PRESS

The San Francisco Bay Area’s own Lost American JazzBook featuring Tammi Brown wins top honors in the Jazz with Vocals Album of the Year category. 

The JazzBook’s exquisite new album, “Taxonomy of Pleasure” features original music written by Albert Greenberg and pianist, Dan Zemelman and performed by some of the finest musicians in the world of jazz, including the legendary guitarist Stanley Jordan, 2-time Grammy winning violinist Mads Tolling, and especially, the ‘voice’ of the JazzBook, the extraordinary vocalist, Tammi Brown.  

Mercury News - Best Jazz Albums of 2019:

Jazz is like Rain and Sandy in the Rain were BOTH finalists in The John Lennon International Songwriting award. That’s a lot of rain.

Radio Show feature: ‘Blue Dimensions’ (by WXPN of Philadelphia host Johnny Meister)

ARTICLES / QUOTES

Cover Story
Link: ‘Tammi Brown and All The Things We Are’ in Good Times Magazine
WALLACE BAINE, ARTS WRITER

Feature write-up
Link: ‘Finding The Lost American Jazzbook’ in the East Bay Express
ANDY GILBERT, JAZZ WRITER / CRITIC

“Simply the best jazz concert I’ve ever seen at Yoshi’s Jazz Club.” JIM CALLAHAN, CURATOR, PIEDMONT PIANO JAZZ CONCERT SERIES

“Rare is the album that reminds me of the stay-up-at-night-joy of listening to music. This gem of a production featuring Tammi Brown had me not only thoroughly entertained but also intrigued to learn more about the “American art song,” as Albert Greenberg puts it. He conceived of the JazzBook and produced this stunning album.” KABIR SEHGAL, MULTI-GRAMMY AWARD-WINNING PRODUCER, AUTHOR AND ARTIST

“The music is creative and timeless. It is elegant and eloquent in how it inhabits the musical landscape. A fresh addition to the American Songbook. Truly original and beautifully done.”
JEFFREY WOOD, STUDIO DIRECTOR, FANTASY STUDIOS

“As the largest independent publisher in the world, we know original music when we hear it.  That’s ‘The Lost American JazzBook’.  No one else is doing this—writing NEW songs that sound like the standards we love.  It’s a truly unique take on what makes the American Songbook great.”
CRAIG CURRIER, VICE PRESIDENT / DIRECTOR OF ADVERTISING MARKETS, PEERMUSIC - NORTH AMERICA

BIO

The award-winning LOST AMERICAN JAZZBOOK has joined forces with Tammi Brown in producing an extraordinary new CD of original music, Taxonomy of Pleasure.  The music spans styles from Thelonious Monk to Antonio Carlos Jobim.

Jim Callahan of the acclaimed Piedmont Piano jazz concert series said of the CD release concert, “Simply the best jazz concert I’ve ever seen at Yoshi’s Jazz Club.”

Volume I of the JazzBook won “Jazz Vocal Album of the Year” from the 14th Independent Music Awards.  In Taxonomy of Pleasure, Tammi Brown takes the JazzBook to a whole new level with her dynamic presence that continually brings audiences to their feet.

Multi Grammy-winning producer Kabir Sehgal says of Tammi: “Tammi Brown has a storied career as a performer, equally comfortable with soulful gospel as with modern, forward-pushing jazz. Her refined phrasing and powerful voice have an almost hypnotic effect as she inhabits each song and mesmerizes with fresh renderings.”

Tammi has performed with Quincy Jones, Alan Parsons, Bobby McFerrin, Stanley Jordan, two-time Grammy nominated vocal ensemble Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir and Tom Schuman of Spyro Gyra, Joan Baez, Dr. Maya Angelou and many others.  She has been on many stages worldwide in over 10 countries.

The Lost American JazzBook is the creation of writer/director Albert Greenberg in collaboration with pianist Dan Zemelman. Greenberg is a long-time theatre composer, creating original works for the stage for over 40 years. His plays and music have been performed in over 60 cities nationwide and traveled the globe from Berlin to Oslo and from Toronto to Tel Aviv. He is also founder and co-artistic director of Black Swan Arts & Media, a performing arts nonprofit based in Oakland, California (blackswanarts.org).

PHOTOS

AUDIO

VIDEO

For Booking contact: contact@lostamericanjazzbook.com