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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
You Gotta B Fly

Album: Tony Adamo And The New York Crew
By Tony Adamo
Label: Urbanzone Records
Released: 0
Duration: 3:11
Tony Adamo Receives Permission To Rename And Write Lyrics To A Future Sun Ra Song

Tony Adamo wrote about and released music on Eddie Harris, B.B. King, Eddie Henderson, Art Blakey, James Brown, Mark Murphy, Eddie Gale, Jack Kerouac, and Sun Ra, the song entitled “Sun Ra Goes to Mars.” The Eddie Harris estate gave Adamo permission to write spoken word to his “Listen Here.” Adamo renamed it “Listen Here Listen ...
Popular Tracks: 2020

by Michael Ricci
All About Jazz tracks how often a featured song is heard, and the following represent the most popular in 2020. If you missed them the first time around, give them a listen now, and enjoy! Did Mark Murphy Believe In UFOS? Tony AdamoDid Mark Murphy Believe In UFOS? ...
Angel Bop Comes To Earth

By Tony Adamo
Label: Ropeadope Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Angel Bop Comes To Earth
Did Mark Murphy Believe in UFOS?

By Tony Adamo
Label: Ropeadope Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Did Mark Murphy Believe In UFOS?
Jazz From Heaven…Tony Adamo: Angel Bop Reviewed By Jazz Weekly

Bay area vocalist Tony Adamo tells another jazz story in swinging Steinbeck fashion, this time from a heavenly viewpoint. Adamo sings out the role of a bebopping angel “in the heavens of my walk here on earth…digging on the new jazz”. With his late night dj of a voice, he’s backed by a mix of funk ...
Tony Adamo Pays Tribute To Mark Murphy And UFOs By Chris Rizik for Soultracks
First Listen: Tony Adamo pays tribute to Mark Murphy and UFOs (May 13, 2020) In 2015, we described singer and spoken word artist Tony Adamo as “a true anachronism: a performer who is authentically ‘cool’ in a timeless, almost reckless way that almost no popular artist today can match.” It’s five years later and the irrepressible ...
Did Mark Murphy Believe In UFOS?

Album: Did Mark Murphy Believe In UFOS?
By Tony Adamo
Label: Ropeadope
Released: 2020
Duration: 5:00
Tony Adamo: Did Mark Murphy Believe in UFOS?

by Nicholas F. Mondello
The interrogative title of this fine track shares an interesting insight, as well as its supposition. Whether the late singer literally did buy into UFOs--a la Sun Ra who saw space as the place"--or he didn't is irrelevant. What is key is the fact that Mark Murphy has had a definitive and lasting impact on jazz ...