the Headhunters. He and Paul Jackson roomed together in Oakland and turned into one of the most formidable rhythm sections in the world. Still, Mike is from the Art Blakey school of jazz and he loves to swing. So much so that continues to hold it down with the likes of Mike Wolff, Scott Hamilton and plays at clubs in Detroit like "The Magic Bag." Still Mike's formative years were in the Bay Area and during the early seventies so we are...
Aug 31, 2020•54 min
New Jersey native Barry Miles starting playing drums at age 3. He quickly transitioned over to the piano and was playing with Woody Herman in the late 60s. To put it in perspective his dad served as his agent when he was 13. By the early seventies he had already cut two massive albums with Pat Martino, John Abercrombie and his brother Terry Silverlight (who was 14 at that time). He also played a sick big band session with Eric Kloss and Gene Perla on Jersey Public Television! He is also consider...
Aug 30, 2020•48 min
I left Tucson I did some great interviews with some Sennheiser 441s and an IPhone. One of these was with Ernie Watts who is one of the most legendary saxophonist's of our lifetime. He played with Oliver Nelson, Cannonball Adderley, Joe Henderson, Buddy Rich, Frank Zappa and Steely Dan. His move to Los Angeles coincided with Motown's move from Detroit to Southern California so he played a ton of Rn B sessions (The Mack) and on Hollywood soundtracks. This interview is great because Ernie, in very ...
Aug 30, 2020•1 hr 2 min
Daughter of Neal Cassady talks candidly about her dad, what is what like to live with him and how he always wanted to please mom. A true Merry Prankster
Aug 30, 2020•1 hr 25 min
I sat down with Ndugu prior to my departure to LA. It was one of those conversations where I felt like as long as I set screens, boxed out and was in the right place Ndugu would get me the ball. His intellect is undeniable and his passion for creation and getting acknowledged for creativity is paramount. We talked about leadership, mentoring, collaboration, teamwork and "music as a meal." The back half of the interview really picks up - probably because I got my sea-legs. Music is Life, Enjoy it...
Aug 30, 2020•1 hr 6 min
I was joined by the legendary drummer Dick Berk. We had a ball. He was Billie Holiday's last drummer and his stories about how she took care of him when he was a seventeen hear old on the road are really stunning. Dick was also the drummer on the song "Manuel Deeghit" which we cranked really loud. Long live Cal Tjader......and 1/2 a mile from Tucson by the Morning Light
Aug 30, 2020•54 min
Steel City, Booker Ervin, Tommy Turrentine, Cal Tjader, Manuel Deeghit,
Aug 30, 2020•54 min
"Don't Categorize" By Duke Ellington by Nat Hentoff My oldest friend in music, Charles Mingus, never used the word jazz. He said, I play "Mingus music." Duke Ellington who I got to know when I was quite young and was my mentor never used the word "jazz." He didn't like terminology. He gave me a lesson when I was very young. He said, "don't categorize the music. Dont use terms like "cutting edge jazz and "old time jazz". You go to each musician and you open yourself to what that particular player...
Aug 30, 2020•47 min
A continuation of our discussion about rhythm and how it morphs over time.
Aug 30, 2020•1 hr
Iconic drummer talks about getting his Swahili name from Mtume.
Aug 30, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Iconic youngest Heath brother talks about his older brothers Jimmy and Percy and growing up playing with his elders like Lester Young and Shirley Scott
Aug 30, 2020•1 hr 11 min
This is an historic landmark in the first quarter of Jake Feinberg's radio career. 79 year old Mickey Roker appeared on my show in a pre-recorded interview that will air 7/2/11. He is one of the greatest jazz drummers of all time. He played with Duke Pearson on all those classic Blue Note Sessions, he was Dizzy's personal drummer throughout the seventies as well as the Pablo sessions. He funked out with Reuben Wilson and Mike Longo and up until it closed was the house drummer at "Ortlieb's" in t...
Aug 30, 2020•51 min
Microtonal Blues Band , Spirit of 1976 , Frank Sinatra , 700 percussive instruments , The Jake Feinberg Show
Aug 30, 2020•55 min
Pony Poindexter , Miles Davis , Jon Hendricks and the Blues , Stripping of the Arts The Jake Feinberg Show
Aug 30, 2020•55 min
Master saxophonist talks about his musical roots in Dallas and becoming fully ensconced in the fertile Bay Area jazz scene.
Aug 30, 2020•54 min
Explosive Hammond B-3 organist talks about playing the officers clubs in England with John McLaughlin.
Aug 30, 2020•1 hr 5 min
How far is it to the end of the Universe? Maybe you'll get their by the Marakesh Express or swung into Oblivion. The Universe is mind expanding and so is pure jazz which mixes all musics in an improvisational fire storm that incorporates European Classical and The only art form this country has ever had- African Swing Music. My guest today is one of the heaviest keyboardists of all time. He took all the influences of soul music, rhythm and blues, James Brown modal chromatic chordal configuration...
Aug 30, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Spiritual jazz guitarist talks about his guru Sri Chimnoy and learning to make a cheap Indian meal for the disciples and going on tour with Mahavishnu Orchestra
Aug 30, 2020•50 min
Don’t Let The Dragon Eat Your Mother.....
Aug 30, 2020•1 hr 14 min
Coming to America: "I came here at the invitation of Tony Williams. Who even today, nobody plays like Tony. The closest drummer to Tony today is Cindy Blackman. I'm over there in Europe. Lets not equate the European Jazz scene with the American Jazz Scene. Today there's a lot more balance between the two continents but in the sixties it was America. You have no idea, since I was fifteen all I dreamt about was going to New York, New York NEW YORK! Not only New York but Harlem! That was the heart ...
Aug 30, 2020•45 min
People talk about the British Invasion as "The Beatles..." That the Beatles encouraged original song writing and individuality. They also are given credit for introducing Indian Music and polyrhythms to our humble land. But what about those who don't sing on McLemore Ave or croon like James Taylor but rather play melodic invention. The fusing of all genres of music before there was any idiomatic labeling. These types of artists are mercurial - sometimes misunderstood like Miles Davis who hired m...
Aug 30, 2020•33 min
My guest today is a lover, leader and life giver of music. The decisions that he makes correlate to art and relationships because you must have intimate relationships with cats to make real music. Cats like Dino Danelli who came up playing swing music with the likes of Lionel Hampton. My guest was part of The Rascals. A rock quarter that produced jukebox hits that the ladies could bob their heads too. The group was deeper then their pop hits. The messages within their music spoke of justice for ...
Aug 30, 2020•36 min
efore interconnection and the mass marketing of music you had regional music. Music that was created in the real time with definitive characteristics of certain parts of the country and its rhythms. Some had urban feels like The Chicago Shuffle and the beat of Dixieland or the fact that a tuba played the baseline. My guest today is responsible for creating a piece of regional American Music. One of the slow cooked south with a B-3 jamming in a crowded bar with Levon Helm and Mac Rebennack and Ho...
Aug 30, 2020•44 min
My guest today is from New Orleans, LA. A territory the United States acquired from the French in the Louisiana Purchase because the French had lost control of the African Slaves who came to Congo Square to communicate through the drum. The drum could talk in a universal language of spirit mind and body. And in that order. This is the Bayou culture. A mighty coo-de-fi-yo hoodoo approach to singing and songwriting built from tales of the Walcott Medicine Show mixed with Snake Poison and transform...
Aug 29, 2020•1 hr 14 min
In the context of the live music experience it is imperative that your focus remains on listening and improvising off your bandmates. It's beyond the music, it's a focus that should be able to take those with small musical pallets and take them on a ride with their own sailin shoes through a journey of music of the Americas. By that I mean Congo Square, Dixieland, Bayou Funk, Jam Based, roadhouse blues and melodic invention. Keeping the pocket with slanting rhythms and slide work around the guit...
Aug 29, 2020•57 min
I've interviewed a number if guitarists on my program. Cats like Kenny Burrell who were making up the rules with Donald Byrd and Elvin Jones in Detroit. Locked in a pocket of communal musical connection the same way my guest can hit flurries of notes that have you flying and showing you the way. Regional Music in the Americas was rampant in Appalchia, Chicago Blues, Gulf Coast, and the North Bay SoCa Latin funk escapade. It was also rampant in New Orleans where my guest hails from. He came of ag...
Aug 29, 2020•1 hr
With my back against the wall I pulled out a 1984 dicta phone and a 2011 iphone and recorded a legendary interview with George Duke. The recording came out extremely well and please note the sequence in part II where I can clearly be heard heading over to the record player to drop the needle on "Black Messiah." We didn't always talk the "King's English" but the camaraderie was instant and shown through. This is one for the books. George, I can't thank you enough. Black Messiah, Cannonball, Thing...
Aug 29, 2020•1 hr 3 min
Why was the book written was to set the record straight? This is important because at one time post Jim Morrison there was a a harmony between Manzarek, Kreiger and my guest....like a spear they blazed through and became a band of melodic invention with studio cats like Ray Neopolitan Charles Lloyd, Bobbye Porter Hall and all the other ships with sails. Who do you think scouted this talent? Who do think was inside the Hollywood studios banging on vibes with Emil Richards or brought Harvey Brooks...
Aug 29, 2020•54 min
Swing Your Ass Off , Bill Goodwin , Buddy Rich , RIOT , Thelonious Monk , Charlie Parker , Dizzy Gilespie The Jake Feinberg Show...
Aug 29, 2020•59 min
Stud drummer talks about defying the hands of time and still being able to pass along the timeless rhythmic knowledge he has gathered along the way. Charlie Parker , Max Roach , Cymbals , I'm A Player , CFSD , Subbing , Ted Dunbar , Richard Davis...
Aug 29, 2020•31 min
