Gilad Atzmon
12 Jun Carolyn Brandy 19 Jun Stuart Brinin 16 Oct Ralph Carney 04 Sep India Cooke 20 Feb Ronald Davis 23 Oct Mark Feldman 27 Mar Herb Gibson 06 Mar Nancy Gilliland 29 May | Jon Hendricks
16 Jan Laurence Hobgood 10 Jul Bill Horvitz 13 Nov Nat Johnson 01 May Tom Madden 13 Mar Charlie McCarthy 06 Nov Don Neely 25 Sep Nathan Oliveira 28 Aug Ed Reed 24 Jul | Walter Savage
14 Aug Mike Stern 12 Dec Adam Theis 21 Aug Mads Tolling 17 Apr Hristo Vitchev 22 May Paul van Wageningen 10 Apr Nancy Wright 20 Nov Jim Zimmerman 06 Feb |
Claire Greene (2021) | |
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![]() | 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 |
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# 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. |