CD cover 4 Jess B. East/Tony Adamo

SONGS of SUN RA

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Bold and vibrant colors dominate the composition, featuring a person wearing sunglasses and a headdress with goggles. Palm trees and abstract shapes contribute to the energetic and dynamic atmosphere. Street Wise Art UK

 In Hip City/Tony Adamo

where rhythms collide, and no jive is spoken/

Guru laid down the truth, a fusion of jazz and rap/ no holds barred streetwise rap talk/ Just as Herbie’s touch on keys/ his Headhunters laid down their stretching rhythm with Mike Clark, drums, and Paul Jackson bass, (God Made Me Funky)

echoing all over the streets/

Digable Planets breathed life

into conversations, with their subgenres into rap, jazz and hip hop

The DP’s spoken word rap jazz hit the airwaves with their debut album (A New Refutation of Time and Space)

Brooklyn NY was the Digable Planets home base in 1993/

Donald Byrd’s trumpet bustin out/while the Black Birds jazz funk blows your mind/ Groove Collective stirred the soul pot with afro-pop/ Latin jazz funk/and old skool hip hop/

while Jazzhole’s sick sound wrapped us in rapid-fire rap jazz a lot dialogue

of funky bass lines and drum machine hot grooves/

Drums beat, turning our feet to the dance floor/

turntables double scratchin’ in time/

congas and the horn section called out with their sweaty beat/

we jammed under urban lights/ and held each other tight/

where the echoes of legends lingered/ into the night air/

Miles, Wynton, Diz, Trane, and the Bird/ their spirit souls

and massive tones bustin’ out a thousand-fold/

we are the new jazz of today/ with new sounds and a new way to play and listen to what’s being said in our life and political systems/ Ya dig?

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Sky Chief 697/Tony Adamo

 Jazz on a Billboard/Tony Adamo

a flash of notes,
Urgent beats, syncopation, improvisation,
and impromptu solos but why jazz on a billboard?
What’s the hap’s on that?
Man, what is the impact of the word jazz on a billboard anyway?
Syncopation is alive,
solos breaking free,
and a temporary show,
but is jazz here to stay?
Does a billboard for Jazz tell us about all the arranging, playing, composing
finding a paying gig, radio spins, music reviews,
band members quitting to get out of the jazz life?
Cars whiz by, faces turned,
who cares about the sound of jazz anyway
The tenor horn says
"Listen up, Listen here
Jazz is everywhere,
and like nowhere to be found
So, dig this
Every jazz note,
every gig, every miss,
and every jazz player who lives jazz behind
Jazz shapes your life with a heartbreaking rhythm.
So, here’s to the journey,
to hip beats and downbeats
Jazz is life on a billboard,
is hip for some passers-by to see
to feel, to groove, to feel where you're at
To come alive, jazz is for real
and that's my dance in life

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WAS IT U?
Under the stars, were Jelly roll Morton rolls, carnival lights twinkling,
like flowers glowing brightly in the night.

Candy-bright sugar moments,
pop like gumdrops,
a sweet melody we all know.

Graffiti dreams paint the walls,
hip-hop rhythms,
jumping over a yellow moon,

Chet Baker's notes float,
alive in the air,
the Hammond B-3 sings its soul,

freestyle, free heart,diggin' to write a jazz chart,
we dance until dawn,
lost in the Latin rhythms of last night.
Tony Adamo

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 Dark Splat 56 Wall Up the Bronx/Tony Adamo

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