| Melissa Aldana
11 Mar Ron E. Beck 29 Apr Pascal Bokar 07 Oct Shanna Carlson 18 Mar Sara Caswell 25 Mar Carlos D'l Puerto 22 Jul Kellye Gray 15 Jul David Hart 04 Nov Bruce Jenkins 09 Dec Ellen Johnson 17 Jun Steffen Kuehn 02 Dec | Paul McCandless
08 Jul Allison Miller 15 Apr Melissa Morgan 29 Jul Linda Oh 05 Aug Dafnis Prieto 24 Jun Jim Pugh 30 Sep Fred Randolph 05 Feb Harvie S 03 Jun Jake Shapiro 10 Jun Marcus Shelby 15 Jan Bria Skonberg 04 Mar | Paul Smith
16 Dec Mark Soskin 20 May Leslie Stoval 19 Aug John Stowell 08 Apr Toots Thielemans 02 Sep Roseanna Vitro 26 Feb Paul VornHagen 14 Oct Don Was 12 Aug Danielle Wertz 27 May Howard Wiley 28 Oct |
| 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. | |||