Jefferson Jay is a tsunami within the native music world.

The Ocean Seaside musician has written greater than 1,500 songs.

He challenged himself to publish three track movies a day, together with one unique, on YouTube for a complete 12 months in 2011 — and he repeated that feat once more in 2016!

He organized a free 24-hour live performance in 2008 — a round the clock marathon for which he coordinated almost 40 native bands, solo artists, DJs and particular performances. The next 12 months, he launched the recording as a two-DVD set.

“I love to do issues nobody’s accomplished earlier than,” he says. “I wish to push the boundaries.”

With that objective in thoughts, he created the San Diego Music Corridor of Fame in 2018. Its first induction ceremony included Grammy-winning artist Jason Mraz, hit songwriter Jack Tempchin, who had two songs on the Eagles’ Best Hits (1971-1975) album; Sue Palmer, often called the Queen of Boogie Woogie, and different native music VIPs.

Each fall since, with exception of pandemic-plagued 2020, six music giants with San Diego ties have been inducted into the native Music Corridor of Fame.

On Nov. 11 at 7:30 p.m., this Corridor of Fame steady will swell to 24 members as six 2022 honorees are inducted. The ceremony, on the Ocean Seaside Newbreak Church, contains nominee appearances, a multimedia present and several other dwell performances.

“I like to think about our occasion as a group occasion first and music occasion second,” Jay says. “It’s a celebration of our music and our tradition.”

This 12 months’s honorees are the late jazz trombonist Jimmy Cheatham and his musician spouse, Jeannie, 95; fiddling virtuoso Alex DePue, who was tragically killed in a automobile accident in Mexico this previous January; Rock & Roll Corridor of Famer Chris Hillman, an unique member of The Byrds; the Marine Band San Diego; Chula Vista-native live performance pianist Gustavo Romero; and longtime Level Loma Excessive College trainer Larry Zeiger, who has co-written and produced a mind-boggling 33 musicals.

Yearly, Jay focuses at the very least one induction on a distinct phase of the native music group. Final 12 months, inductees included the Deering household, which for 4 a long time has produced banjos revered within the trade, together with the co-founders of Taylor Guitars, the instrument of alternative of a number of high musicians.

This 12 months, as a result of the occasion falls on Veterans Day, honorees embody the native Marine Band. Practically one century previous, the band books as many as 350 performances nationwide annually.

The emphasis this fall is also on educators, as personified by Zeiger, whose teaching has launched musical careers of quite a few San Diego youth. Jimmy Cheatham additionally was an teacher who led UC San Diego jazz packages till he retired in 2005. Gustavo Romero is presently a professor on the College of North Texas Faculty of Music.

Performers on Nov. 11 embody Gustavo Romero, Jeff Berkley & The Banned, Sue Palmer & Liz Ajuzie, Jamie Shadowlight, Larry Zeiger, Rob Deez and Gato Papacitos.

A New Jersey native, Jay moved to San Diego in 2000 to pursue his grasp’s diploma in historical past at San Diego State.

“Very early on, I met lots of people doing charity-related work in positive arts and the visible arts,” he says. “I used to be moved by the best way all of them supported one another and the best way patrons supported the humanities.”

Jay vowed to duplicate that camaraderie within the music world, each to assist elevate up musicians and to domesticate appreciation for music all through the San Diego group.

So enthralled was he by the idea that he wrote his historical past thesis in 2008 on the La Jolla Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, which began because the La Jolla Studying Membership in 1894. The Athenaeum is a nonprofit membership library that includes reveals, dwell concert events and artwork courses with its treasure-trove of books and reference supplies.

Ever since, he has collaborated with the Athenaeum on producing an Acoustic Evenings live performance collection there every fall. Jay and one among his Jefferson Jay and the Diggers band members have been among the many performers at its Oct. 21 live performance.

“All my initiatives are tied to the thought of individuals lifting one another up,” Jay advised U-T music critic George Varga in 2009.

With that philosophy in thoughts, he named his firm, The Good Vibe (https://thegoodvibe.com).

Presently he’s producing an animated TV collection starring actors with disabilities and neurological variations, akin to ADHD, Asperger syndrome and autism spectrum problems.

He calls this 24-episode undertaking “The Hunt for the Vacation Spirit” and is in search of monetary backers to deliver it to viewers.

Whereas Jay is the face and the palms behind the S.D. Music Corridor of Fame, many different unbiased contractors, donors, companions and volunteers play a serving to position. It’s a giant manufacturing to handle, however he’s a veteran, having hosted open mic nights for 17 years on the town earlier than the pandemic. “I’m used to exhibits with plenty of shifting components,” he says.

Along with inductees, a Daybreak Metal Award is offered to somebody within the music group who exhibits power within the face of adversity. This 12 months, it goes to Aria Noelle Curzon-DePue, the widow of Alex DePue (they married solely months earlier than his loss of life), who will play violin on the occasion.

For Jay, the Music Corridor of Fame supplies a spot to share San Diego’s legendary artists below one marquee. Whereas there isn’t any bodily location but, the biographies, images and analysis exist on the Corridor of Fame web site.

Admittedly, coordinating and internet hosting the annual occasion is a ton of labor. “However I don’t intend to bow out,” vows Jay, 48. “So long as there may be music in San Diego, there needs to be a Music Corridor of Fame.”