| Gilad Atzmon
12 Jun Carolyn Brandy 19 Jun Stuart Brinin 16 Oct Ralph Carney 04 Sep India Cooke 20 Feb Ronald Davis 23 Oct Mark Feldman 27 Mar Herb Gibson 06 Mar Nancy Gilliland 29 May | Jon Hendricks
16 Jan Laurence Hobgood 10 Jul Bill Horvitz 13 Nov Nat Johnson 01 May Tom Madden 13 Mar Charlie McCarthy 06 Nov Don Neely 25 Sep Nathan Oliveira 28 Aug Ed Reed 24 Jul | Walter Savage
14 Aug Mike Stern 12 Dec Adam Theis 21 Aug Mads Tolling 17 Apr Hristo Vitchev 22 May Paul van Wageningen 10 Apr Nancy Wright 20 Nov Jim Zimmerman 06 Feb |
| Claudia Villela (2019) | |
|---|---|
(Photo by Aloizio Jordao) | Pianist, singer, composer and arranger Claudia Villela comes to the Bay Area from her native Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Claudia's voice is an incredibly flexible instrument, and she sings with an achingly pure tone. She has a great imagination to accompany it, too, choosing from her sonic palate of brass instruments, various bird calls, rushing water and rustling wind. Claudia has worked with Toots Thielmans, Michael Brecker, Toninho Horta, Kenny Werner, Romero Lubambo, and many others. Shortly before Christmas 2017, just as Claudia was about to return from a vacation back home, an electrical fire swept through her family's Rio apartment, destroying her passport, computer, piano, and family mementos. She was lucky to survive, escaping with burns to her hands and feet, and suffering smoke inhalation. But, thankfully, she still had her voice, and she was back performing, and healing—both inside and out—by the end of the following month. Claudia's most release is a retrospective of live dates, "Encantada Live". |
| Pick | Artist | Album | Song | Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| # 1 | Chick Corea | Mad Hatter | The Woods | Polydor |
| # 2 | Milton Nascimento and Lô Borges | Clube da Esquina | Cais | World Pacific |
| # 3 | Milton Nascimento | Anima | Evocação das Montanhas | Polygram |
| # 4 | Bill Evans and Toots Thielemans | Affinity | I Do It for Your Love | Warner Bros |
| # 5 | Elis Regina and Antonio Carlos Jobim | Elis & Tom | Só Tinha de Ser Com Você | Verve |
| # 6 | Milton Nascimento | A Barca dos Amantes | Amor de Indio | Verve |
| # 7 | Antonio Carlos Jobim | Symphonic Jobim | Matita Palê | Adventure Music |
| # 8 | Egberto Gismonti Trio | ZigZag | Forrobodó | ECM |
| Book | The "I Ching" | |||
| Luxury Item | "A house with a studio and a Bösendorfer." | |||