Tammy McCann: Merry Christmas, Baby at Dizzy's Club, December 20

Santa Claus is coming to town and he’s bringing the gift of Tammy McCann: Merry Christmas, Baby, to Dizzy’s Club at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Broadway at 60th Street, Manhattan, on Wednesday, December 20, 7:30 and 9:30 pm. Joining Tammy McCann, the dynamic Chicago jazz and gospel vocalist, for the Christmas concert will be Arcoiris Sandoval, piano; John Sutton, bass; Jay Sawyer, drums; and Craig Bailey, alto sax.

Hear Holiday favorites, including some new swinging arrangements, of “The Christmas Song,” “Santa Baby,” “Snowbound,” “Let It Snow,” “A Child Is Born, ”Do You Hear What I Hear?,” “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas,” “My Favorite Things,” “You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch” and the concert theme song “Merry Christmas, Baby.”

About Tammy McCann

In the three decades she’s been on the scene, no one has moved so effortlessly and ebulliently from the secular to the sacred world than the Mississippi-born, Chicago native Tammy McCann. Her brilliant blend of gospel, jazz and blues reigns supreme on her latest CD Do I Move You? (Io Canto Music, LLC), which was released earlier this year.

McCann sang in church and was a devotee of Mahalia Jackson. She is a classically-trained vocalist and graduate of Chicago’s Kenwood Academy High School, and attended Virginia Union University, where she heard Thelonious Monk. McCann moved back to Chicago, and was singing locally, when jazz masters Von and George Freeman took her under their wing. McCann has worked with many jazz stars including Dee Dee Bridgewater, Ray Charles, Ramsey Lewis and Laurence Hobgood.

McCann’s previous recordings include You Like (with Wondabrass, 1996), Praise (with The Voices of Glory, 1999) Classic (2007), Never Let Me Go ( 2010), Love Stories (2014) and Southside Folk Tales (2021). She performed Yes Mahalia!, her tribute to Mahalia Jackson in Jazzmobile’s Summerfest 2021 at Marcus Garvey Park (formerly Mt. Morris Park) where Jackson performed at the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, the subject in the award-winning, Questlove-directed documentary, Summer of Soul. She also performed at Jazzmobile’s Great Jazz on the Great Hill series in Central Park in 2022.

McCann has performed at many prestigious jazz venues, including Jazz at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Birdland and the Hyde Park Jazz Festival. A multiple recipient of Chicago Tribune’s Best Jazz Vocal Performance citation, she was named Chicagoan of the Year in Jazz in 2020 by the same newspaper. Currently, McCann is Artist-in-Residence for the Music Institute of Chicago in Evanston, a Mentor for Women in Jazz Organization (WIJO) and a Board Member for African American Museum of Performing Arts (AAMPA) in Chicago.

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