STREAMING LIVE from Piedmont Piano Company
The Lost American Jazzbook
featuring Tammi Brown
Enjoy an elegant live-streamed evening of music with vocalist Tammi Brown and jazz pianist Dan Zemelman as they perform original music from their most recent album Taxonomy of Pleasure from the award winning Lost American Jazzbook project.
The Lost American Jazzbook ft Tammi Brown is just off the heels of winning the 2020 Independent Music Award for Best Jazz With Vocals album of the year!!
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The Lost American Jazzbook consists of original songs written in the style of America’s art song tradition - the jazz standard. The Jazzbook begins its 6th year with the extraordinary singer Tammi Brown. The newest album, Taxonomy of Pleasure, just won the 2020 IMA (Independent Music Awards) award for the Best Jazz With Vocals of the year!!! The album is inspired by everyone from Billy Strayhorn to Thelonious Monk to Antonio Carlos Jobim to Bob Dylan.
Jazzbook is the creation of Albert Greenberg, co-artistic director of Black Swan Arts & Media, a performing arts nonprofit based in Oakland, California. The prodigious San Francisco area based jazz pianist Dan Zemelman is co-writer, pianist, and musical director.
The debut concert was at the historic Maybeck Recital Hall in Berkeley, California, home to the legendary Concord Records piano jazz series. The artists included two-time Grammy winner Mads Tolling on violin and presidential scholar Zach Ostroff on bass.
The first album of The Lost American Jazzbook was recorded in 2014 at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, with producer Julie Wolf (Carly Simon, Indigo Girls, Ani DiFranco, Maceo Parker, Toshi Reagon). The album would go on to win Jazz Vocal Album of the Year from the 14th Independent Music Awards.
Dan Zemelman is a leader and innovator of jazz music in the San Francisco bay area scene. In 1998 Dan participated in the Kennedy Center’s prestigious Jazz Ambassadors program and toured India and Sri Lanka sponsored by the US State Department, representing America’s jazz tradition through teaching and performances. After moving from Chicago to the San Francisco area in 2001, Dan contributed to blues legend John Lee Hooker’s final studio album Face to Face and toured with daughter and blues vocalist, Zakiya Hooker. Dan studied under the tutilege of legendary jazz bassist Richard Davis at the University of Wisconsin and along with winning an award there as Best Jazz Artist in 1998. Dan is currently a successful bandleader, having performed at the acclaimed Yoshi's Jazz Club three times as a leader as well as at festivals such as the Angra Jazz Festival, the Fillmore Jazz Festival, the SF Jazz Festival, the San Jose Jazz Festival and many more. As an in-demand jazz pianist in the SF bay area, he plays regularly with top bay area jazz icons like Marcus Shelby and Adam Theis as well as his own trio featuring Zach Ostroff on bass and Alan Hall on drums. As a teacher and clinician, Dan has been on the faculty at several major jazz institutions including Stanford Jazz Institute, Jazzcamp West, The California Jazz Conservatory and Lafayette Jazz Camp.
Tammi Brown has performed with some of the most notable Music Industry Icons known to the world including renowned Music Producer, Quincy Jones, Stanley Jordan, Dr. Maya Angelou, Joan Baez, Spyro Gyra, and Eric Bibb to name a few. She is currently a vocalist in the two-time Grammy Award nominated Vocal Ensemble, The Cultural Heritage Choir led by the Legendary, Linda Tillery, and, most recently, selected to be the new ‘Voice’ for the award-winning ‘Lost American Jazzbook’ project. Drenched in the uplifting and sultry sounds of Gospel and Jazz music, Tammi Brown’s voice is filled with rich tones, elegant phrasing, and vocal versatility. She gracefully delivers a soulful, heartfelt rendition of songs in several genres that include Jazz, Blues, Gospel, Pop, and Rock. Tammi’s music journey has placed her on several stages in more than ten countries worldwide.