The concert will feature vocalist, recording artist, producer, Jazz educator, actress, TV host and songwriter TAMM E HUNT at the EUBIE BLAKE NATIONAL JAZZ INSTITUTE. In Februay, Hunt defied one of the worst snow storms in the history of Baltimore, playing to a standing room only crowd at Ronald Scott's Caton Castle. At that venue, which was picked as Baltimore's best new Jazz club by the City Paper, Hunt performed with Gary Bartz, Curtis Lundy, Donald Smith and George Gray,Jr. Now she will be proving that Winter always turns to Spring by bringing to the stage with her master pianist KATHY FARMER, drummer extraordinaire STEVE WILLIAMS (who works with Shirley Horn), a bassist to be announced and trumpeter/flugel horn player MAC GOLLEHON with whom Hunt has co written and recorded on the Half Note label.
The evening will be hosted by Morgan State University radio personality, WEAA's GARY “PRIMETIME" ELLERBE. Her special guests are pianist CHICO JOHNSON, bassist VICTORIA HOPWOOD and drummer “PEANUT" SAUNDERLIN.
Hunt has an upcoming CD, TAMM E HUNT LIVE @ BIRDLAND, which features such luminaries as Gary Bartz, pianist Eric Reed and Mac Gollehon. For that project she shares the producing duties with Baltimore guitarist/entreprenuer Eddie Harrison, drummer TS Monk,the late Nellie Monk (Mrs Thelonious Monk) and Cassandra Jamison. The set will be released on her New Jazz Audience label and can be purchased at www.tammehunt.com.
A native New Yorker, Hunt was raised in Baltimore and has returned to the city to give back to the community her experiences and expertise. A vibrant and talented artist, Hunt was partially educated in the Baltimore City Public School system and recently relocated to Charm City from New York City where she has been a mainstay in the popular Jazz scene and theatre world.
As a singer and entertainer, TAMM E HUNT has worked for the past two decades with some of the industry's finest musicans. A list of her associations include pianist Lafayette Harris, saxophonists Antonio Hart and Gary Bartz, the legendary trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, Wynton Marsalis, bassists Walter Booker and Buster Williams, pianist Dorothy Donegan and singer Teri Thornton among many others.
Jazz educator/lecturer Hunt has tlaked about the history of Jazz in Harlem and in America at the campuses of the NYU graduate school, The City College of New York along with many other venues. She founded and directed Harlem Jazz Foundation and Jazz For the Beginner, classroom programs for young people co- produced with the City College of New York and Knit Media's Jazz school, supported by MCI, Bell Atlantic and the former superintendent of NYC high schools Pat Black. The program serves one hundred and twenty high school students from three high schools in New York City.
In a strategic partnership with THE INSTITUTE FOR JUVENILE JUSTICE, a program founded by Roderick Willis, Esq, Sheila Blue and Alice Torriente, Hunt brings the The ADOPT A KID 4 JAZZ (a music/business education laboratory for transformation for talented youth @ risk) to Baltimore, offering the country
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