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Tony Adamo: Sun Ra Throws a Brick Through a Jazz Window
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 ...
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, ...
Popular Jazz Songs: 2022
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 ...
Better Than Picasso At Midnite
By Tony Adamo
Label: Saint Jaz Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Better Than Picasso At MidNite
Better Than Picasso at Midnite
Featuring the music of Tony Adamo
Duration: 3:53
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. ...
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 ...
Tony Adamo: Better Than Picasso At Midnite
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 ...
Better Than Picasso At Midinite
Album: Better Than Picasso At Midnite
By Tony Adamo
Label: Saint Jaz Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 3:55
Jazz and the Spoken Word
by Jerome Wilson
This show examines the intersection of jazz and various forms of the spoken word, including rap, beat-era jive and classic poets like Langston Hughes, W. B. Yeats, and Walt Whitman. The musicians interpreting these works include Babs Gonzales, David Murray, Christine Tobin, and Deborah Harry & the Jazz Passengers. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I ...
