KCSM Community Stations | San Mateo, California

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.

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.