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Vocalist Tammy McCann discovered jazz while she was an opera student in her native Chicago. She decided to apply her considerable vocal range to a broad palette of musical styles, touring as a backup singer for Ray Charles and with her own successful gospel ensemble. That extensive vocal background crosses genres, too, as she tells host Jon Weber: "A little secret between just you and I: I use some of my classical melody lines for scat."

Here, Weber accompanies McCann in "Daydream," "Why Was I Born" and "Easy Living."

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