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| Tamm E Hunt and Her Trio at Baltimore Museum of Art Jazz Singer Tamm E Hunt performing live at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Thursday, July 6, . Tamm E Hunt's performance is one of the highlights of the BMA's monthly Free First Thursday event. The museum invited the talented singer back for an encore after a stellar engagement during a Black History Month celebration in February, 2005. The event will also feature an exhibit of the works of African-American Realist Painter, Henry Ossawa Tanner 1859-1937 Tamm E Hunt has sung on stages from London to Ireland and back to Paris and Rome, she has recording credits on Sir Elton John's "Tumbleweed Connection" album, led the 80's CBS/Pavilion Disco group "Fantasy" all the way to number 1 on the Billboard charts for a whopping five weeks ."You're Too Late" was the hit. From Disco to R&B, Pop and Jazz, Tamm E Hunt has made a mark headlining a 15 city Japan tour with JVC records B3 player Toshihiko Kankawa and is the subject of a documentary produced by NHK, Japan's largest public television network. "Divaliscious", Tamm E Hunt has opened for the masters, Oscar Brown, Jr. and Heavy weight boxing champion, Muhammad Ali and co-stars with legendary saxophonist Gary Bartz and pianist, John Hicks in the Mevlut Akkaya film short "A Jazz Story" featured in Robert DeNiro's Tribecca Film Festival. A prolific lyricist and poet, Tamm E Hunt co wrote and performed the song "BeBop Revolution" with trumpeter Mac Gollehon on the Half Note CD "Tribute To Fats Navarro". A Renaissance woman, community minded Tamm E Hunt is no stranger to politics. The agile singer is an activist for the preservation and proliferation of Jazz. She says "The future of Jazz is in the hands of young people, as is the world. However, it is our duty to apprise the youth... of why it is their duty to not bastardize the music and why they must keep the African American Classical Music called Jazz fertile and alive. It is necessary that the truth about Jazz be told and kept alive. The truth about how it came to be." The Diplomat Hunt was cited in 2003 by the Maryland Senate as a Jazz Ambassador. She says "There is a penalty for leadership..." And with that the singer says "You have to do something. You have to make something happen...You have to implement change to ensure growth. The idea is to make a difference... And some times that creates the penalty...envy and jealousy." Walking her talk and showing them better then she can tell them, Tamm E Hunt has developed a program for young musicians called Adopt A Kid 4 Jazz and she has is writing a history of Baltimore's Jazz and expects that it will be published in the very near future. The activist Hunt says "I have been taking baby steps for the past three years with the Adopt A Kid 4 Jazz program. I am very sensitive about this project, because it has to do what no other program has done or does. While it is designed to keep the music alive and live, we will also be saving and changing lives. We will not only develop musicianship, but more importantly through the music, art and culture we can build character, compassion, humanism, pride and self esteem in young people who represent the future of the music and the world." The program currently has no funding and no home. Hunt says "This is not a dream. It's a vision and everything we need will manifest." The singer employs young musicians under the banner of Adopt A Kid 4 Jazz Youth Band. 2003, the Mayor of the City of Baltimore designated April 19th as "Tamm E Hunt Day" acknowledging her initiative toward the growth and development of Jazz in Baltimore. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Jazz News :: home page |