| Robben Ford
17 Dec Alfredo Rodriguez 12 Nov Cleo Laine and Jacqui Dankworth 22 Oct George Wein 15 Oct Lee Brenkman 08 Oct Mark Winkler 03 Sep Doug Beavers 27 Aug Fred Frith 13 Aug Larry Grenadier 06 Aug | Victor Lin
30 Jul Charles McPherson 23 Jul Erik Jekabson 16 Jul Houston Person 02 Jul Chuck Bennett 25 Jun Rebecca Coupe Franks 28 May Loren Schoenberg 30 Apr Mike Vax 23 Apr Eddie Henderson 09 Apr | Babatunde Lea
19 Mar Dave Tidball 12 Mar Adam Shulman 05 Mar Laura Klein 26 Feb Frank Sumares 19 Feb Barbara Dane 15 Jan Lee Charlton 08 Jan |
| Tate Swindell (2018) | |
|---|---|
| Born and raised in California, Tate Swindell is a poet, archivist, photographer and record producer. His San Francisco-based label, Unrequited Records, has released recordings by Beat Generation icons Herbert Huncke, Harold Norse and Jack Micheline, as well as by underground folk legend David Dondero. He has recorded and interviewed literary giants such as Amiri Baraka, Diane di Prima, Andrei Codrescu and Ruth Weiss.
Tate has traveled the globe, producing and participating in poetry-related events at locations such as The Nuyorican Poets Café in Manhattan, Beyond Baroque in Venice, California, and locally at City Lights Books, the Beat Museum, and Beckett Books & Records, which he rates as the best bookstore in the city for poetry and jazz. He is currently editing a collected book of poems by one of the greatest poets, Bob Kaufman, and as part of his research on this book he became the first person to gain access to the Bob Kaufman archives at the Sorbonne University in Paris. Tate’s own collections of writings and photos include the titles "Palpitations", "The Creation of Deadlines", and the latest, "Ghost Eclipse" due out on Two-Way Mirror Press later this year. |
| Pick | Artist | Album | Song | Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| # 1 | John Coltrane | A Love Supreme | Resolution | Impulse |
| # 2 | George T. Johnson | Harlem of My Childhood | Easter on Adeline | Blackside |
| # 3 | Wardell Gray | Wardell Gray Memorial, Vol. 2 | Jackie | OJC |
| # 4 | Art Pepper | The Trip | Sweet Love of Mine | OJC |
| # 5 | Louis Jordan | All Hits! | Beans and Cornbread | Golden Stars |
| # 6 | David Murray Featuring Saul Williams | Blues for Memo | A Mirror of Youth | Motéma |
| # 7 | Blood Orange | Freetown Sound | Best to You | Domino |
| # 8 | Nikki Giovanni | Truth Is on Its Way | Ego-Trippin' | Right-On Records |
| # 9 | David Dondero | The Transient | Stars Are My Chandelier | Future Farmer |
| # 10 | Eric Mingus | Um ... Er ... Uh | Grey ... Was Never So Color ... Ful ... (for Jack Micheline) | Some Records |
| # 11 | Nina Simone | Nina Simone at the Village Gate | Zungo | Ghent |
| Book | Bob Kaufman, "Solitudes Crowded by Loneliness" | |||
| Luxury Item | "My magnifying glass" | |||