Jazz Beat: Molly Hammer, and Chris Hazelton’s Boogaloo 7, at Green Lady Lounge

How better to enjoy the night after Thanksgiving than with jazz that jumps? Green Lady Lounge offers opportunities upstairs and down. Music starts in the lower level Orion Room with dynamic singer Molly Hammer, whose theater background makes for an entertaining performance. Backed by her trio, Hammer owns the stage, singing jazz standards with a knock-you-down-in-your-chair wallop. At 10 p.m., the music moves upstairs for Chris Hazelton’s Boogaloo 7. With Hazelton on a B-3 organ that’s joined by guitar, drums, congas and a trio of horns, Boogloo 7’s rollicking mix of jazz and funk keeps the floor swinging and smiling. This isn’t the recipe for a quiet evening, but ’tis the season to celebrate, right?