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  • Castaways by date
    Ravi Abcarian
    24 Aug
    Nicolas Bearde
    19 Oct
    Dee Bell
    23 Mar
    Dave Bendigkeit
    06 Jul
    Steven Bernstein
    30 Mar
    Wil Blades
    25 May
    Terence Blanchard
    10 Aug
    Larry Coryell
    22 Jun
    William Dement
    14 Dec
    Pete Escovedo
    21 Dec
    Kenny G
    20 Apr
    Sunna Gunnlaugs
    29 Jun
    Lorca Hart
    16 Mar
      Hiromi
    06 Apr
    Veronica Klaus
    17 Aug
    Julian Lage
    27 Jul
    Hubert Laws
    24 Feb
    Delfeayo Marsalis
    12 Oct
    Roy McCurdy
    13 Apr
    Nika Rejto
    16 Nov
    Renee Rosnes
    26 Oct
    Poncho Sanchez
    09 Nov
    Judi Silvano
    13 Jul
    Lonnie Liston Smith
    02 Nov
    Tyshawn Sorey
    02 Mar
    Terell Stafford
    03 Aug
    Victoria Theodore
    07 Dec
    Emil Viklický
    15 Jun
    Cedar Walton
    27 Apr
    Peter Williams
    01 Jun
    Victor Wooten
    20 Jul
    Peter Zak
    08 Jun


    Most Recent Castaway - 2nd July, 2021
    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.