This is an excerpt from an article about the controversy...also had something to do with Yoshi's 10th Anniversary CD...

"As the controversy played out, it seemed that two invaluable and very different members of the Bay Area jazz scene were having a bitter public fallout. Both women profess there was no bad blood between them, and they are hardly strangers to each other. Last year Muscarella played a regular Monday night gig at Anna�^TMs with tenor saxophonist Mike Zilber throughout the spring, and Jazzschool teachers and alumni are featured regularly at the club. As their e-mail exchange made the rounds, the messages ended up with a subject line declaring �oeNo Blacks at the Festival,” though Muscarella hadn�^TMt finished booking the event yet, and she had indeed already engaged several black players for the event. But with outrage already stoked by the Yoshi�^TMs CD, concerns over the Jazzschool snowballed, and when Benin and de Leon appeared on Doug Edwards�^TM KPFA show �oeEar Thyme” on May 19, the discussion touched on the racial composition of the school�^TMs faculty and students, and the players presented in the weekend concert series.

• the whole article here...by Andy Gilbert, excellent jazz reporter.