| 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 |
| 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. | |||