Tammy Hall feat. the Texas Southern University Gospel Choir

Grammy-recognized pianist, composer, arranger, lecturer and musical director Tammy L. Hall began playing the piano at age four and is still devoted to that instrument, music, and its calling. After attending Mills College (Oakland, CA), Hall’s career now spans more than four decades, with no end in sight.

In pursuit of the creation and development and performance of Good Music, Tammy has worked with and accompanied numerous vocalists and instrumentalists, including: Etta Jones, Ernestine Anderson, Melba Moore, Darlene Love, Linda Tillery, Holly Near, Alive!, Barbara Dane, Loretta Devine, Kim Nalley, Ph.D., Tiffany Austin, Renée Wilson, Queen Esther Marrow, Rhiannon, Mary Wilson, Denise Perrier, and the vocal trio of Brown, Sturgis & Brown; saxophonists Houston Person and David “Fathead” Newman, Noah Howard, Kristen Strom, Tia Fuller, James Carter; guitarists Greg Skaff and Mimi Fox, Grammy award-winning violinists Regina Carter, Laurie Anderson, and Mads Tolling, “Harpist from the Hood” Destiny Muhammad, NEA Jazz Master and three-time Grammy award-winning drummer Terri Lyne Carrington, drummer/bandleader Allison Miller and bassist/bandleader Marcus Shelby, three-time Grammy award-winning Bassist Ruth Davies and Dr. Angela Davis, and most recently, has begun a new collaboration with the sublime classical vocalist, Leberta Lorál.

The Monterey Jazz Festival, celebrating its 65th anniversary in 2022 and for the first time in its history, presented a set devoted to spiritual and gospel music. Now presenting for the fifth year, Tammy has directed (and conducted) the Morgan State and Texas Southern University Gospel Choirs.

In 2021, Tammy was part of a team of musicians and songwriters in collaboration with Indian vocalist and composer, Falu Shah and their effort resulted in a Grammy win for Best Children’s Music Album, A Colorful World. 2021 was also the start of a current work in progress: Convergence, the story of an imagined meeting between musical giants Mary Lou Williams, Dorothy Donegan, Hazel Scott and Nina Simone, as well as an inaugural Artist-in-Residence honor conferred by the Healdsburg Jazz Festival and Marcus Shelby, Artistic Director.

In early August of 2020, Tammy worked with the late Maestro Michael Morgan on his collaboration with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra on the podcast San Francisco Symphony Currents: “Bay Area Blue Notes: Jazz As A State Of Mind.”