MAR 20-23 | Jazz In The City
Mar 22 - Mar 23, 2025
Joe Henderson Lab
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Original show description below.
An accomplished solo artist and bandleader, Bay Area-based pianist, organist, and composer Tammy Hall performs a program of standards and originals with her rock-solid trio.
A native of Dallas, Hall began her life with the piano at age four, honing her skills in the church and later in studies at Oakland’s Mills College before setting out on a professional career that would find her warm and intuitive mix of jazz, classical, and gospel approaches in great demand.
An intensive period of club performances and band building while living in Belgium for two years helped prepare Hall for her life as a collaborator and leader, and upon her return, she built a career in collaboration with a roster of major artists including Mary Wilson, Kim Nalley, Marcus Shelby, Houston Person, David “Fathead” Newman, Pamela Rose, Queen Esther Marrow, Ernestine Anderson, Barbara Dane, Holly Near, and Regina Carter, among dozens of others. She was a featured guest on NPR’s Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland, and is a dedicated educator, working extensively with SFJAZZ’s education department as well as the SFUSD, Stanford Jazz Workshop, the Musically Minded Academy, and more. She has led or co-led a number of albums under her name including her latest, Blue Soul.
“Possessing an uncluttered, telegraphic style marked by her classical training and deep roots in gospel, Hall combines elegance and grit” (JazzTimes). The Bay Area-based pianist, organist, and composer performs a program of standards and originals with her rock-solid trio.
Her playing is warm and persuasive and a listener's delight
Marian McPartland
Her playing is warm and persuasive and a listener's delight
Marian McPartland
Personnel
Tammy Hall piano
Kevin Goldberg bass
Jason Lewis drums
Possessing an uncluttered, telegraphic style marked by her classical training and deep roots in gospel, Hall combines elegance and grit.
JazzTimes
Personnel
Tammy Hall piano
Kevin Goldberg bass
Jason Lewis drums
Possessing an uncluttered, telegraphic style marked by her classical training and deep roots in gospel, Hall combines elegance and grit.
JazzTimes
Watch & Listen
Tammy L. Hall
For Miss Jones
Tammy L. Hall
Sermon in Blue
Tammy L. Hall
For Miss Jones
Tammy L. Hall
Sermon in Blue
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