| Lincoln Adler
29 Aug Laurie Antonioli 29 Feb Jeff Ballard 08 Aug David Belove 20 Jun Ken Berman 15 Aug Lee Bloom 14 Mar Maxwell Chandler 05 Dec Jeff Cressman 04 Jan Sylvia Cuenca 01 Aug | Terry Disley
02 May Taylor Eigsti 18 Jan Kathleen Grace 21 Nov Craig Handy 18 Apr Tootie Heath 25 Jul John Lee 17 Oct Seward McCain 24 Oct Myra Melford 04 Apr Brian Melvin 27 Jun | Debbie Poryes
19 Sep Ali Ryerson 08 Feb Antonio Sanchez 14 Nov Jaz Sawyer 10 Oct Wally Schnalle 11 Apr Dred Scott 21 Mar Scott Sorkin 08 Nov Dayna Stephens 18 Jul Al Young 26 Sep |
| 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. | |||