Chris Amberger
23 Jun Gerald Beckett 01 Sep Buzz Brooks 28 Apr Jarrett Cherner 16 Jun Kev Choice 30 Jun Anat Cohen 28 Jul Natalie Cressman 10 Feb Matt Eakle 15 Dec Hershey Felder 07 Apr Mitchell Feldman 18 Aug | Mike Galisatus
03 Nov Aaron Germain 06 Jan Robin Gregory 17 Feb Tamir Hendelman 13 Oct Kasey Knudsen 17 Mar Matthew Montfort 26 May Dan Montgomery 06 Oct Andrea Motis 21 Jul Ray Obiedo 10 Mar Jayn Pettingill 17 Nov | John Pizzarelli
25 Aug Sandi Poindexter 24 Mar Don Randi 20 Oct David Rogers 24 Feb Eric Whittington 29 Sep George Winston 04 Aug Lizz Wright 09 Jun Jason Yeager 02 Jun |
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. |