The Sam Cutler Interview Set II
Legendary rock manager talks about life in the fast lane....
Sep 06, 2020•42 min
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 Sam Cutler Interview
Legendary manager of the Rolling Stones and Grateful Dead talks truth to power!
Sep 06, 2020•59 min
The James "Izzy" Whetstine Interview
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.
Sep 06, 2020•1 hr 21 min
The Bill Cutler Interview
Jake…I really enjoyed the interview. Glad to see you speaking to a lot of great musicians and documenting important bands. Bill Cutler
Sep 06, 2020•1 hr 2 min
The Geoff Muldaur Interview
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 acoustic instruments. Everything was in mono. It's not easy for white folks to comp Blind Lemon Jefferson, ...
Sep 06, 2020•1 hr 2 min
The Joe Sample Interview Set II
Soulful timeless piano player who will never be forgotten....
Sep 06, 2020•1 hr 24 min
The Amanda Feilding Interview
“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) becomes stronger. Under the psychedelic effect, the “default mode network” (ego) is reduced to the point...
Sep 06, 2020•1 hr 28 min
The Hal Blaine Interview
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 Phil Spector who hired jazzers like Conte Condoli, Plas Johnson, Pete Jolly and my guest. Baja Mari...
Sep 06, 2020•1 hr 7 min
The Russell Smith Interview
Muscle Shoals , Levon Helm , Jeff Davis , Amazing Ryhthm Aces , Nashville , Lucretia , The Jake Feinberg Show...
Sep 06, 2020•1 hr 4 min
The Melvin Van Peebles Interview
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 create black drama's that represented the Afro folk who he met everyday. Not some kabuki character wh...
Sep 06, 2020•1 hr 2 min
Live From The Keystone Korner With Todd Barkan
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 which was a duel musical outlet for psychedelia and jazz. And now we get to North Beach circa '72. A...
Sep 06, 2020•1 hr 14 min
The Putter Smith Interview
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.” I’ve kind of been in that ballpark since I was thirty. You’re trying to expand your hearing ability...
Sep 06, 2020•1 hr 4 min
The Bernard Purdie Interview
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 into different musical arrangements then you have the makings of a real swinger. My guest today has the...
Sep 06, 2020•1 hr 4 min
The Bill Payne Interview
Allan Toussaint , Taj Mahal , Kenny Gradney , Lowell George , Chico Hamilton , Jimi Hendrix , Mothers of Invention , Dennis McNally , The Jake Feinberg Show...
Sep 06, 2020•1 hr 13 min
The David Rubinson Interview
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 years to promoting unsung international heroes like Chiune Sugihara who as a Japanese Diplomat helped...
Sep 06, 2020•1 hr 1 min
The David Rubinson Interview Set II
Iconic producer of music and social justice for all people
Sep 06, 2020•53 min
The Art Lande Interview
Piano wizard and magician talks about collaborating with his peers and expanding musical vocabulary on the bandstand.
Sep 06, 2020•1 hr 23 min
The John Gross Interview
Titanic tenor player talks about his musical life; the ups downs and everything in between....
Sep 06, 2020•1 hr 17 min
The Jerry Granelli Interview
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 rhythms and African percussion. At the same time Santana's Latin rock escapade was burgeoning as well a...
Sep 05, 2020•57 min
The Elvin Bishop Interview
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 their thoughts; they did this by breaking color barriers, reaching over these barriers and showing g...
Sep 05, 2020•31 min
The David Williams Interview
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...
Sep 05, 2020•1 hr 10 min
The Gildo Mahones Interview
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 carries for her late husband in booking Sunday matinees at the Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach. Gildo is ...
Sep 05, 2020•54 min
The Michael White Interview
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 whims of the conductor. It is truly the spiritual ones who can blend their soul and instrument to take it...
Sep 05, 2020•1 hr 18 min
The Terry Clarke Interview
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 he was playing music in a band and he happened to be playing the drums. He could have been playing an...
Sep 05, 2020•1 hr 4 min
The Byron Berline Interview
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 can count." Kenny Baker said, "ah, he didn't ruin me."
Sep 05, 2020•52 min
The Raul Matute Interview
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
Sep 05, 2020•56 min
The Randy Brecker Interview
"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 because you're dealing with a whole new level of grief. In the ensuing years I've tried to do what I tho...
Sep 05, 2020•1 hr 7 min
The Abe Laboriel Interview
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 Orleans thing. Harry Blazer and I were both going to Berklee and in those days I didn't have a car or...
Sep 05, 2020•53 min
The Peter Albin Interview
Be a brother. One of the original cats on the Bay Area folk scene with Garcia, Nelson & Robert Hunter
Sep 05, 2020•1 hr 21 min
The John Allair Interview
Godfather of Marin County Music
Sep 05, 2020•1 hr 24 min
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