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Tammy McCann Ensemble with Laurence Hobgood

FRIDAY NIGHT JAZZ SERIES AT ALVIN & FRIENDS features Chicago Jazz Vocal Phenom

Alvin & Friends Restaurant in New Rochelle has launched a Friday night jazz series in their intimate 80-seat Roscoe’s Room. The series continues with the Tammy McCann Ensemble with Laurence Hobgood.

She’s been compared to grand diva Dinah Washington with vocals described as soulfully seductive and sumptuous. Classically trained, Tammy McCann is a superlative Chicago-based jazz vocalist who performed with Ray Charles for several years. This show is the first live New York performance featuring her new partnership with Grammy winning composer, arranger and pianist Laurence Hobgood and Steve Williams, drums.

Chicago Tribune jazz writer Howard Reich says "The very thought of a singer of McCann's vocal prowess sharing a stage with a pianist as sensitive and technically accomplished as Hobgood is enough to quicken the pulse of just about any jazz listener.... The McCann-Hobgood collaboration represents an important development for both artists, and for anyone who values jazz musicianship of the highest level."

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Alvin & Friends, Zagat rated 26 for food, 26 for décor and 26 for service, and named by Westchester Magazine as one of the “Best of Westchester” for 2013 – offers a menu influenced by Southern and Caribbean flavors in a sophisticated space, both elegant and comfortable.

First Set 7:30 pm  Second Set 9:30 pm

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$15 in advance / $20 at the door

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