Lesson 3.1 with Leland Sklar
Legendary studio bassist talks about his musical life.
Sep 24, 2020•1 hr
The Jake Feinberg Show
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On The Jake Feinberg Show (radio) and in Facebook Lives, Jake Feinberg has now conducted over 2,000 interviews with “The Cats”—popular musicians across the spectrum from rock to jazz, R&B to folk, pop to country, bluegrass to fusion. Jake’s unique interviewing style puts musicians at their ease and inspires them to reflect candidly on topics familiar or unexpected.
The Cats tell little stories, muse about life, uncover aspects of the music business, dig deep into overcoming adversity, revel in camaraderie, and open their souls. You will never see musicians in the same light again....
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The David Friesen Interview
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Sep 24, 2020•35 min
The Pat Martino Interview
The guitar for me had become a residence for me. I had been initially exposed to some incredibly efficient artists in jazz. Not only on the guitar, but many different instruments. This was a dream for me to be able to participate in this community with so many different facets that I was yet to learn in the near future. Maybe if I would have known I would have turned in a completely different direction. I went to Harlem with definitive expectations and when I say definitive I say that through th...
Sep 24, 2020•1 hr 36 min
The David Hood Interview
My guest today is one of the most highly decorated musicians in our countries history. To him music has no idiomatic label- it's just music. This is evidenced by the list of musicians he has collaborated with over the years. Greg Allman, Herbie Mann, The Staples Singers, LULU, Levon Helm, Bobby Womack, Lonnie Mack, Russell Smith, Willie Nelson and Millie Jackson. I have covered studio cats who played MoTown and The Wrecking Crew in Southern California. Today I have an opportunity to continue my ...
Sep 24, 2020•1 hr 12 min
The WS Holland Interview
We'd get to the studio and John would say, "we're going to do song, something like this." He'd have his guitar and he'd stand there for a second and play some of the tune. Then we'd play it and we'd just cut it. We didn't know what we was going to do. We didn't know how we was going to start it, we didn't know how we was going to end it. Our band (Johnny Cash) had no idea the song "Boy Named Sue" existed. We found out later that Shel Silverstein sent John this poem. If you listen to the record a...
Sep 24, 2020•1 hr 1 min
The Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn Interview
The hot banjo pickin that came before my guest. Country style picking by the likes of Bill Emerson and his Virginia Mountaineers whose fingers were on fire playing rainbow blues. This music was cut in the moment, no multiple takes just burn and prey -it was and always will be that leap into the world of improvisation that led to my guest today who is another link in that chain. A chain that consists Merle Watson who along with Doc toured this country with reckless abandon playing beer taverns an...
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The Howard Rumsey Interview
The iconic jazz clubs in our countries history stretch from coast to coast. There was The Both/And and Jazz Workshop in SF. The London House in Chicago, Lennie's on the Turnpike in Boston and Smalls Paradise in Harlem. These clubs captured the essence of swing music, the lighting, the intimacy- that visceral feeling of collective unison between bandmates and their devoted patrons. Slowly though in the age of rock palaces and the switch from acoustic to electric instruments these clubs faded away...
Sep 24, 2020•24 min
The Frank Strazzeri Interview
We are given native gifts whether we chose to access them or not. If we access these gifts then it comes down to doing the right thing, timing and some old fashioned good luck. My guest was one of the artists that put me on this path of interviewing musicians in the business of melodic invention. He started in upstate NY where he had the perfect balance of mathematics and love attending ESM and backing up Billy Holiday and Roy Eldridge. Stints in New Orleans was followed by a move to the left co...
Sep 24, 2020•1 hr 3 min
The Kofi Burbridge Interview
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The Larry Willis Interview
"We live in a very very weird society here as far as art is concerned. Certainly when it comes to the art form of jazz.When I came to Baltimore with Jackie back in 1965 there was a very vibrant jazz community here. They had the North End Lounge and they had The Left Bank Jazz Society that was committed to carrying on the tradition of the music and have all kinds of musicians come in and play. I played there with Nat Adderley and James Moody and these circumstances are no longer in existence. As ...
Sep 23, 2020•52 min
The Ramblin' Jack Elliott Interview
Lewis and Clark were pioneers, so was Christopher Columbus and Marco Polo. They walked the barren deserts and sailed the high seas looking for new unique unforeseen land and people. They were seekers who took that lonely road - not seeking fame or fortune but to calm the inferno inside them that pushes any iconoclast to the boundaries of the mortal. In music there are pioneers as well- Bill Monroe and John Lee Hooker, Allah Raka and Dizzy Gillespie, Reverend Gary Davis Jimi Hendrix and my guest....
Sep 23, 2020•50 min
The Ramsey Lewis Interview
Nat King Cole put his life on the line playing music. He was an inspiration to many a young pianist who saw the way to communicate musically. To break down all the barriers that people put in there way. Nat King Cole and Oscar Peterson inspired cats like my guest who grew up in Chicago.....which was brimming with the baddest cats around Elliott Randall, Richard Evans, Morris Jennings, Cash McCall , Charles Stepney and an unlimited amount of Young/Holt . These cats contributed to my guests albums...
Sep 23, 2020•48 min
The Barry Goldberg Interview
This week marked Holocaust Remembrance Day which was an historical event that saw the anguished cries of millions of Jewish people incinerated at the hands of the Nazi's. Jewish musicians have always had a soft spot in my heart especially if they can swing like my guest who developed and identified with his black brothers who lived under oppression and slavery for years similar to the gulags that were strewn across Eastern Europe. My guest played organ and piano and within the swirling confines ...
Sep 22, 2020•49 min
The Greg Elmore Interview
The distinctive sound of the Bay Area came from individualistic drummers like my guest. My guest wound up in a psychedelic rock Folk outfit known as Quicksilver Messenger Service. A group of Mavericks that combined a wide range of instruments into their music which allowed it to span multi-genres. You hear all the influences in their music and it starts with the drummer. He could play hard driving rock or Bossa nova, he could play Afro Cuban rhythms or hold it down while a horn section led by Ro...
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The Tony Dagradi Interview
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"The sustainability of art is constant movement between modes and scales, lyrics, melodies, symmetry, odd meters and a fundamental believe in the huminality of music. My guest today has been performing in Big Brass Bands the last 6 decades. He has been creating trends and staying on the productive side of the hill even as the fallibility and short comings of man are self-evident. He was co founder of the A&M record label and was instrumental in fashioning music that appealed to a society tha...
Sep 22, 2020•47 min
The Ike Willis Interview
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The Ronnie Hawkins Interview
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The Mike Barone Interview
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