| 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 |
| Claire Greene (2021) | |
|---|---|
| Music has been a part of NYC-born Claire Greene’s life for as long as she can remember, starting with the discovery of the baby grand in the living room. The acoustic guitar followed, and then the flute, the latter while she was in the high school marching band, which she describes as “off-the-hook fun, even though the band leader was Buddy Rich-level crazy.”
Claire has no discography, no list of clubs she’s packed or arenas filled; no Grammy’s grace her shelf. Instead she does have many friends in radio. At KQED, 25 years ago she was producer/director of KQED's Fog City Radio with Ben Fong Torres, and today you can hear her on air from time to time, valiantly trying—and usually succeeding—to make membership drives tolerable, yet successful. At KCSM, our own friendship with Claire began in 1995 when she helped on our live broadcast from the Monterey Jazz Festival. Thereafter, for a decade or so, she produced and directed just about everything we did—MJF as mentioned, San Jose Fest broadcasts, KCSM’s own “Jazz on the Hill” festivals—and also directed Alisa Clancy’s 2005 one-woman on Dorothy Fields, “On the Sunny Side of the Street.” KCSM’s loss is KQED’s gain. |
| Pick | Artist | Album | Song | Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| # 1 | D'Jamin-Bartlett | A Little Night Music | The Miller's Son | Sony BMG |
| # 2 | Miles Davis | Kind of Blue | Blue in Green | Columbia |
| # 3 | Muddy Waters | Folk Singer | My Home Is in the Delta | Chess |
| # 4 | Junk | Junk | Late Night Radio | Faffco |
| # 5 | Monty Alexander | Live at the Montreux Festival | Satin Doll | MPS |
| # 6 | Bill Evans | I Will Say Goodbye | I Will Say Goodbye | Fantasy |
| # 7 | Brad Mehldau | The Art of the Trio, Vol. 1 | Blackbird | Warner Bros |
| # 8 | Ed Reed | The Song Is You | Here's to Life | Black Shorts |
| Book | Evelyn Waugh, "Brideshead Revisited" | |||
| Luxury Item | A little grass shack, with a hammock. | |||