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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....
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 dr…
My guest today is a rarified drummer that can vacillate effortlessly between the studio and a live setting.
It's not your typical live musical setting. Often there are beatniks and lifers who come to…
Badass jazz and funk drummer breaking it down....
In the late sixties and early seventies many of the cats who were playing improvisational music were trying to add on to the musical thesaurus that was John Coltrane.
A spinning wheel of scales and r…
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 preac…
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 …
Songs of the Unsung. RIP Brent. Love Always, JF
Legendary studio bassist talks about his musical life.
Esperanza Spalding, Gil Evans, Pat Metheny, Pat Martino, Jaco Pastorius
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The upright bass. An instrument that elicits sounds large, round and phat. It could be in some messianic run of scales that culminate in a burning straight ahead tune or out in the ethos Dancing on t…
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 fo…
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 collabor…
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 i…
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 …
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 th…
"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 …