"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
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Surrealist poet Philip Lamantia. Art Tony Adamo/
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ZULU SIN
Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Melbourne Spoken Word(Australia) turned down my Sonic Henderson for release on their site
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4 Reasons Tony Adamo Is The Next Great Jazz Artist
4 Reasons Tony Adamo Is The Next Great Jazz Artist
The word jazz itself evokes a feeling of another time- New Orleans, the 1920s, Tony Bennett…. The swell of a saxophone is enough to send one back in time to a Gatsby-style gala. Jazz music remains one of the most influential genres of all time. Here are four reasons why Tony Adamo is the next great jazz musician.
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murder beats not people/Tony Adamo/
Make good music by killing instrumentals/beats; don't kill your fellow brothers and sisters in humanity.
Monday, June 6, 2016
NINE MILES OF BLU/Tony Adamo/Digital Poet
MILES OF BLUE
By
Tony Adamo
(Nov.25,’05) Hipspoken’ Word
I walked into a little jazz dive off
125th and Lex
a cold wind blew me through the swingin’
doors/
Beer, peanuts, dark smoke and the smell
of times gone by laid me out like I was a hit man in a deep freeze/
I was in the mood to get down
I was in the mood to get down
not just any get down mood, but a funky
jazzy get down highlife mood that would shake me down to the bone/
Now how was that gonna happen/
On walls above the bar were pixs of
Jimmy Smith, Brother Jack McDuff, Shirley Scott and larry Young/
I had come from nowhere to find somewhere?/
On the ceiling were old and tattered
playbills of past greats: Miles, Mingus, Monk, Train, Diz and the Bird/
They had come in the early AM over the
years to jam on tiny a tiny stage that gave birth to a new musical word/
A jazzy sophistication accented by a
hipness in thought. A complex amazingly
beautiful musical abstraction of pure melody line/
Can you dig it? I had to sit down/ My head was spinnin’ fast
thinking about the possibilities that Monk, Diz and the Bird had pushed into
one fat chord/ Their musically original ideas gave birth to a spontaneous
explosion of hybrid scales and hip to the bone atmospherical, improvisational,
thoroughly impossible, but not improbable jazz notes of wonderment that had a
residual harmonic effect upon our lives and souls/ Man I was in deep/ There was
no turning back now I felt a tap on my
shoulder/
I turned and looked up into a wise
face. A face that said are you walkin or
drinkin?. I ordered a Brave Bull light
on the rocks/
You got to be cool……nine miles of blue.
You got to get it right
With Miles and the gang you can see the
light.
You got to be hip…….nine miles on a blue
trip.
No live music was in this joint, but Lou
Donulson was lighting up the jukebox with his funky alligator boogaloo/
My mind kept tripping back to Miles,
Mingus, Monk, Train, Diz and the Bird.
Maybe it was the ghost of times gone by or just the vibe of the room/ Whatever it was, I was in the zone of
thought, the abstract thought of musical truth/
Those cats were the jazz architects of
the new sound dimensions that colored our black and white lives/
A jazzy soul drenched feel that seeped
in and saturated our dull existence and musically brought us closer to the Love
Supreme/
You got to be cool……nine miles of blue.
You got to get it right
With Miles and the gang you can see the
light.
You got to be hip…….nine miles on a blue
trip.
So what you may say! So what!
Their music changed our performance in life. The force of their powerful presence leaves
you spellbound. We all started to take
Giant Steps around Midnight. Yeh…nine
miles of blue.
You got to be cool……nine miles of blue.
You got to get it right
With Miles and the gang you can see the
light.
You got to be hip…….nine miles on a blue
trip.
BB KING BLUES ON FIRE/LYRICS BY TONY ADAMO
Tony Adamo Lyrics/Vocal Hipspoken word/Mike Clark Drums/Mike LeDonne Organ/Jack Wilkins Guitar/Tim Ouimette Trumpet & Horn Arrangments
BB KING BLUES ON FIRE/LYRICS BY TONY ADAMO/6/7/15
BB KING BLUES ON FIRE/LYRICS BY TONY ADAMO/6/7/15
HEY BABY BABY WHAT YA SAY? YOU BE DIGGIN” BB ALL THE WAY/BB KING IS THE BLUES ON FIRE
THE THRILL IS GONE BUT NOT YOUR DESIRE/
BB KINGS SOUL WILL NEVER DIE
BB KINGS SOUL WILL NEVER DIE
HE WAS A YOUNG BOY WHEN HE LEARNED TO PLAY/ BB KING HAD A WHOLE LOTA SAY/HE GOT THE SOUND JUMPIN’ YOUR WAY/ SELF TAUGHT BUT MAN/ MAN COULD HE PLAY/
BB KING AND HIS BLUES WILL NEVER DIE
BB KING AND HIS BLUES WILL NEVER DIE
ON THE ROAD ALL HIS LIFE WITH LUCILLE AND THE BLUES AS HIS WIFE/ IT WAS TUFF MAN/ BUT HE HAD A PLAN TO B THE GREATEST BLUESMAN IN THE LAND/ HIGH ABOVE IN HEAVENS SKY/ THE BB KING BLUES BAND WILL NEVER DIE
LOOK TALKIN’/ HIP SWINGIN’ BLUES/ BB KING CAN NEVER LOOSE/ HE’S GOT YOUR NUMBER ALL THE WAY/ HIS HAPPY CRYIN’ BLUES SOUND IS HERE TO STAY/ BB KING IS THE MIGHTY MIGHTY BLUES MAN
YO BARTENDER/ I GOT A POCKET FULL OF PRESIDENTS/ SO I CAN TALK AL NITE BOUT
ETTA JAMES/ MUDDY WATERS/ ODETTA/ DAVID ‘HONY BOY’ EDWARDS/ MAGIC SLIM/ KOKO TAYLOR/ JOHNNY WINTER/PINTOP PERKINS/ ALL THOSE BLUES MEN & WOMEN WE BE SITTEN IN WITH BB KING IN HIS BIG BLUES BAND IN THE SKY
YO BARTENDER/ I GOT A POCKET FULL OF PRESIDENTS/ SO I CAN TALK AL NITE BOUT
ETTA JAMES/ MUDDY WATERS/ ODETTA/ DAVID ‘HONY BOY’ EDWARDS/ MAGIC SLIM/ KOKO TAYLOR/ JOHNNY WINTER/PINTOP PERKINS/ ALL THOSE BLUES MEN & WOMEN WE BE SITTEN IN WITH BB KING IN HIS BIG BLUES BAND IN THE SKY
HEY BABY BABY WHAT YA SAY YOU B DIGGIN’ BB ALL THE WAY/BB KING IS THE BLUES ON FIRE/ THE THRILL IS GONE BUT NOT YOUR DESIRE/HEY BB SHOW US THE WAY/ TIME-N-TIME AND TIME AGAIN/ BB KING IS THE BLUES TO NO END/PEOPLE BETTER GET IT RIGHT/BB KING IS THE BLUES IN THE NITE/ OUT
General T By: Tony Adamo
By: Tony Adamo
From: Tony Adamo And The New York Crew
(Urbanzone Records)
https://media.allaboutjazz.com/media.php?id=10681
STORY ART/TONY ADAMO
Coming out of Grand Central Station, I almost tripped over a body laying half way in a closed store front and half way on the side walk. I could not tell if it was a man or women as the person was wearing tattered winter clothes. As I bent down to get a closer look and help out, a voice said, can't you see I'm sleeping.
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