| Claudia Acuña
08 Jul Bruce Barth 12 Aug Dave Bass 06 May Ray Brown 25 Feb John Calloway 28 Oct Ndugu Chancler 29 Jul Rana Farhan 30 Sep Marque Gilmore 04 Nov Scott Hamilton 18 Feb Charles Hamilton 24 Jun | Jimmy Heath
22 Jul Dave LeFebvre 08 Apr Ivan Lins 02 Sep Bruno Louchouarn 21 Oct Joe Lovano 05 Aug George Mesterhazy 11 Mar Jason Moran 04 Mar Bodil Niska 01 Apr Jeff Oster 21 Jan Eddie Palmieri 02 Dec | Kat Parra
26 Aug Gene Perla 03 Jun Rudy Ramirez 29 Apr Putter Smith 10 Jun Rory Snyder 25 Mar Zan Stewart 19 Aug Keith Terry 18 Nov Kenny Washington 09 Dec Bruce Williamson 18 Mar Deanna Witkowski 01 Jul |
| 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" | |||