Jazz Beat: Ann Hampton Callaway, with the Kansas City jazz Orchestra, at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts

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If you’ve ever seen the TV sitcom The Nanny, you know Ann Hampton Callaway’s voice — she sang the theme song. As an actress, she starred in Broadway’s Swing! She sang in Washington, D.C., for Bill Clinton and in Moscow for Mikhail Gorbachev. Her compositions have been performed by Barbra Streisand, Patti LuPone and Carole King. Her own discography includes three albums that have gone platinum. Tuesday night, Callaway’s smooth and powerfully soulful voice, a style that melds jazz with cabaret dynamism, joins the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra for its annual Christmas celebration at the Kauffman Center’s Helzberg Hall. This show traditionally is the orchestra’s most popular. With a talent like Callaway’s onstage, this year should be no exception.