"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
Thursday, June 20, 2019
Kirpal Gordon, Author, Ghostwriter, Editor, Spoken Word Performer
Music Review On Allaboutjazz/Was Out Jazz Zone Mad..
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Tuesday, June 11, 2019
Tony Adamo Is On Ropeadope Records
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Music Review On Allaboutjazz/Was Out Jazz Zone Mad/Tony Adamo
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Monday, June 10, 2019
Tony Adamo’s song-poems celebrate his own exodus from the Moloch madness
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
Yazmin Lacey/Nu Jazz Voice On The London Scene/Tony Adamo.
Lacey Says... "The jazz world at large is closed off “and that’s a big problem”. She belongs to a seven-strong, mostly female collective, Nérija, and says, “most of our audience is basically white, middle-class [and] upper-class, elderly people. It’s cool, but that’s not what we want to do. In the next five years, we want to play to people our age.” But the jazz establishment is finally waking up to her generation, and Kokoroko are themselves due to play London jazz club Ronnie Scott’s in May. Maurice-Grey thinks there’s still a way to go; Scott’s is “trying to develop a new relationship with different artists, it’s interesting,” she says, one eyebrow raised – but she’s ready for the test of trying to make a seated dinner club get up and dance. “The audience is very much part of the show,” she says. “There’s no us and them. It’s more about collaborating to make it magical. We’re all part of this journey."
GOD MAKE ME FUNKY/Tony Adamo
Mike Clark has produced 9 of the 13 songs on my nu Ropeadope Records release and two of my past CD's. He hit me up with the story behind "GOD MAKE ME FUNKY." The original song was written for a barbecue joint (Everett & Jones 1970's) in Oakland, ca. Clark and Paul Jackson wrote the song out on napkins while waiting for there Q. There were no tables or chairs to sit on. So he and Paul wrote, "God Make Me Funky" standing up writing the music on napkins against the wall. And dig this. "God Make Me Funky Funky" became the background music for a radio commercial for the barbecue joint that Mike and Paul would eat at almost every day. That commercial for Everett & Jones would air on radio KDIA Oakland, ca. People would call up KDIA and ask what is the song in that commercial? The original song was so funky with Oaktown grease drippin' off the record. That so funky cut is lost forever, Clark said GMMF was recorded at Soul Recording, Oakland, ca. He and Paul Jackson latter joined Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters and recorded a newer version of God MAKE ME FUNK.
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Cocktails With The Beats/Tony Adamo
Disembodied Poetics
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Cocktails With The Beats/Tony Adamo
UPCOMING SHOWS/CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO Sacramento,Ca/Tony Adamo
Acid Jazz, June 1, 2019
June 1, 2019
St. Germain, Hideo Kobayashi, Donald Byrd, Will Bernard, Booker T, Royksopp, Soulive, Gerardo Frisina, Tony Adamo, and more!
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