| Betto Arcos
10 Aug Tiffany Austin 29 Jun Opie Bellas 07 Dec Amy Cervini 13 Jul George Cotsirilos 09 Feb Steve Dalachinsky 13 Apr Roberta Donnay 12 Oct Joel Dorham 16 Nov | Kait Dunton
25 May Nick Finzer 20 Apr Sameer Gupta 17 Aug Ed Klitsch 05 Jan Chad Lefkowitz-Brown 30 Nov Will Magid 09 Nov Sarah McKenzie 03 Aug Arianna Neikrug 24 Aug | Glen Pearson
14 Dec Terry Robb 19 Oct Nick Rossi 28 Sep Lynn Speakman 27 Jul Andy Stein 30 Mar Tate Swindell 27 Apr |
| 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. | |||