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Kirpal Gordon And Benny Gottwald Review Tony Adamo's Was Out Jazz Zone Mad on Ropeadope Records
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Kirpal Gordon, adjunct associate professor of writing studies at Hofstra University, and Benny Gottwald, composer, arranger who works with spoken word artists, discuss Tony Adamo's Was Out Jazz Zone Mad. Gordon's prose poetry, fiction, journalism, alternate lyrics to the Great American Songbook and book/music reviews have been widely published. In 2011 he formed Giant Steps Press, a writer's cooperative. Kirpal Gordon: As a bassist, composer and arranger who has worked with spoken word artists and vocalists, what did you make ...
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All About Jazz Reviews Tony Adamo's Was Out Jazz Zone Mad
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All About Jazz reviewed Was Out Jazz Zone Mad twice! By CHRIS M. SLAWECKI January 9, 2019 Some African cultures preserved their history not by the written but by the spoken word, kept by oral cultural historians known as griots. On Was Out Jazz Zone Mad, vocalist Tony Adamo aspires to serve in this same role, as a verbal historian of both official and unofficial African- American jazz and blues culture. This type of jazz jive might wear ...
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Tony Adamo: Was Out Jazz Zone Mad reviewed By Jazz Weekly
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One of the great things about Tony Adamo is that you just can’t peg him down. He’s part vocalist, poet, street preacher, hip uncle, but above all, a jazzer with a grooving heart. On this album, he lays down the jazz laws of life’s observations with the highly funkified team that includes legendary drummer Mike Clark along with Jack Wilkins, Mike LeDonne, Donald Harrison, Tim Ouimette and various other cats who sit in for some snapping beats. Adamo’s voice is ...
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Tony Adamo Releases Was Out Jazz Zone Mad on Ropeadope Records. Available September 14, 2018
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Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
Born in San Francisco, California, Tony Adamo has strong ties to his Italian American family in the Bronx and Brooklyn. After his stint in the Navy, he attended the Actor’s Studio and discovered a whole new world referred to as “method acting.” He discovered that he was terrible at remembering lines, and soon headed back to music as his true calling, with a very improvisational intent. After some time on the radio and some gigging with rock bands (as a ...
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