Tony Adamo reaches into the pre-rap turf of Gil Scott-Heron here with this
seductive too-short flash memoir about how he discovered jazz and its
legendary envelope-pushers—Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Thelonius
Monk, John Coltrane, Miles Davis. There’s energy and honor and wonder in
Adamo’s words, especially in the fluid alliterative syncopated way the
words reflect the inspiration that jazz gave him—as an artist, as a
human being. Complementing his nimble vocals are former He
rbie
Hancock drummer Mike Clark and guitarist Steve Homan, both of whose
equally homage-ist beats and licks, respectively, are clean but entirely
their own.
Devon Jackson
has written about music and film for a variety of publications--from
Entertainment Weekly and The Village Voice to Rolling Stone and Details.
He is also the author of Conspiranoia! and currently the editor of
Santa Fean magazine.
https://www.strokeland.com/…/Tony…/MilesOfBlu/MilesOfBlu.htm
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