The just way It Had to Be....isn't that the old saying when you look back and ahead in the moment. It's teddy Edwards blowing some West Coast Southern California Hard Bop with the melodic percussive vibes of Milt Jackson playing bags groove keeping time with Ray Brown and the late...

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  The drum chair and he who sits in it. Self taught developing your own style through craft and putting yourself in different musical settings. My guest today is from the same musical generation as John Coltrane, Wes Montgomery, Elvin Jones, Miles Davis, Tony Williams and Papa Joe Jones....

  San Francisco, back again my friend to the days of wine and roses -Cal Tjader, Bayete, Armando Peraza, Eddie Marshall Ron Stallings,  and the rest of the Mill Valley Gang which included David "What are their names" Crosby. San Francisco was a beautiful artistic enclave before anybody...

  *w/ special guest Will Duncan   The cycle of birth and death. Who are you born to, what kind of family is it? Is it love or hate or both. Love and Hate, Fear and Insecurity, Stone Genius one step forward 3 back 2 sideways. I'm Grateful for it all. I'm grateful to be surrounded by...

  One of the 4Ls of the JFS is Lineage. The idea of a family tree, where unique sounds originated from and where the sound spectrum lives in today's electronica world. The father of Bluegrass was Bill Monroe, John Lee Hooker Champion Jack Dupree, Howlin Wolf and Muddy Waters, Michael...

When I started my show 4 years ago It was with the understanding of taking my native gifts and doing positive inspirational work, building a brand which at its core is about substance over style. As William Faulkner said, "history is what's happening today." First I had to develop my...

  RIP Dr. King.   JF     Listen to an excerpt of the Bill Cosby Interview: Bill Cosby [Download]   To become a member of the Jake Feinberg Show and gain instant access to the full interview...        ...

  In a day in age when younger cats including myself feel a need to change the subject it has created a musical feel of anxiety and over reaching. The need to show off ones chops at the expense of real authentic music seems to have pervaded the universal language of communication. My...

  RAT ON Rat on Rat on. My guest is not himself these days because if he was he would be settling in to the latter stages of life, winding down and having his larger family contingent pick up where he left off. But that's not how this chapter is being written. My guest today is...

Diaspora, the actual transfer of slaves from Africa to the middle islands was endemic of the cut throat policies that empires had and still have. What kept the slaves together spirituality was the drum and the rhythms that came from the drum...let the body dance the mambo or the bolero or...

  My guest today is a Romantic Warrior from the city of brotherly love he roams the streets with his upright bass aware of the sounds of Philadelphia. Northern Soul, Folk Blues and Jazz. He turns the corner to the earl Theatre where Wilbur Ware and James Garrison and Reggie Workman held...

  Technique on the drum kit is essential but meaningless without the infusion of soul. Cats have monster chops but sometimes you look up on the bandstand and they are not listening- they are thrashing trying to eek out some kind of ego maniacal communication that does nothing to elevate...

  The evolution of the blues written and performed by Jon Hendricks was a direct critique of where the blues emanated from. It was a reminder of the gospel tinged spirituals of the church and the preachers who slung a guitar over themselves to sing and pick and lament those lost days in...

    My guest today is a lover, leader and life giver of music. The decisions that he makes correlate to art and relationships because you must have intimate relationships with cats to make real music.Cats like Dino Danelli who came up playing swing music with the likes of Lionel...

  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...

  How far is it to the end of the Universe? Maybe you'll get their by the Marakesh Express or swung into Oblivion.The Universe is mind expanding and so is pure jazz which mixes all musics in an improvisational fire storm that incorporates European Classical and The only art form this...

  This program has been dedicated to the unsung. Those who lie below the surface waiting for the phone to ring and the calendar to fill up.It's these unsung folks that made careers for the pop stars that most people are familiar with.It's a quarter past 10 and my guest is disassembling...

  Mind Language for Lovers. It started way back when with Phil Upchurch and Harvey Mason and Roger Glenn. Cats that got the charts 20 min before, maybe never even saw them and just played as if their life depended on it.Didn't matter what genre, they were impossible to classify. Could...

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...

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 there's a lot more...

  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 inside...

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 Ave or croon like James...

  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 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...

Who's to bless and who's to blame when it comes to the chronicling the frontiersman of music. Blessings go to Wayne Henderson and Herb Wong both of whom we lost recently as cats who played and wrote their asses off when it came to melodic invention.Much of the hoopla surrounding dance music...

  My guest today relentlessly pursues individual sound. He knows the spirit inside him sings from an island shore in the middle of the world, a cotton field in New Madrid Missouri or at Smalls Paradise in Harlem where Jimmy Smith would groove that organ like a wailer. My guest today is a...

Nat King Cole put his life on the line playing music. He was an inspiration to many a young pianist who saw the way to communicate musically. To break down all the barriers that people put in there way. Nat King Cole and Oscar Peterson inspired cats like my guest who grew up in...

The entertainer, the one who stares into that distant fantasy. The one who can block out the distractions of the mind and knock on the golden door. The one who can out stamina everybody else in the room dripping through a purple izod and pointing to the promised land. The one who can love and...

  Preserving American Folk Music with the Dawg!   Listen to an excerpt of the David Grisman Interview: David Grisman [Download]   To become a member of the Jake Feinberg Show and gain instant access to the full interview...        ...

  How late will you play to till Mr. Bojangles? Maybe till their waltzing the last time @ the Winterland Ballroom or being Hillbilly Jazzers out on the farm with Vassar Clements. Turn on your porch light Angel band because its time for some pickin' be it dobro, mandolin, guitar or...

  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...

  Individualism is key in all art. To be individualistic you must borrow from others which means you have to get inside their world and become more secure because of the insecurity. You are humbled not by the money or name recognition but because of the genuine article. The good Reverand...

    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 aren't...

  In the live music experience the most important aspects that can be conveyed to the audience are authenticity and individuality. True nature and differentiation. Not being a good rock star helps. You wear any old clothes and grab a hot meal not leaving on a jet plane but taking a bus....

While this host has primarily looked state side for hotbeds of regional music there were cities north of the border that were just as impressive.North of the motor city lies Toronto in Canada which was a mix of immigrants and hillbillies. Farmers and Fishers and Indians all there to seek...

Where have I known you before. The shadow of doubt that creeps into everyone's psyche as they journey through life. Some check out early, some stay late some exercise the power of the drum to create melodic invention and a style of communication that is a talk with the spirits sight unseen or...

  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 Neopolitan...

  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...

At times in life you feel adrift. Unable to harness the love and the passion that reins inside. When you begin to evolve in any art you start on that far away Oregon Hill with a Hawk flying overhead. Knowing that John Mclaughlins guitar might swoop up and under and around my guests bass...

My show is and has always been about leadership, love and life. Leadership from those spirits who have long since left this planet, and the lessons we can learn from them. love,  for the commitment to musical excellence and letting the power off the orchestra feed off each other. The ability...

For quite some time half a century ago only two schools in this country had jazz programs. One was N. Texas State and the other was the Berkeley School of Music in Boston. My guest today is one of the earliest alumni's of a school that has produced the likes of Alan Broadbent, Ernie Watts,...

How is one elevated to the land of giants especially when it comes to music. For my guest today it had a lot to do with biding his time, forming deep collaborations and a selfless heart. He has played spiritual burning music with a generation of musicians who were prolific in their writing,...

  "What's happening in today's world is that everything is happening so quickly that the minute a good idea comes along it doesn't have a chance to drop root because we have already moved on to the next idea and then another idea and then another idea You find people clamoring to sink...

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 laying on his...

  When I tell my friends that I'm interviewing Jack DeJohnette everyone has their own image.  For drummers they might Identify with technique and musicality, for avid fans it might conjure associations with miles davis, Joe henderson and the ECM label. For this host Jack DeJohnette...

                            When I look back on this endeavor that I have undertaken this will be one of those interviews that I will look back on with great excitement. Airto needed to go to a wedding otherwise we might...

  "The guitar for me had become a residence for me. I had been initially exposed to some incredibly efficient artists in jazz. Not only on the guitar, but many different instruments. This was a dream for me to be able to participate in this community with so many different facets that I...

  How do you grow in life? How do you grow on your instrument? How do you fit into different musical settings? How, How, How? The answers are not absolute but my guest today carved his own path of seeking, exploring and playing. In order to grow in life you need to push yourself out of...

  As you put one foot in front of the other on the everyday journey of life in the end you want to sustain yourself and your family while doing something your passionate about. My guest today has made a career writing in multimedia formats about melodic improvisation. He has listened to...

  My next guest is someone who grew up in Philadelphia but who's roots lie in her native Lagos. She is a gifted artist and student who has gone to prestigious academic institutions and found her love of creative arts at the Hotchkiss School. She has collaborated writing plays for the...

  Brothers in arms, singing Whiskey Rock N Roll heading over to Twin Lakes to take shots with their friends eating some mushrooms at My Fathers Place In Roslyn, NY. In the annals of Scatico lore their have been brothers and sisters that have paved the way for lineage to exist. Brothers...

  As I continue to wade deeper into how real music is made I have stumbled across cats who were masters of all trades and helped the music grow both sonically and substantively. By this I mean they had the chops to play across the entire musical spectrum, they had gods gifts of love to...

  As we say goodbye to 2014 and enter in to a new year The Jake Feinberg Show continues to be humbled by the accessibility of my guest and his generation. Their not uptight, they groove they swing, they don't romanticize (sometimes)  and like my guest they write different chapters in...

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  Bova Land In Bova Land there are prisms of colors rays of Hammond organs with deep purple gel tabs going off a cliff in super funk rock jazz amalgamations. He comes from Old Greenwich, CT where the echoes of Clifford Brown and Blue Mitchell resonated deep inside Bova Land. Soon the man...

  Since I've been on PowerTalk 1210 I have leaned toward my native gifts of accessing authentic humanistic content from the most creative artists in all the land. How I got to where I am today is a combination of self determination Lewis and Clark Esque expansion, Scatico brotherhood and...

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  It all rolls into one. The endless years of studio work and road tours and temptations and swing. Some days are good some are bad. But it's the rhythm that keeps the motor churning. Rhythm from a section of individuals who have had a profound impact on my merging words with music. The...

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  One of the things I have done over the last 4 years is connect the dots on different amalgamations of musicians and their actions within a period of time in music when you could find work as a session player, play gigs @ strip clubs and the multitude of venues in every urban center in...

  Runaway Bay you say? Sounds like a gong with the ghost of Marcus Garvey and the chants of the sugar shakers...... The drum is a language all of its own. The rhythms on the 1/3 instead of 2 and 4 set reggae apart as a modern music be it ska, calypso, dub rock steady. My guest is from...

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