| Ravi Abcarian
24 Aug Nicolas Bearde 19 Oct Dee Bell 23 Mar Dave Bendigkeit 06 Jul Steven Bernstein 30 Mar Wil Blades 25 May Terence Blanchard 10 Aug Larry Coryell 22 Jun William Dement 14 Dec Pete Escovedo 21 Dec Kenny G 20 Apr | Sunna Gunnlaugs
29 Jun Lorca Hart 16 Mar Hiromi 06 Apr Veronica Klaus 17 Aug Julian Lage 27 Jul Hubert Laws 24 Feb Delfeayo Marsalis 12 Oct Roy McCurdy 13 Apr Nika Rejto 16 Nov Renee Rosnes 26 Oct Poncho Sanchez 09 Nov | Judi Silvano
13 Jul Lonnie Liston Smith 02 Nov Tyshawn Sorey 02 Mar Terell Stafford 03 Aug Victoria Theodore 07 Dec Emil Viklický 15 Jun Cedar Walton 27 Apr Peter Williams 01 Jun Victor Wooten 20 Jul Peter Zak 08 Jun |
| 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 | |||