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The Jake Feinberg Show

Jake Feinberg•www.jakefeinbergshow.com
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Music Interviews
Become a Paid Subscriber: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jake-feinberg/subscribe 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 Deodato Interview

During the military dictatorship that engulfed Brazil in the 60s my guest today left the beautiful city of Rio to immigrate to the United States. He grew up with the rhythms that have come to be known as "Bossa Nova" and that craze crept into our national consciousness and the record industry at roughly the same time he came to the US. He was an autodidact and from an early age his ears were never locked. He wanted to learn how to play every key in every scale. Scoresheet, notepads, melodies and...

Oct 04, 2020•47 min

The Jim Keltner Interview Set II

So many amazing interviews – thank you so much. I think the two Keltner interviews are among my favorites. Lots of appreciation from me here in London for what you are doing. John Kieffer

Oct 04, 2020•1 hr 3 min

Riding The Moment With Denny Zeitlin & George Marsh

My guests are sound creators of the highest order. They both have been extrapolating off the grid for the last 50 years. One got noticed and appreciated by John Hammond which sparked a career on Columbia. The other was playing with JJ Johnson & an unknown Barbara Streisand @ Champagne Urbana. Both of my guests came to San Francisco in the middle part of the 1960s. They were established jazz musicians who could play funk or pop or blues or free music for a living. They were mentors for a whol...

Oct 03, 2020•1 hr 5 min

The Dusty Ray Simmons Interview

Ubiquitous drummer talks about developing feel on the bandstand in a variety of different musical settings.

Oct 03, 2020•1 hr 22 min

The Jacklyn LaBranch Interview

My guest today is a woman of the church. A congregation that was not afraid to own the blues which is where that music hails from. Gospel Music when intermeshed with blues creates soul and today we present a serenade to a soul sister who is deeply connected to the spiritual oasis of playing with Jerry Garcia. She came aboard in 1983 during a transitional time for both the band and Jerry. Relentless touring in the Spring, Summer and Fall which didn't include the keystone Gigs in Berkeley or Palo ...

Oct 03, 2020•36 min

The Doug Kershaw Interview

The unincorporated land of Louisiana. Where the native Americans of of all descents were Unencumbered by cultural biases and norms. These were small communes of different peoples who were bombastic and playing regional Music of the swamps. My guest plays Cajun Fiddle in myriads of settings and his musicianship and entertaining capacities are in the same class as Professor Longhair and Bill Monroe, Dolly Parton and John Lee Hooker. He grooves and growls playing live aid benefits for the farmers w...

Oct 03, 2020•31 min

The John Jab'o Starks Interview

Doing it to death, the relentless pouring of sweat and grit to hold it down and be an accompanist for the greatest self-expressionist of our time. My guest kept the beat and played the rhythms that helped James Brown reach international stardom. He would play the same groove for 15 minutes while Jimmy Brown carried on and drove those rhythms Stone Soul Lyrics captured from all the urban venues that existed at one time in this country. My guest still is secure enough to play out and pass the peas...

Oct 03, 2020•36 min

The Mike Clark/Bill Vitt Interview

Still very active, still very strong. Leading the way without being the leader. Years of giving back making wine and playing their butts off. It started sometime ago when My two guests found their way to Sacramento at a time when the city was buzzing with night Life @ Dave's Soul Kitchen where my guests learned how to play funky soul grooves and against the time. They played off each other taking the late show and than the late late show while parishioners were heading off to church my guests we...

Oct 03, 2020•30 min

The Patrick Gleeson Interview

The Doctor is in this week checking up on patients who have been sonically altered. His synthesizers became beams of light, always light bouncing of the Electronic Music in the late 60s. My guest is a heavyweight musician. He had gotten to leave this planet with Charles Eariand and burn hot melodic chordal mosaics of sound in a "Sextant" with Herbie Hancock or Love Love with Julian Priester or playing free music with Woody Shaw and Michael Howell. He came from The Bay. The San Francisco Bay Area...

Oct 03, 2020•1 hr 1 min

The John Scher Interview Set II

​It Was Always About ​by John Scher ​When I started working with the Grateful Dead in the mid-70s, there was no traditional manager. Once things clicked between me and the band as a promoter, they came to this realization that they just didn’t want to deal with the outside world. They didn’t want to deal with the outside business world, for sure. They left a lot of it to me. I was never their manager, but I was sort of their representative. I made some of their record deals and I booked their to...

Oct 02, 2020•56 min

The Al DiMeola Interview

Many of us have gifts and if we begin to access our true nature those gifts become accentuated. How did you do that? Did it matter? does it now? If you don't put yourself out there then those gifts can not be acted on and your true nature will remain unrefined. My guest has been putting himself out there his whole life. Northern Exposure in swampy jersey Bars or the Bitter End with Terry Silverlight or at Berklee School of Music. He's stayed in a few splendid hotels in his day shredding on his a...

Oct 02, 2020•40 min

The Shira Cohen Interview

Divine yogic healer talks about overcoming adversity in her life and how that has made her stronger constitutionally and a more effective teacher and mother.

Oct 02, 2020•1 hr 11 min

The George Young Interview

Epic session musician and live performer talks about his musical life and philosophies.

Oct 02, 2020•57 min

The Dango Rose Interview

Humanitarian, yogic practitioner and multi-instrumentalist talks about healing himself and others during this turbulent times.

Oct 01, 2020•1 hr 14 min

The Tony Orlando Interview

My guest today is an icon of show business entertainment. He has no qualms with this considering the hard scrabble life that he ascended from. He came out of the functional dysfunction of Hell's Kitchen where you needed to be a street scholar- learning what to do and what not to do. He grew up with street gangs that were much more ruthless than West Side Story would depict along with the Puerto Rican rhythms that his mother brought state side. The ability to swing, the Cha Cha Cha, when music wa...

Oct 01, 2020•1 hr 10 min

The Bobby Hutcherson Interview

My guest today is a torch bearer of melodic improvisation. A master of melodies, chromatic modal patterns of improvisation that open space for drummers like Eddie Marshall and Joe Chambers who say "Hello to the Wind." My guest came of age under the iron man sweetheart Eric Dolphy when he went by the more formal Robert. But his endearing nature, positive path of constant creation created love amongst his bandmates so soon he was known as Bobby. His impact on the east coast jazz scene was heavy. H...

Oct 01, 2020•57 min

The Michael Shrieve Interview Set II

"Carlos (Santana) and I were meant to be together because we have the same sort of searching mentality. Always searching for the right note, right tone and he is a master of melody. He's like an encyclopedia of melodies and still Carlos' musical roots are deep, it's a deep well that he draws on because he listens to so much music from around the world. He's like a sponge so he's got a real sense of melody. That melody combined with his intensity. I loved playing music behind it, being the drumme...

Oct 01, 2020•1 hr 16 min

The John Scher Interview

To be an impresario takes guts. You are a fan sometimes rapid fan and need to find a way to turn a profit. In today's touring circuit it's Tom Waits warmed over covered in corporate sponsors in a sea of digital music that has been forces into peoples ears do the last two decades. My guest today was a chance taker before full interconnection. He came up when college universities had resources to fund the arts and the brainchild of the touring circuit began. My guest is a passionate music lover. H...

Oct 01, 2020•57 min

The Billy Goldner Interview

I have reached out to musicians from a different era on this radio escapade. Cats that could be my dad or uncle. Not that I didn't have a great Dad and Uncle but in many ways tapping into these brothers and sisters has been self sustaining finding those in their glory years. Still productive, still active still, feeling alive. As with the musicians I am carving a similar path up that deli trail to Camp Scatico talking in the ears of my elders because let's face it, they've put in more time on pl...

Sep 30, 2020•34 min

The Jeff Coffin Interview

I have reached out to musicians from a different era on this radio escapade. Cats that could be my dad or uncle. Not that I didn't have a great Dad and Uncle but in many ways tapping into these brothers and sisters has been self sustaining finding those in their glory years. Still productive, still active still, feeling alive. As with the musicians I am carving a similar path up that deli trail to Camp Scatico talking in the ears of my elders because let's face it, they've put in more time on pl...

Sep 30, 2020•1 hr 1 min

The Phil Schaap Interview

The culture of jazz is clearly built around the music but the culture only exists because of enlightened cats who were reared in the presence of greatness. Artistic greatness and in a humanitarian sense as well. My guest is one of the cats I speak off. He took advantage of his early childhood connections and used his native gifts to help explain transcendent music. Music that was played By Bird and Wade Legge John Coltrane and my guests babysitter Papa Jo Jones. It's was an accessible community ...

Sep 30, 2020•1 hr
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