Jake Feinberg Show

Mike Clark is best known for his work with Herbie Hancock on the Headhunters. He and Paul Jackson roomed together in Oakland and turned into one of the most formidable rhythm sections in the world. Still, Mike is from the Art Blakey school of jazz and he loves to swing. So much so that continues to hold it down with the likes of Mike Wolff, Scott Hamilton and plays at clubs in Detroit like “The Magic Bag.” Still Mike’s formative years were in the Bay Area and during the early seventies so we are in the process of doing a 3-part interview on that time period, the music and what it meant.

Actual Proof

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“It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry.”

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When stationed at Fort Huachuca Vince Lateano used to play at supper clubs in Tucson to keep his chops up.
After he got out of the army he wound up in the Bay Area (where else) and wound up gigging with Vince Guaraldi, Mark Murphy, Flip Nunez, George Muribus and the late great Cal Tjader. I was like a kid in a candy store on this one…..

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Late night ramble with my first Crusader…..thanks Bobby.

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This one’s for my Uncle Larry. Be-bop and Roses.

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In my younger years when my dad would wake me up from a nap he would plop me down in front of Sesame Street. Little did I know that all those tunes I grew up singing and dancing to were laid down by bassist Bob Cranshaw.

“If Mickey set the groove, I laid the pocket.” BC

…he also spent a lot of time at Rudy Van Gelder’s studio.

Playin’ In the Yard,

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I was recently asked to speak in Jacob Campbell’s Anthropology class – “The Many Ways of Being Human.” It was an opportunity to talk to an ethnic group of students about what they need to do in order to carve out their place in Western Society. This was one of the better “trips” I have had recently on this Roller Coaster ride called life. Thanks to JC and all the dirt farmers out there.

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