Singer/Hipspokenword Artist Tony Adamo goes to #1 on the allaboutjazz Top25 jazz charts last 90 days. #1 last 90 days #1 last 60 days #1 last 30 days #1 last 10 days Nine Miles of Blu is produced by legendary drummer Mike Clark of Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters.
All About Jazz Top 5 MP3 Downloads: March 2012 Tony Adamo's 9 MILES of BLU in the top five reader favorites as indicated by total downloads. All About Jazz features and syndicates an exceptional song every day spanning all genres of jazz, and of the 31 tracks featured in March, these five represent my personal favorites. I also included the top five reader favorites as indicated by total downloads. If you are a musician or record label, you can submit your full length MP3 for consideration here.
Tony Adamo's 9 Miles of Blu was the #4 download for the last 60 days on allaboutjazz.com. 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 Herbie Hancock drummer Mike Clark and guitarist Steve Homan, both of whose equally homage-ist beats and licks, respectively, are clean but entirely their own.
All About Jazz Top 5 MP3 Downloads: March 2012 Tony Adamo's 9 MILES of BLU in the top five reader favorites as indicated by total downloads. All About Jazz features and syndicates an exceptional song every day spanning all genres of jazz, and of the 31 tracks featured in March, these five represent my personal favorites. I also included the top five reader favorites as indicated by total downloads. If you are a musician or record label, you can submit your full length MP3 for consideration here.
Tony Adamo's exuberant jazzy take on Tower of Power's funk classic 'What is Hip?" gives it a more sinewy vibe, elasticizing the vocals and the bass, while crackling up the song's more timpanic elements. This exuberantly self-assured remake recalls the Acid Jazz insouciance of the early 90s while harkening back to the Big Band era and the Vegas-y stylings of suave masters of self-confidence such as Tom Jones and Al Jarreau. Adamo has a brash self-assuredness and a sense of showmanship that's neither unearned nor in your face. You can almost picture him taking a drag from an unfiltered or sipping from a martini in between some of his spoken-word lines. And the arrangements are crisp, solid and spicy--punctuating Adamo's vocals and his been-there sung-that attitude. Devon Jackson, Magazine Editor - A freelance Music Journalist, he has written about music and film for a variety of publications--from Entertainment Weekly and The Village Voice to Rolling Stone and Details Website Music
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