| Claudia Acuña
08 Jul Bruce Barth 12 Aug Dave Bass 06 May Ray Brown 25 Feb John Calloway 28 Oct Ndugu Chancler 29 Jul Rana Farhan 30 Sep Marque Gilmore 04 Nov Scott Hamilton 18 Feb Charles Hamilton 24 Jun | Jimmy Heath
22 Jul Dave LeFebvre 08 Apr Ivan Lins 02 Sep Bruno Louchouarn 21 Oct Joe Lovano 05 Aug George Mesterhazy 11 Mar Jason Moran 04 Mar Bodil Niska 01 Apr Jeff Oster 21 Jan Eddie Palmieri 02 Dec | Kat Parra
26 Aug Gene Perla 03 Jun Rudy Ramirez 29 Apr Putter Smith 10 Jun Rory Snyder 25 Mar Zan Stewart 19 Aug Keith Terry 18 Nov Kenny Washington 09 Dec Bruce Williamson 18 Mar Deanna Witkowski 01 Jul |
| Stacey Hoffman (2019) | |
|---|---|
(Photo by Rosaura Studios) | Stacey Hoffman has nurtured the Bay Area music scene for decades. It's impossible to talk about her and not to concentrate on Living Jazz, of which she's executive director. And who would want to?
Living Jazz got its start in 1984 in a—successful!—attempt to rescue a faltering summer music camp for teens and adults. Relocated to La Honda, Jazz Camp West is now a week-long program of music, dance and vocals for that same audience of teens and adults, and has developed into one of the world’s leading jazz immersion programs, with hundreds of participants coached by dozens of all-star jazz faculty. Under Stacey's direction, Living Jazz has spun off successful offspring. Over 30 years ago, they launched the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir, which became independent five years later; and another few years later, the Oakland Jazz Choir followed the same path. Stacey's fount of projects seems inexhaustible. In 2002, Living Jazz launched "In the Name of Love", the annual musical tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. And every few years there's another new progeny: recent ones include Jam Camp West for 5th-10th graders from diverse cultural and economic backgrounds, and Jazz Search West, an annual talent search for pre-professional vocalists and instrumentalists. With all these balls to juggle, it's no surprise that Stacey no longer has time (or perhaps even the inclination) to pursue older interests such as guitar or piano or dance or painting or ceramics. Somehow, though, she does manage to squeeze in her "day job" as a psychotherapist with a small private practice. |
| Pick | Artist | Album | Song | Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| # 1 | Marcus Shelby | Soul of the Movement | Take My Hand, Precious Lord | Porto Franco |
| # 2 | Donny Hathaway | A Donny Hathaway Collection | A Song for You | Atlantic |
| # 3 | Omar Sosa and Sekou Keita | Transparent Water | Fatiliku | Otá |
| # 4 | Otis Redding | Platinum Collection | Try a Little Tenderness | Warner |
| # 5 | Nina Simone | Little Girl Blue | Little Girl Blue | Bethlehem |
| # 6 | Chet Baker | This Is Jazz #2 | Autumn Leaves | Columbia |
| # 7 | Kurt Elling | This Time It's Love | My Foolish Heart | Blue Note |
| # 8 | Joni Mitchell | Both Sides Now | A Case of You | Reprise |
| # 9 | Aretha Franklin | 20 Greatest Hits | A Natural Woman | Atlantic |
| Book | Michelle Obama, "Becoming" | |||
| Luxury Item | Peet's coffee and a coffee maker | |||