"In 2016, where an always-connected generation screams for attention through new, often contrived definitions of “cool” and surprisingly predictable proclamations of uniqueness, singer and spoken word artist Tony Adamo arrives seemingly from nowhere as a true anachronism: a performer who is authentically “cool” in a timeless, almost reckless way that almost no popular artist today can match." SOULTRACKS
Sunday, January 31, 2016
Yo, Ya Dig?/Tony Adamo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOr53E5n2D0
Friday, January 29, 2016
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
We remember Mic Gillette with classic Tower of Power recordings!
Acid Jazz
http://www.capradio.org/jazz/acid-jazz/2016/01/23/acid-jazz-012316/
Hosted by:
Gary G. VercelliOld school, New school...the soulful experience of Acid Jazz
Saturday, January 23, 2016
City Swings/Tony Adamo
CITY SWINGS/ Hip Spoken Word Lyrics/Tony Adamo/
Drums/Mike Clark/Piano Michael Wolff/Trumpet Tim Ouimette/
Alto Sax Donald Harrison/Bass Richie Goods/
Music Produced By Mike Clark/
Art Tony Adamo/
Thursday, January 21, 2016
Drummer Mike Clark/Art Tony Adamo
Monday, January 18, 2016
RIP MIC GILLETTE/Tony Adamo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_U4BIZhtf4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iRLZvwBjUE
Sunday, January 17, 2016
Design For Italian Kitchen Tiles/The Roma House Company/Tony Adamo
Lyrics To Sonic Henderson/Tony Adamo
Music Produced By Mike Clark/
http://genius.com/Tony-adamo-sonic-henderson-annotated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDuYuYf-v2w
Saturday, January 16, 2016
Friday, January 15, 2016
Alfhonse Mouzon
Alphonse Mouzon
Owner, TENACIOUS RECORDS/MOUZON MUSIC COMPANY
Color Art & Graphics/Tony Adamo/
http://www.mi2n.com/print.php3?id=166421
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Monday, January 11, 2016
Cover Design & Layout by Tony Adamo
Cover Design & Layout by Tony Adamo/
Art Ensemble Of Chi Town/Tony Adamo
Art Ensemble Of Chi Town
Thursday, January 7, 2016
Tony Adamo Nine Miles of Blu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zR3eJrTvXs
Wednesday, January 6, 2016
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
Picasso at midnite/Tony Adamo Hip Spoken Word/ Art Graphic layout & Color
Tony Adamo Hip Spoken Word/ Art Graphic layout & Color
Mike Clark Drums/
Tim Ouimette Trumpet/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QngENQvKg8
Monday, January 4, 2016
Tony Adamo SoulTracks
Tony Adamo: Tony Adamo & The New York Crew Reviewed By Soultracks
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By Chris Rizik
In 2015, where an always-connected generation screams for attention through new, often contrived definitions of “cool” and surprisingly predictable proclamations of uniqueness, singer and spoken word artist Tony Adamo arrives seemingly from nowhere as a true anachronism: a performer who is authentically “cool” in a timeless, almost reckless way that almost no popular artist today can match.
Adamo harkens back to a day that, for most modern listeners, never was: a time in the 50s and 60s when a small but influential cast of artists in jazz, poetry and movies oozed a dangerous, irresistible force that men admired and women wanted. The Rat Pack sort of had it, but for each Sinatra or Martin, there were hundreds of underground artists who lived more dangerously and closer to their creative edge. With jazz as the centerpiece, Adamo effortlessly visits this universe (“Just ride your thought on that groove…are you with me?”) where performers are “cats” that their fans “dig” or even “double dig”; where hipster artists “swing” with the beat, and music is a near religious experience for those immersed naturally or through chemical enhancements.
It is into this utopian musical world that listeners are delivered on Tony Adamo
and the New York Crew, the newest and most
eclectically joyous release from an artist who is unapologetically
beyond time. Using a style he calls Vocal/HipSpokenWord, Adamo creates
an eleven chapter visit to a New York that only ever existed for a few,
but is so clear in its painting that the listener pines for it.
The album is part history lesson through the classic jazz era, with Adamo eschewing the usual subjects, instead delivering spoken homages to lesser known, influential artists like Eddie Harris (“Listen Here Listen Up”), General T Womack (“General T”), and trumpeter Eddie Gale (Gale Flying High”). There is even wishful, created history, as Adamo tells the jazzy tale of artist Pablo Picasso’s fictional nightlife as an anonymous, hip trumpeter (“Picasso at Midnite”).
The album is rarely heavy, but Adamo lightens it further in spots, paying a fun, instrumental tribute to 40s swing in “To Bop or Not to Bop,” and moving from history teacher to wise, playful older brother, singing instruction to a young man on the hip life on “You Gotta Be Fly.”
The band is 100% on point throughout the disc, and Adamo gives them room to breathe. Whether or not Tony Adamo’s poetry hits you right, it is impossible to deny the irresistible sound of The New York Crew, a band led by producer and drummer Mike Clark, pianist Michael Wolff and trumpeter Tim Ouimette, all returning from Adamo’s Miles of Blu album. But, like Kirk Franklin in front of a Gospel choir, without playing a note, Adamo keep's the listener’s rapt attention, preaching, teaching, cajoling and tempting with a brand of poetry will hit dead home for listeners open to its unusual message and cadence.
Tony Adamo and the New York Crew will undoubtedly stretch the taste of listeners more accustomed to the narrow formulas of modern music – especially modern radio. But for those willing to be pulled in unusual, sometimes unexpected directions lyrically and musically, it is an eclectic, left field find that you won’t easily forget, and that you may just come to cherish. Recommended.
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In 2015, where an always-connected generation screams for attention through new, often contrived definitions of “cool” and surprisingly predictable proclamations of uniqueness, singer and spoken word artist Tony Adamo arrives seemingly from nowhere as a true anachronism: a performer who is authentically “cool” in a timeless, almost reckless way that almost no popular artist today can match.
Adamo harkens back to a day that, for most modern listeners, never was: a time in the 50s and 60s when a small but influential cast of artists in jazz, poetry and movies oozed a dangerous, irresistible force that men admired and women wanted. The Rat Pack sort of had it, but for each Sinatra or Martin, there were hundreds of underground artists who lived more dangerously and closer to their creative edge. With jazz as the centerpiece, Adamo effortlessly visits this universe (“Just ride your thought on that groove…are you with me?”) where performers are “cats” that their fans “dig” or even “double dig”; where hipster artists “swing” with the beat, and music is a near religious experience for those immersed naturally or through chemical enhancements.
It is into this utopian musical world that listeners are delivered on Tony Adamo
The album is part history lesson through the classic jazz era, with Adamo eschewing the usual subjects, instead delivering spoken homages to lesser known, influential artists like Eddie Harris (“Listen Here Listen Up”), General T Womack (“General T”), and trumpeter Eddie Gale (Gale Flying High”). There is even wishful, created history, as Adamo tells the jazzy tale of artist Pablo Picasso’s fictional nightlife as an anonymous, hip trumpeter (“Picasso at Midnite”).
The album is rarely heavy, but Adamo lightens it further in spots, paying a fun, instrumental tribute to 40s swing in “To Bop or Not to Bop,” and moving from history teacher to wise, playful older brother, singing instruction to a young man on the hip life on “You Gotta Be Fly.”
The band is 100% on point throughout the disc, and Adamo gives them room to breathe. Whether or not Tony Adamo’s poetry hits you right, it is impossible to deny the irresistible sound of The New York Crew, a band led by producer and drummer Mike Clark, pianist Michael Wolff and trumpeter Tim Ouimette, all returning from Adamo’s Miles of Blu album. But, like Kirk Franklin in front of a Gospel choir, without playing a note, Adamo keep's the listener’s rapt attention, preaching, teaching, cajoling and tempting with a brand of poetry will hit dead home for listeners open to its unusual message and cadence.
Tony Adamo and the New York Crew will undoubtedly stretch the taste of listeners more accustomed to the narrow formulas of modern music – especially modern radio. But for those willing to be pulled in unusual, sometimes unexpected directions lyrically and musically, it is an eclectic, left field find that you won’t easily forget, and that you may just come to cherish. Recommended.
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