Tammy Lynne Hall

Tammy Lynne Hall (* 1961 in Dallas ) is an American jazz musician ( piano , organ , composition ).

Live and act

Hall grew up with her grandparents after her mother, a concert pianist, died very early. She began playing the piano at the age of four and was soon taking classical piano lessons. As a child she played the piano and organ in the Mount Moriah Missionary Baptist Church and in the junior choir of her elementary school. She received a scholarship to the local college preparatory school for girls, the Hockaday School for Girls , where she continued her classical piano studies, but also began jazz improvisation. From 1979 she attended Mills College for two years and then devoted herself full-time to music. In the 1980s she moved to Brussels and played in clubs and festivals across Europe for two years. Noah Howard used her for the recording of his album Migration (1980), for which she also composed.

Back in the USA, she became the companion of singers like Etta Jones , Ernestine Anderson , Melba Moore , Darlene Love , Linda Tillery , Queen Esther Marrow , Mary Wilson and Denise Perrier in the Bay Area , with whom she recorded an album. She has also appeared with the musicians Houston Person , David Fathead Newman , Regina Carter , Mads Tolling , Angela Wellman , Marcus Shelby , the Montclair Women's Big Band and with Marian McPartland in the NPR show Piano Jazz .

In 2006 Hall released her first quartet album Blue Divine with her own compositions. The album was shortlisted for possible Grammy nominations in two categories (Best Jazz Instrumental Album and Best Jazz Instrumental Solo). This was followed by the albums Rejuve and (with their quintet) Blue Soul .

In 2015 Hall conducted the national orchestras of Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan. Halls Peace-tet performed at the 2018 Monterey Jazz Festival . In the same year she performed with Laurie Anderson in the SFJazz Miner Auditorium and received the award for best musical direction from the Bay Area Theater Critics Circle for her work on Pamela Rose's show Blues Is a Woman .

She has been a teacher and visiting professor at Stanford University , California Jazz Conservatory, Oakland Public Conservatory & Black Girls Play, Oakland School of the Arts, Jazz Camp West, Lafayette Summer Music Camps, Marin Country Day School, and the California Jazz Conservatory.

Web links

• Web presence
• Guest at Piano Jazz (NPR, 2007)
• Portrait (Piedmont Piano Company)
• Tammy Lynne Hall at Discogs (English)