TAMMY MCCANN vocals FAREED HAQUE guitar/ sitar SAM JEWELL drums JOHN SUTTON bass JUSTIN DILLARD B3 TOM VIATSAS piano Tammy McCann, In the three decades she’s been on the scene, no one has moved so effortlessly and ebulliently from the secular to the sacred world than the Mississippi-born, Windy City native Tammy McCann. Her brilliant blend of gospel, jazz, and blues reigns supreme on her new CD Do I Move You? (Io Canto Music, LLC). In February, Tammy McCann was the fetaured vocalist for Victory Is Assured: An Evening in Honor of Stanley Crouch, the late author, jazz critic and co-founder of Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC). The special tribute was held at Dizzy’s Club, with pianists Cyrus Chestnut and Bill Charlap, bassists Christian McBride and Peter Washington, drummers Jeff “Tain” Watts and Andrew Cyrille, saxophonist David Murray and others. Co-produced by Grammy-winning bassist/bandleader John Clayton, who has mentored McCann for years, and longtime collaborator guitarist Fareed Haque, McCann’s Do I Move You? was created at the end of the COVID-19 quarantine period. And, as McCann states in Grammy-award-winning Journalist and Broadcaster Neil Tesser’s CD liner notes, she wanted to “create something that would bring us out of the emotional isolation we’ve been in – something that would make people feel again.” McCann enlisted Haque to take listeners to a place where jazz, gospel and the blues meet at a musical crossroads. McCann calls that musical mixture her marinade. “The real miracle of this album, and in this voice, lies beyond Tammy’s ability to host a musical smorgasbord of individual dishes,” Tesser writes. “You can try to identify each unique taste profile, isolate each influence, but that misses the point. In a good marinade, the flavors swirl together, combining into something that transcends each ingredient, so you can hardly tell where one leaves off and the other begins.” On Do I Move You?, McCann sings from her personal “marinade” of musical genres to create one spectacular work of aural art. As Tesser writes, “We all contain multitudes, and here, on what she calls ‘my most personal album,’ she lets them speak together.”