{"id":3368,"date":"2022-09-06T03:46:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T03:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/?p=3368"},"modified":"2022-09-13T04:39:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T04:39:39","slug":"tammy-lynn-hall-grammy-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/06\/tammy-lynn-hall-grammy-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Tammy Lynn Hall, Grammy Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tammy Lynne Hall, recent Grammy winner, was one of the featured musicians on an album our host Karen Lile produced called \u201cTwo Weeks Inside Studio D\u201d recorded at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley before it closed.  Sail Sport Talk includes short quotes from this album in our show, and we thought we would feature Tammy Hall, after her recent Grammy award as a musician on the Best Children\u2019s Music Album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tammy has traveled and performed extensively in Japan, Europe and Mexico, including a 30-city tour with Queen Esther Marrow and the Harlem Gospel Singers throughout Germany, Switzerland and Austria.\u00a0 Other venues and festivals of note include Kennedy Center (Mary Lou Williams Jazz Festival), Dizzy\u2019s and the Rose Room at Jazz At Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Sala Filharmonica (Trento, ITALY), Herbst Theatre, The Freight &amp; Salvage Coffeehouse, Monterey Jazz Festival, San Jose Jazz Festival, SFJazz Center, Yoshi\u2019s Oakland and San Francisco and Kuumbwa Jazz in Santa Cruz, CA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"(Audio 180) Sail Sport Talk with Karen Lile and Rick Tittle: Sir Robin Knox Johnston, Tammy Lynn Hall\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/747158557?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tammy began playing the piano at age four, in Dallas, Texas, where she was raised by two grandmothers, a grandfather and numerous aunts and uncles. Her earliest memories of the piano were of climbing onto the piano bench and pick out the notes to tunes she heard either on the radio, record player or something the choir sang at church. Later, Tammy became the pianist not just for the Junior Choir at her home church but also the pianist and organist for her godfather\u2019s church in Terrell, TX, some 40 miles away and she was sometimes the rehearsal accompanist for her school choir from sixth grade at Pearl C. Anderson Junior High to her senior year at the Hockaday School.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It became evident that Music had chosen Tammy to walk it\u2019s path. Giving full support for this journey were Tammy\u2019s two grandmothers, who pooled their resources to make sure she had access to private lessons from age 8 to 18. Tammy participated in juried recitals, resulting in her winning several awards and honorable recognition in regional and national recitals and competitions. Because of her talent and impeccable academic record, Tammy was encouraged to apply and was accepted to the Hockaday School, where she attended on an academic and musical scholarship, which also led to her attending the prestigious and progressive Mills College in Oakland, CA from 1979 to 1981. Tammy\u2019s grandfather also contributed to her musical journey by showing films of the greats Fats Waller, Dorothy Donegan, Hazel Scott, Duke Ellington and Count Basie; he was one of the first Black projectionists in the country and regularly showed films in his home and at public school auditoriums and churches for the community. These films along with the music she heard on the radio, at church, and the r&amp;b, soul and pop records of the time, even the incidental and theme music she heard on television, all influenced Tammy\u2019s playing. These early experiences would form the triad of Tammy\u2019s core sound: a fusion of Jazz, Gospel and Classical.\u00a0<br><br>In pursuit of developing her own voice and the experiences of a \u2018Jazz\u2019 life, Tammy left Mills College and gained more improvisational and accompanying experience sitting in with local bands in the Bay Area when a visit to Brussels turned into a 2 year stay. \u00a0During this time Tammy along with saxophonist Dr. Josylyn Segal, formed the quintet Touche Differente (Different Touch), playing in venues and festivals including the Brussels Jazz Club and the North Sea Jazz Festival, Antwerp, France, Holland and Ibiza, as well as performing and recording with saxophonist Noah Howard.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since returning to the Bay Area in 1989, Tammy has worked with vocalists Etta Jones, Kim Nalley, Holly Near, Linda Tillery(and the Cultural Heritage Choir), \u00a0Denise Perrier, Rhonda Benin, Tiffany Austin, Pamela Rose, Lisa Ferraro, Nicolas Bearde, Branice McKenzie, Ernestine Anderson, Kenny Washington, Melba Moore, Darlene Love, Miki Howard and Queen Esther Marrow, award-winning cabaret singer and actress Connie Champagne, the Supreme Mary Wilson, chanteuse and actress Debbie De Coudreaux, Amikaeyla Gaston, The Montclair Women\u2019s Big Band, Houston Person, \u00a0David \u2018Fathead Newman\u2019, violinists Regina Carter, Jeremy Cohen, Mads Tolling and Laurie Anderson, \u00a0orchestra leader and bassist Marcus Shelby, \u00a0drummer and band leader Allison Miller and guitarist Terrence Brewer. \u00a0<br><br>In 2017 Tammy received the award for Best Musical Direction from the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle, for her work in Pamela Rose\u2019s Blues Is A Woman. \u00a0This is one of several forays into musical theatre as Musical Director, including Sister Act:The Musical (Theatre Rhino), Chance (by Richard Isen), Quantum Janis (in development, also by Richard Isen) and The Boy From Oz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tammy\u2019s continued involvement with her musical and cultural community include working as an instructor\/lecturer (faculty)\/mentor, with a number of schools and non-profit arts organizations dedicated to making music and theatre accessible to under-funded inner city children and well known and funded organizations such as: Adventures In Music (AIM), under the auspices of the San Francisco Symphony in collaboration with the San Francisco Unified School District, The Handful Players Children\u2019s Theatre (San Francisco public schools\/Boys &amp; Girls Club of San Francisco), the Drew School (San Francisco), SFJazz Educational Outreach programs (Jazz In The Middle, Jazz In Session, Jazz and Freedom, Jazz and the American Experience), The Oakland Public Conservatory of Music, Alameda Unified School District, Stanford Jazz Workshop, Zellerbach Foundation, Yoshi\u2019s and the Jazz &amp; Heritage Center of San Francisco, Musically Minded Academy in Oakland, \u00a0the Narada Michael Walden Foundation, VIBO Music in San Francisco and the California Jazz Conservatory \u2013 and the world, through Broadway Bound, with workshops and performances in Uruguay, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan. \u00a0In 2019 Tammy was recognized by the San Francisco Chapter of the Human Rights Commission, as one of the recipients of its inaugural Pleasant-Leidesdorff San Francisco Community Stalwart Award.<br><br>Tammy has also accompanied the Porter College Gospel Choir at University of California, Santa Cruz and is a Co-Minister of Music at Heart And Soul Center of Light, in Oakland, CA. \u00a0She also is a guest artist\/Musical Inspiration for Centers for Spiritual Living throughout California and the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tammyhall.com\/\">https:\/\/www.tammyhall.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sail Sport Talk with Karen Lile is a syndicated audio and multi-media broadcast  on Sports Byline on 10 platforms to 82 million people in 168 countries through Sports Byline USA. Tune in locations are\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/live-broadcasts-podcasts\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong>  Co-Host is Rick Tittle of Titillating Sports.  This is the 180th episode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tammy Lynne Hall, recent Grammy winner, was one of the featured musicians on an album our host Karen Lile produced called \u201cTwo Weeks Inside Studio D\u201d recorded at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley before it closed. Sail Sport Talk includes short quotes from this album in our show, and we thought we would feature Tammy Hall, after her recent Grammy award as a musician on the Best Children\u2019s Music Album. Tammy has traveled and performed extensively in Japan, Europe and Mexico, including a 30-city tour with Queen Esther Marrow and the Harlem Gospel Singers throughout Germany, Switzerland and Austria.\u00a0 Other venues&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[534],"class_list":["post-3368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recognitions","tag-grammy"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sailsporttalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Tammy-Lynn-Hall.jpg?fit=1022%2C680&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3368"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3383,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions\/3383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}