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MUSICIAN Born: June 17, 1965

Tony Adamo

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

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Angel Bop Comes To Earth

By TONY ADAMO

Label: Ropeadope Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Angel Bop Comes To Earth

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Did Mark Murphy Believe in UFOS?

By TONY ADAMO

Label: Ropeadope Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Did Mark Murphy Believe In UFOS?

NEWS: RECORDING May 18, 2020

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 ...

TRACK OF THE DAY February 22, 2020

Did Mark Murphy Believe In UFOS?

Album: Did Mark Murphy Believe In UFOS?
By TONY ADAMO
Label: Ropeadope
Released: 2020
Duration: 5:00

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW January 21, 2020

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 ...

NEWS: RECORDING December 29, 2019

Scott Yanow Reviews Tony Adamo's Latest Single 'Did Mark Murphy Believe in UFOs?'

Tony Adamo “Did Mark Murphy Believe in UFOS?" Ropeadope The hippest of the spoken word artists and a fine singer too, Tony Adamo has long championed jazz. His recordings, which feature him improvising lyrics over a funky jazz rhythm section, have included tributes to such greats as Joe Henderson, Eddie Gale, Sun ...

NEWS: RECORDING June 10, 2019

Kirpal Gordon And Benny Gottwald Review Tony Adamo's Was Out Jazz Zone Mad on Ropeadope Records

Kirpal Gordon, adjunct associate professor of writing studies at Hofstra University, and Benny Gottwald, composer, arranger who works with spoken word artists, discuss Tony Adamo's Was Out Jazz Zone Mad. Gordon's prose poetry, fiction, journalism, alternate lyrics to the Great American Songbook and book/music reviews have been widely published. In 2011 he formed Giant Steps Press, ...

NEWS: RECORDING January 29, 2019

All About Jazz Reviews Tony Adamo's Was Out Jazz Zone Mad

All About Jazz reviewed Was Out Jazz Zone Mad twice! By CHRIS M. SLAWECKI January 9, 2019 Some African cultures preserved their history not by the written but by the spoken word, kept by oral cultural historians known as griots. On Was Out Jazz Zone Mad, vocalist Tony Adamo aspires to serve in this ...

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW January 27, 2019

Tony Adamo: Was Out Jazz Zone Mad

By NICHOLAS F. MONDELLO

The translation of “Adam" from Hebrew--from which the surname Adamo springs--means from the “ground" or “soil." It also derives from the Hebrew word for red, a la “red clay." Perhaps that is why any work from Tony Adamo is rare earth--gritty, and flaming crimson. Was Out Jazz Zone Mad Adamo's latest, his first for Ropeadope, is ...