Tamm E. Hunt

Tamm E. Hunt continues to be an important push in the Baltimore jazz community, both like a vocalist and behind the moments. She actually is the niece of jazz and blues vocalist Hannah Sylvester and Benny Clark (who possessed a record business), as well as the girl of K.D. Searcy, a faucet dancer who danced in the Apollo Theatre with Tip Touch & Feet. She was raised around music and, after hearing Dakota Staton’s “The Past due Late Display,” she understood in early stages that she wished to sing jazz. Even though, Hunt began singing other varieties of music. In her years as a child she sang with a number of R&B girl organizations. She got some commercial achievement in the first ’80s performing disco, but turned to jazz. Influenced by Betty Carter, Sarah Vaughan, and pianist Dorothy Donegan, Hunt sang with such notables as altoist Gary Bartz, tenor saxophonist Clifford Jordan, pianists Ronnie Matthews and Larry Willis, bassist Buster Williams, and drummer T.S. Monk, amongst others. She’s performed through the entire U.S. furthermore to European countries, Canada, and Japan. Hunt offers thus far documented one Compact disc, Live @ Birdland, on her behalf New Jazz Viewers label. Hunt also founded the Harlem Jazz Basis, and has created jazz education applications including Adopt a youngster 4 Jazz and Jazz 4 the Newbie. She starred and stated in the off-Broadway display Billie Vacation: The Tale, and made an appearance in a brief dramatic film with Gary Bartz known as A Jazz Tale. In Baltimore, she’s been the professional/artistic director from the Maryland Middle for the Preservation of Jazz & Blues.