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...

People talk about the British Invasion as “The Beatles…” That the Beatles encouraged original song writing and individuality. They also are given credit for introducing Indian Music and polyrhythms  to our humble land. But what about those who don’t sing on McLemore...

  In the annals of guitar players each has their own individual sound. Most beg, steal or borrow licks they learned along the way from Otis Rush, Wes Montgomery and Chet Atkins. Then the individual takes over and takes all they have learned and add their own unique twist which helps sets...

  The bravest man in the universe used to wake the morning and get his breakfast in bed but then realized its a lot more fun to cross 110th street with JJ Johnson and Stu Gardner. My guest is one of the most prolific musicians in our countries history. He came of age with his brothers...

  High above the seas lies The Geeta land. One that thrives on epiphanies, and work ethic and woodshedding like Sonship Woody Theus. It is a land found by some but only then do you become an innovator a continual seeker continual expansion of sound and mind, polyrhythms and with Ron...

    Country music comes from the heart of the south in our country. It speaks to the prairies and bogs and swamps and hoe downs that keep communities alive and full of life. Popular country music of today is represented by Cowboys who might look handsome and play the role but...

  Why was the book written was to set the record straight? This is important because at one time post Jim Morrison there was a a harmony between Manzarek, Kreiger and my guest….like a spear they blazed through and became a band of melodic invention with studio cats like Ray...

  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...

  Before interconnection and the mass marketing of music you had regional music. Music that was created in the real time with definitive characteristics of certain parts of the country and its rhythms. Some had urban feels like The Chicago Shuffle and the beat of Dixieland or the fact...

Entertainers need to be aware of what’s happening all around them. The great entertainers are aware of all the best that’s  around them.The best education, the best food and of coarse the best music. The kind of music that comes from your soul- or maybe even deeper.Jimmy Smith...

  The success of Batdorf and Rodney was a confluence of factors. They came of age during free form radio. You might here The Flying Burrito Brothers followed by Cannonball followed by Buck Owens.The jam circuit was alive and well for these seasoned woodsheders. They could go coast to...

  My guest springs from the jug band scene of Boston, MA. The Club 47 where self empowered woman like my guest and Maria Muldaur came from.The hardscrabble Cambridge post beat scene with Peter Rowan and Jim Kweskin and Fritz Richmond were cultivating the remnants of blind blues players...

  Most people think of the violin as a classical instrument. Most classical cats are pretty uptight. It takes someone with unbridled passion and bravery to step outside and swing down a lazy river road, through the heart of Memphis, or play rock with jazz asthetics.Because when you play...

  A major portion of my show has been devoted to rhythm sections for Dizzy Gillespie Miles Davis and Jerry Garcia.I’ve interviewed Chuck Rainey and Bernard Purdie and Kenneth Spider Rice who held down MoTown along with Ed Greene and those Crusaders like Wilton Felder and Joe...

  My guest today is one of the forefathers of Americas only true art form.He was born in New Orleans, LA which in this hosts opinion was one of two Meccas of African Roots Music. The other bring Harlem.Starting out on Tenor Saxophone my guest switched over to the piano and began swinging...

  Sicily is 17 miles from the coast of Africa which is where the origins of rhythm lie. The ancestral heritage of that country bled into the soul of my guests family who came to this country to play straight ahead, pulsating melodic invention, syncretic music engrained in New Orleans,...

  My show has been dedicated to entrepreneurs. Creators of percussive instruments that increase the sonic nature of music. The “Mark Tree” and the water phone, the Gravity Adjusters Expansion Band and New Music of the West.My show has also been dedicated to  the congero. The...

  In the great lexicon of drummers some are often equipped with a lot to say. They know their primary job is to accompany and swing the band but it hard when they have their own thing to say.Mose Allison once said that producers and A&R guys wanted drummers to play backbeat in order...

  The life of a life musical performer playing Syncretic Music or Melodically improvising or playing your ass off its all music.My guest today has continually put himself out there for the world to see either in metrics, instrumentation, cultural authenticity and peppering audiences with...

    Larry Vann   To become a member of the Jake Feinberg Show…        ...

  My guest today has been a band leader for over 60 years. He made his name playing the vibes which is this hosts favorite instrument.It’s a percussion instrument with a warm sound and can be played in a trio setting the way Red Norvo did with Tal Farlow and Mingus or in a Quintet...

  Art is to be shared and not to be judged. Shared in a world of non conformity with others who bring their own gifts to a project.In the case of my guest he is saint maybe his hardest critic because he at a relatively early age got his feet wet under the tutelage of Patti Smith and...

  Bill Vitt   To become a member of the Jake Feinberg Show…        ...

As the lizards lie underneath my porch on the back patio I sit here sweating in 100 degree weather I think about my guest and his perception of nature, his perception of art and his perception of the human.His perception of nature is one of beauty on inside and outside. He is one to extend a...

I sit here today in BBS totally humbled. Humbled by the fact that my searching for authenticity has led me to an iconic figure.I really am awed by the fact that my guest was submerged in one of the greatest regional music scenes in our countries history. The Bay Area – the intermeshing...

  My guest today survives in the world of music because of his open mindedness  when it comes to musical settings.In an early time he probably would have been picked up by one of the Titans and caravan around the world playing 3 sets a night at some club. His identity would be one known...

  Mel Martin   To become a member of the Jake Feinberg Show…        ...

Coming to America:   “I came here at the invitation of Tony Williams. Who even today, nobody plays like Tony. The closest drummer to Tony today is Cindy Blackman.I’m over there in Europe. Lets not equate the European Jazz scene with the American Jazz Scene. Today...

  This journey has provided me with an education. The education has occurred because those who seek have always sought truth. In the case of my guest it was the stone truth of music and the musicians who made it.The swing of Dixie and the marching bands. The Ed Bogas Soundtrack Machine...

  Stevens   To become a member of the Jake Feinberg Show…        ...

“They didn’t treat us like Niggers”By Jon HendricksThe Mafia gave us the opportunity“I worked for a branch of the mob that supported jazz in the Midwest. I was working @ 12 years old with Art Tatum at a club called “The Waiters and Bellman’s Club owned by...

“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...

  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...

  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...

  Calling all unsung heroes. That’s right, you over there who can read music and write compositions with something to say. Unsung heroes have been prevalent on the JFS, Guys who oozed the cosmic plasma of listening to each other. When everyone is listening then and only then can...

  As Branch Rickey said,”Luck Is The Residue of Design.” If that’s the case then this host walked ass backwards into Lucky Thompsonville exploring the players who created regional music in this country prior to full interconnection. Cosmic Cowboys who played with Hugh...

  Ever heard of Jug? Gene Ammons along with Sonny Stitt? Maybe Willis  Jackson or Red Holloway. These cats were mercenaries on the band stand counting off Cherokee at some ridiculous tempo that would separate the common artist from the professional. Take a trip down to Jim and...

  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...

  Freedom Riders, the classic Art Blakey album, honoring those who were brave enough to go into the deepest pockets of Racism and Bigotry in our country for a cause. The equal rights that each of of us has in this country. In mother Africa this is not the case and in recent years...

  How to stand out in the digital age? Maybe it’s easier then I think if your a musician – especially one imploring contemporary cross cultural improvisation. Playing traditional classical instruments with a trap set or Cunga drums or synthesizers reminiscent of Dr. Patrick...

  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,...

  Finns Again Don’t turn your back on love as the old country boy would say except now the country boy is made to look like a cowboy a manufactured boy who as Russell Smith told me ain’t no cowboy. The point here is authenticity. When you go onstage do you connect with the...