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Tony Adamo: Miles of Blu
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Long before rappers and scratchers, resurrected Mummies, and Lord Buckley's hipsters and flipsters, the ancient Greeks had a name for “cats" like Tony Adamo--rhapsode. The homonym notwithstanding, a rhapsode was a speak-singer--who plucked his lyre and “spung" (spoke-sung) expressive tales of towering, powerful Gods and the tribulations of mortals below them. Pan pipes and percussion types ...
Funkin' At The Chickin' Shack
Album: Miles of Blu
By Tony Adamo
Label: Random Act Records
Released: 2013
Duration: 3:29
Nine Miles of Blu
Album: Nine Miles of Blu
By Tony Adamo
Label: Urbanzone Records
Released: 0
Duration: 3:06
Tony Adamo's New Video: "Nine Miles of Blu"
In his latest video and MP3 “Nine Miles of Blu," Tony Adamo runs the voodoo down with legendary drummer Mike Clark, and references to being in the middle of a happening jazz scene, tipping his verse to Miles' and Coltrane's “Giant Steps." Guitarist Steve Holman lays down a solid comping on this jazz trio's post-bop, with ...
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 ...
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