Day of the Podcasts! Airto on Jake Feinberg's show

They just keep coming. Here Jake Feinberg (of the great interviews with the likes of Mickey Roker, Richard Davis, Dick Berk, and much more) talks to Airto, who I've been listening to and thinking about a lot lately.

This would also be a good time to go back and read my excerpts of Airto's great 1983 Modern Drummer interview- I think I'll do that myself...

Dick Berk interview on the Jake Feinberg Show

Another great interview from the Jake Feinberg show, this time with Dick Berk of the prodigious ride cymbal. Dick was Billie Holliday's last drummer (after Jo Jones left the group), in a band that also featured Mal Waldron- I think my parents must have seen him with her at the time- and has played with just about everybody- particularly on the west coast- since then. He's also an actor, and had small parts in Raging Bull and New York, New York, and- somewhat strangely- was cast for the role of Sgt. Schulz' son in the canceled final season of Hogan's Heroes. He has been in Portland for years (minus some time in Vegas in the early '00's), and has been one of the anchoring cats for the city.

Drummer/jazz musician interview archive

Here's something well worth spending a few hours with- the podcast archive of the Jake Feinberg Show. Includes interviews with drummers Mickey Roker, and Ndugu Leon Chancler, as well as LA studio percussionist Emil Richards, and author Pete Magadini. Also Richard Davis, Pat Martino, Ali Akbar Khan, Gary Bartz, George Cables, Ernie Watts and George Duke.