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Tony Adamo's "What is Hip?" CD

Strokeland Jazz is proud to welcome Tony Adamo's new CD, What is Hip?. On this follow-up to his 2007 release, Straight Up Deal, Adamo shows a maturity and depth that puts him firmly at the top in his trademark cool-jazz style. Recorded and mixed at some of the finest studios in the world, including Capitol Records ...
What is Hip?

Album: What is Hip?
By Tony Adamo
Label: Urbanzone Records
Released: 2011
Duration: 4:48
Tony Adamo's "What Is Hip"

The recording of the song What is Hip" on singer/songwriter, Tony Adamo's new CD What is Hip came from a suggestion made by the legendary horn player and Tower of Power co-founder, Stephen Doc" Kupka. During a recording session with Adamo and producer/guitarist, Jerry Stucker, Doc" suggested several T.O.P. songs Adamo might want to cover. Adamo ...
Tony Adamo Reviewed By Smoothjazz.de

Tony Adamo's sonorous voice has a Lou Rawls-like vibrato. A former radio announcer, now a singer and songwriter. Tower of Power member Mic Gillette introduced him to Stephen Doc" Kupka, co-founder of Tower of Power and owner of Strokeland Records. That was the start of a great friendship and a fertile collaboration. Over the next years ...
Singer Tony Adamo's Funky Hip Eleanor Rigby

This very fresh take on the Beatles' symphonically infused downer reemerges here in Adamo's arrangement as decidedly less depressive but certainly no less enticing. The melancholy of the original comes through less so in Adamo's phrasings but is threaded throughout by the plaintiveness of the organ. The sadness of McCartney's voice has been leeched out here ...
Tony Adamo Reviewed by L.A. Jazz Scene's Jim Santella

Pop songs with R&B horns make Tony Adamo’s STRAIGHT UP DEAL sizzle with excitement. He sings with the bold character of a man who knows how to entertain, recalling pop singers Tom Jones, David Clayton-Thomas and Brook Benton as well as jazz singers Al Jarreau and Mark Murphy. His program, however, goes well beyond the pop ...