The Phoenix Alchemy Interview
Somatic healer talks about her inner work in the ongoing journey towards enlightenment.
Sep 16, 2020•1 hr 8 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 Bill Huntington Interview
Stalwart banjo, guitar and string bass player talks about being raised by older black musicians on the bandstand and living a musical life in The Big Easy.
Sep 15, 2020•1 hr 2 min
The Joe Russo Interview
It’s Just Metal, Joey by Joe Russo What a badass move by Phil! He took a chance on a guy (me) who had never really listened to the Grateful Dead, except begrudgingly at parties or quitting my high-school band ’cause they wanted to play “Fire on the Mountain.” It just wasn’t my thing. Our paths crossed in 2006, when Marco Benevento and I were play-ing with Mike Gordon and Trey Anastasio and we did some dates with Phil & Friends. We played together at The Jammys and did “Casey Jones” and “...
Sep 14, 2020•1 hr 23 min
The Bob James Interview
With the passing of Dave Brubeck this week it brought again to the forefront the idea of bold conceivers. Those who can compose and arrange and orchestrate. Those who can read music and those who have that element of street music the swagger, the smoothness, the focus. The ability to listen to the hip cake bass lines of Gary King. the opportunity to conduct and arrange big bands for movie soundtracks and national television programs and the occasional wah wah pedal parts for the old farmer Joe B...
Sep 14, 2020•1 hr 14 min
The Gerald Wilson Interview
On Detroit: "My mother sent me to school there to go to Cass. Tech. There were no segregated schools in Detroit, MI. There were no segregated colleges in Detroit, Mi. We were second to Juilliard and we were a high school! Juilliard recently celebrated its 100 birthday but they have only had jazz for seven years now. Cass Tech had a symphony orchestra and three jazz bands in the school. They taught harmony, orchestration, percussion. They did a lot to improve the situation in jazz and of course s...
Sep 13, 2020•54 min
The Jamaaladeen Tacuma Interview
There were guys who thinking of the bass as a first voice. You had cats like Eberhardt Weber on upright, Stanley (Clarke), Jaco (Pastorious), they were definitely trailblazers at that time on the electric bass. Then you had cats like Monk Montgomery whose credited with being the first to play the electric bassist. When fender gave the bass to Lionel Hampton who gave it on to Monk. We're talking 1951, the first precision bass. Monk was still chomping at it, still laying a foundational sound. Then...
Sep 13, 2020•1 hr 5 min
The Mark Farner Interview
Explosive guitar player from Grand Funk Railroad talks about his extraordinary musical career.
Sep 13, 2020•1 hr 5 min
The Justin Kreutzmann Interview Set III
Filmmaker talks about his Grateful endeavors and all the gratitude that comes with it.
Sep 13, 2020•1 hr
The Hoona Kim Interview
Conduit to divine spiritual music discusses her musical life and learning her singing patterns though rhythm and dance.
Sep 13, 2020•57 min
The Allan Schwartzberg Interview
The Jewish musician, often an afterthought in melodic invention. Italians, Blacks, Latino's sure but prolific Judaic studio cats - get outta here. Still when you immerse yourself within the musical tribe you find that the brothers come in all shapes and sizes, creeds and colors. If you can keep time, play behind the beat or in front of it, hold it down While Harold Vick is blowing cosmic waves, lock the groove with James Brown or go cross country with Bob Mann then you begin to get an idea of my...
Sep 11, 2020•1 hr 16 min
The Taj Mahal Interview
Just happy being myself so says the man who is held together by music. Music played with adherence to the world around us and the unique features of each enclave, village and Appalachian trailed that has been carved out by man. Sometimes I will travel back to Taiwan where my wife is from and I see the indigenous people, the Native Soil and the organic nature of life the way my guest creates music. From the earth itself..... His grunting, scrapin' tripping, to get inspired. Learning from his dad ...
Sep 11, 2020•37 min
The Juini Booth Interview
When the spirits call they do so with the understanding that I understand that I am merely part of the wave of history and that if I am to do a decent job covering ethnomusicology in the states then it my job to push that boulder up the hill a little bit at a time until the next cat comes around to push it a little bit more. I get to realizing that the real authenticity of my show is interviewing the guys who play for a tree of genies high above the clouds dropping radiant acoustic bombs at a bl...
Sep 11, 2020•1 hr 6 min
The Clifford Coulter Interview
On my program the Bay Area has been a major focus of my journey to a land before my time. The heliport, Denny Zeitlin, Vovo, Sly Stone, Jacks on Sutter, Jimbo's Bop City, Wally Heider Studios and so much more. Yet, another part of the Golden Bay is San Jose which had it own regional music scene separate from San Francisco. East Side San Jose, the gospel and blues coming out of the church and night clubs churning notes that were Fixing to Die with Hamstrung Guitar and a Hammond Organ with the Les...
Sep 11, 2020•56 min
The John Turk Interview
Godfather of the East Bay and San Jose music collective. RIP to an iconic creator.
Sep 11, 2020•38 min
The John Sebastian Interview
The latter portion of the sixties was a gymnasium of live venues which permeated sounds of acoustic instruments like Fritz Richmond's washtub base or Paul Harris' ivory for the evening. An even dozen sophisticated white musicians trying to play authentic roots music with their mentors. Through these live venues you saw the visceral qualities of Tim Hardin, Sivuca, Odetta and my guest all in one week. The differentiation the non conformity in a non violent way all the while playing music that was...
Sep 11, 2020•50 min
The Jim Kweskin Interview
Do you know what SRP stands for, it's an acronym for a very sterile system of learning that leads to followers, copy cating, no individuality.....in music SRP stands for Standard Recording Procedure. The way of confining musicians to make music they don't want to create. The ties that bind, the money the 3 record companies remaining in this land.....a squeamish representation of dosing Billy Eckstine with punch on the way down to Vanguard Studios. My guest today is an authentic musician who is c...
Sep 11, 2020•1 hr 3 min
The Fred Wesley Interview
Free your mind and your ass will follow so says the parliamentary head of funk while my guest is creating funk for your ass.... That southern fried home cookin....that homemade bread and biscuits and gravy and cobbler with a side of Harvey Mason or Jimmy Madison or Clyde Stubblefield going across 110th street and catching a big payback of marching bands and the gulf coast sound coming from the Crimson Tide and the southern home fried gumbo marinating inside my guests jukebox memories.... Of list...
Sep 10, 2020•58 min
The Dr. Patrick Gleeson Interview Part II
Iconic synth pioneer in an ongoing discussion about music and life....
Sep 10, 2020•45 min
The Rick Marotta Interview
I knew how to play a shuffle because I listened to music and played what guys played in the shuffle. When I was playing in "Riverboat Soul Band" we had a couple of songs that were shuffles. It was a ten piece band so when I played the shuffle it felt fine. Charlie (Neville) pulled me aside and said, "you know your shuffle sounds great, but it would feel really good if you played it a little differently." I said, "what do you mean?" He said, "well I'll show you." Charles played alto in the band w...
Sep 10, 2020•1 hr 6 min
The Rick Marotta Interview Set II
Sometimes you hear people speaking a different language like Spanish. You don't really understand the language but you know what they're saying. Other times you hear people speaking in Chinese and you don't have any grasp of what it is. When I listen to Monk play improvisation with a trio or quartet that's a whole different story. I really understand that this guy is thoughtful and he's not racing anybody Oddly enough when I listened to Monk, before I understood how his mind worked (mental illne...
Sep 10, 2020•1 hr 28 min
The Daoud Shaw Interview
"Ultimately in the big picture the best music happens live, I believe. In front of an audience where everyone is interacting and there's interplay. Everybody's playing at the same time the audience is playing @ the same time. You may have preconceived notions before you hit the bandstand of what your going to do and how your going to do it- your going to get your favorite lick in here but magic happens when everyone is doing it together. If you can capture some of that and at the same time you c...
Sep 10, 2020•1 hr 22 min
The Tom Constanten Interview
Where to begin with my guest today. Maybe in the Cosmos dwelling in a lab suit concocting a keyboard that allows Dave Brubeck and Darius Milhaud to reincarnate themselves in a bastion of Hammond Pedals that's Pigpen brought over from Novato. My guest has written many chapters on his ride through life. He was at the forefront of what was then considered "New Music." He was one of the avant garde composers who was expanding sound sonically - not just playing but listening to Phil Lesh who he met w...
Sep 10, 2020•1 hr 21 min
The Tisziji Munoz Interview
The Degradation of Love... "To soon after birth, we are not allowed to come into the world and then be called to love. We come into the world as some egoic manifestation self serving extension of our ancestry. This is the first hurdle. How do we get over that? Now we're a Bobby. Now we're a Mary. It's just that, no more no less. Already subordinate to anyone larger then we are. So we are born into this madness and we are just kids! Kids have the potential of the divine. We are born out of and fr...
Sep 10, 2020•1 hr 34 min
The Baba Ken Okulolo Interview
The Gallop, the rhythm, the beat the pulse. A driving pulsating rhythm that makes the body move and the mind expand. Music in Africa has always been used to alleviate the pain and suffering of the common folk. Held under the thumb of military governments, foreign oppressors and self inflicted wounds. This music the Afro-Beat comes from the drum. An apparatus that has been used over centuries to communicate. It was used in Africa during colonial times. They were used during diaspora on the ships ...
Sep 10, 2020•1 hr 13 min
The Stephanie Spruill Interview
"I kept saying daddy, daddy I want some drums, so eventually he bought me some drums. I was a little girl maybe 4 or 5 years old. It was something innate that he wanted to cultivate. When there's eight kids in the house and 10 people total you don't want to hear any drums or banging. It was an innate energy that we had. We were rhythm. I was just doing a session and I was trying to get the choir to do a combination of rhythms. They weren't nailing it so I said; "look, y'all follow me because I a...
Sep 10, 2020•1 hr 43 min
The Ra-Kalam Bob Moses Interview
Back when I was a junior in college I went to see my guest with John Medeski @ the Sommerville Theatre in the Cambridge area of Mass. I say in the upper reaches of the venue a small vaudeville style place perfect for intimacy through improvisation. My brain was addled with some kind of mushroom tea so as my guest thrashed, chanted, communicated and swung the band he was giving me a preview of a trip I did not know I was on. His career has spanned the last four decades. He has been a drummer with...
Sep 10, 2020•1 hr 13 min
The Mike Finnigan Interview
Oh the whispering pines.....the Appalachian trail carving out a pathway towards the Mississippi Delta. The old hickory BBQ and the bourbon and the blending of gospel, blues, Bayou boogie and Jayhawkin' through the cornfields. My guest hails from the great state of Kansas. He has done and seen it all in music. Played at the Grand Ole Opry, local watering holes, Medicine Shows, Mafia laden clubs and lesbian joints. That's before during and after being a swing man on the Kansas Men's Basketball tea...
Sep 10, 2020•1 hr 12 min
The David Lindley Interview Set II
Total Wizard
Sep 10, 2020•1 hr 27 min
The Michael Diamente Interview
First generation Italian immigrant talks about building his American Dream and how his family has inspired him to keep growing.
Sep 10, 2020•1 hr 28 min
The David Lindley Interview
"We Camet to the Conclusion" By David Lindley In those days (Mid/Late 1960's) there was free form radio, Tom Donahue. You would hear George Jones, Ravi Shankar, and Jean Luc Ponty, and then some more George Jones. It was that way on purpose, which was a statement, a really eloquent statement which is, ‘Music is pretty much the same, for the same reasons.’ It showed everybody that all these people were going through pretty much the same thing. It's all valid.... Anything that sounded good to me, ...
Sep 10, 2020•1 hr 1 min
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