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Tony Adamo

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Reviewed by Kirpal Gordon (reprinted from Jazz Times) The killin’ist thing about Tony Adamo & the New York Crew is that everybody in the band, especially the dope rhyme sayer, has got big ears all the way back to New Orleans and ancient-forward into the ever-evolving Multi-New Thing. It’s big ears working together that’s keeping this CD in Jazzweek's Chart Top 200 List since its release, a totally unheard of phenomenon for jazz-spoken word collaborations. Although singing the talents and wonders of the giants who make this music immortal is nothing new, Adamo and the New York Crew pour out on these eleven tracks joyous lagniappes of praise, the song-cup running over with each additional solo

Album

Sun Ra Throws a Brick Through a Jazz Window

Label: Saint Jaz
Released: 2023

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Article: Album Review

Tony Adamo: Sun Ra Throws a Brick Through a Jazz Window

Read "Sun Ra Throws a Brick Through a Jazz Window" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello


When one listens to the work of Tony Adamo, there needs to be a self-understanding that Adamo's approach to jazz completely abolishes any pre-conceptions of what “singing," “vocalese," and “storytelling" are. His efforts are a highly-stylized ultra-hip gumbo of these things, usually overlaid over a swinging, driving rhythmic platform. His is music intense and this track ...

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News: Music Industry

Giacomo Gates Sings The Song, Tony Adamo Writes The Music

Giacomo Gates Sings The Song, Tony Adamo Writes The Music

Jazz troubadour and terminal hipster Giacomo Gates just keeps getting better and better. Gates is one of the top male jazz singers around today. He's a talented, skillful, and a rock-solid professional. With his vocalese and bebop attitude, he sings, scats, dropping his swinging baritone voice into every lyric he sings. A few years ago, singer, ...

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Article: Year in Review

Popular Jazz Songs: 2022

Read "Popular Jazz Songs: 2022" reviewed by Michael Ricci


All About Jazz tracks how often a featured Song of the Day is heard, and the following represent the most popular in 2022. If you missed them the first time around, give them a listen now. We appended our Song of the Week 2022 playlist below. They may not represent the most popular ...

Album

Better Than Picasso At Midnite

Label: Saint Jaz Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Better Than Picasso At MidNite

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Better Than Picasso at Midnite

Featuring the music of Tony Adamo
Duration: 3:53

"Adamo is a brilliantly creative talent whose recordings are so hip, so singular that they're something that you don't just listen to; you experience them. From his past efforts, we know that he dwells in a world where words are 'sing-spoke,' told with a heavy dollop of jazz names served up Cool. He's a griot whose game is not rap and it's not 'vocalese,' but a love child of both genres. It's an acquired taste, for sure. But, it's musical heroin— one just gets hooked." —Nicholas F. Mondello, All About Jazz
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News: Recording

Jazz Journalist / Historian Scott Yanow Reviews 'Better Than Picasso At Midnite' By Tony Adamo

Jazz Journalist / Historian Scott Yanow Reviews 'Better Than Picasso At Midnite' By Tony Adamo

Better Than Picasso At Midnite An inventive spoken word artist who also sings well, Tony Adamo loves jazz and always goes out of his way to champion the music in his lyrics. One can link him to Jack Kerouac and the hipsters of the 1950s, yet his approach is contemporary and usually utilizes a funky background. ...

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News: Recording

Jazz Weekly Reviews Tony Adamo's 'Better Than Picasso At Midnite'

Jazz Weekly Reviews Tony Adamo's 'Better Than Picasso At Midnite'

Well, the blue-jeaned, floppy hat-wearing singing street preacher Tony Adamo is back with a new upcoming album. Here’s the first single from it, Better Than Picasso At Midnite, which is essentially polishing, refurbishing, new engine adding remake of the classic “Better Than Anything” and machine shopped, chopped, and hopped by Tony A. The original lyrics are ...

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Article: Album Review

Tony Adamo: Better Than Picasso At Midnite

Read "Better Than Picasso At Midnite" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello


When you listen to vocal artist Tony Adamo, it reminds of that 1960s' mantra from Jimi Hendrix, “Are You Experienced?" That's because Adamo is a brilliantly creative talent whose recordings are so hip, so singular that they're something that you don't just listen to; you experience them. From his past efforts, we know that he dwells ...


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