Behind the washtub basses and the fret less kind behind the Tuba's and any other instrument is the individual who engages with that apparatus. The sound that emanates from this instrument can depend upon the proficiency of the player, there use of scales and notes. Mathematics are part of it....but ultimately to be in a band you need to have a gig. And to have a gig you need to have soul. A collectivist mentality that as an accompanist you are doing your job making the leader sound as good as po...
Sep 10, 2020•1 hr 26 min
Did you ever feel lonesome? That high lonesome feeling of Appalachia. Where lush green hills and streams created the perfect environment for Bluegrass Music. How then do you account for musicians who didn't grow up in this region but were still able to be authentic and true to American roots music. Obviously it starts in the home. And my guests home was full of instruments and musicians. He understood the Alamo and how too beg steal or borrow two nickels or a dime to croon, yodel and sing be it ...
Sep 09, 2020•52 min
Art Blakey , Woody Shaw , NTU Troop , Contrabass , MBOOM , Joe Chambers , Mannes School , Howard King , Richard Davis The Jake Feinberg Show...
Sep 09, 2020•1 hr 8 min
This is a great interview of a fabulous musician who is not recognized .. unsung hero. Love him so much. On this great talking, Mundell could said that he can play with Frank Wess who is 91 years old too and still plays his ass off !!! "BEETHOVEN" (REISSER JEAN-MICHEL)
Sep 09, 2020•43 min
I had just come to New York and I was working with Kenny Dorham in the fall of 1959. I heard John (Coltrane) wanted to form his own quartet and leave Miles. Out of the blue I got his number and called him. I said, "I know you don't know who I am. I'm currently working with Kenny Durham but I would love it if we could get together and maybe play a little and talk about the music." He didn't say yay or nay, a couple of weeks later he called me and he had rented a little rehearsal studio about a bl...
Sep 09, 2020•1 hr 3 min
"Infinite Void" The MWANDISHI Band was evolved out of things that came from the past like from the Miles Davis (Bitches Brew) type of thing and the avant garde music of John Coltrane. This particular band was so unique in that it incorporated all those aspects of things from the past and brought it right to the forefront. It encompassed what was going on, from the racial turmoil, the revolutions that were going on. It was right at the forefront of society and was reflective through the music tha...
Sep 09, 2020•55 min
It was such a joy, listening to KSAN and driving to Wally Hieder’s studio and going back to Oakland listening to Dusty maybe 69-early 70’s..return Vietnam end of 68 so new life exploration. Best song Lightsout Mahdi. Thanks Don Alberto
Sep 09, 2020•31 min
The urban legend of Detroit is only for those generations who were not alive during the time when that city epitomized Asphalt Canyon Blues. What we see today with the Motor City is a shell of what it was when my guest today was growing up there. A thriving car industry driven by a migration of blacks from the south after mechanized equipment replaced plantation workers. This combination of family, church and education brought about a generation of local musicians like no other. Barry Harris, Ro...
Sep 08, 2020•57 min
In the 21st century the so called digital age the role of a producer and a musician has devolved into a potpourri of inanimate objects, the # of records you sell, how to make a hit, the drum machine, and a shrinking more rigid music industry. It's a far cry from when my guest first happened on the scene. From this hosts perspective idioms were less important then individuality. Enclaves of regional music crossed the great divide from Arkansas to Toronto. Leadership was defined as getting out of ...
Sep 08, 2020•1 hr 6 min
he state of New Jersey is situated perfectly between two musical Meccas. The soul brotherhood of Philadelphia and the Big Apple. Musicians who were lucky enough to grow up in this state were privy to the sounds of Dionne Warwick, Sigma Sound Studios and the vibrant African Jazz foothold that was beginning to take root in New York. My guest today took in this music and immediately began to cultivate his own sound. This individualistic streak was the catalyst for his Band The Wizards and Oz which ...
Sep 08, 2020•1 hr 13 min
Philadelphia , Jackie McLean , Carl Burnett , Pat Martino , Chestnut Street , Mosaic Records , Todd Barkan , Tributaries The Jake Feinberg Show...
Sep 08, 2020•1 hr 7 min
Scarf in the Wind , Arp Modulator , Mel Graves , John Hammond , George Marsh , SYGZY , Expanding Minds Jake Feinberg Show...
Sep 08, 2020•1 hr 4 min
Sons of Champlin , Geoff Palmer , Commerce , Mike Finnegan , Oscar Peterson , Bill Vitt , Yoshi's , The Jake Feinberg Show...
Sep 08, 2020•1 hr 14 min
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 vocal arrangements all fusing together in the shadow of Chess and Delmark Records. My guest today live...
Sep 08, 2020•1 hr 7 min
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 hole while Billy Kreutzmann was dancing on a pin. My guest today is someone who knew Brent better than...
Sep 08, 2020•48 min
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 cousin, Neal Anderson, was a partner with Sandy Pearlman who ran 415 records. They were students at S...
Sep 08, 2020•34 min
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 Edwards. I had the gig and I didn’t want to miss the gig. That was a night where I was just playing by i...
Sep 08, 2020•1 hr 20 min
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 with Bill Vitt flashing a style he cultivated @ Dave's soul kitchen and John Kahn a Bloomfield favorit...
Sep 08, 2020•51 min
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 in sunny southern California during the cool bop era and came of age with fellow luminaries like Geo...
Sep 08, 2020•1 hr 6 min
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. As these aspiring musicians grew there names became part of one of the great pockets in our music his...
Sep 08, 2020•1 hr 19 min
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...
Sep 08, 2020•57 min
Meters bassist breaking down his life in music on and off the bandstand.
Sep 07, 2020•1 hr 23 min
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 Dao for me is the nature of our being. My upbringing was tough, like most people. There was...
Sep 07, 2020•1 hr 1 min
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 have to time when you think it's the right time to give information. If it's not the right time it'...
Sep 07, 2020•42 min
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 Long Junk from Paul Simon playing those South African rhythms swinging the band burning inside. May...
Sep 07, 2020•1 hr 14 min
Iconic record producer talks about life in a musical world
Sep 07, 2020•28 min
Master producer talks about working at Verve Records as an A&R man
Sep 07, 2020•26 min
Versatile trombonist talks about life on the bandstand
Sep 07, 2020•1 hr 27 min
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 arise like a hundred year old cactus in the desert. Remember when you throw a t onto can you get the word ca...
Sep 06, 2020•1 hr 26 min
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.
Sep 06, 2020•59 min
