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Article: Album Review

Tony Adamo: Soul Glide

by Nicholas F. Mondello
March 6, 2024

"Soul Glide" is the latest offering from singer/composer and hipster nonpareil, Tony Adamo. The track is a slick R&B throwback with an Eddie Harris “Listen Here" vibe and groove. It is an enjoyable listen and it has terrific momentum and bite. Over a solid rhythm bed from this spirited ensemble, Rob Sudduth's tenor ...

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Adamo Delivers Lyrics In A Style That Would Make Soul Train’s Don Cornelius Smile

March 5, 2024

“Soul Glide” is the single from Tony Adamo’s upcoming album of the same name, and by the sound of it, you might not need your ears as much as dancing shoes to appreciate. Adamo delivers lyrics in a style that would make Soul Train’s Don Cornelius smile, and which back in the day would make people ...

Song of the Day

Soul Glide

February 20, 2024

Album: Soul Glide
By Tony Adamo
Label: Staint Jaz Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 4:51

Album

Sun Ra Throws a Brick Through a Jazz Window

By Tony Adamo

Label: Saint Jaz
Released: 2023

Article: Album Review

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

by Nicholas F. Mondello
May 7, 2023

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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Giacomo Gates Sings The Song, Tony Adamo Writes The Music

January 5, 2023

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, ...

Article: Year in Review

Popular Jazz Songs: 2022

by Michael Ricci
January 4, 2023

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

By Tony Adamo

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
April 21, 2022

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

April 13, 2022

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. ...