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- What is your profession?
- Musician, Songwriter, Singer
- What Instrument Do you Play?
- Vocals
- Where Are you located?
- San Francisco,CA
- How did you find out about TGJN?
- Funkitup.com
- About Me:
- Adamo is like Lou Rawls fronting Tower of Power..."
-- "Stuart Hamilton, Amazon.co.uk
"Think Lou Reed, but funkified..."
-- "Sandy Shore, Smoothjazz.com
Tony Adamo is making some waves. The music press has been taking notice of this talented singer/songwriter's latest release, STRAIGHT UP DEAL. With all the confidence and poise of a seasoned entertainer and a true original, Adamo tackles jazz standards, Soul, and R&B with equal aplomb and adds his own inimitable style.
For Adamo's current release, STRAIGHT UP DEAL, producer Jerry Stucker brought in the hippest of the hip session players. Among them were Mic Gillette and Skip Mesquite of Tower of Power fame. Tony had befriended them both at a recording session with Dave Hartel, who was the organist for Lydia Pense and Cold Blood at the time. Several years later, when it came time to lay down the horn tracks for the session, Mic and Skip were called in for the session.
Mic then brought in Stephen 'Doc' Kupka, who further funkified the horn section on tunes "No Strings" and "Groove Therapy". The song "Groove Therapy" was written to honor Doc Kupka, and Tony found it beyond cool to have the Funky Doctor himself playing on the track.
Other notables Stucker brought in for the recording of STRAIGHT UP DEAL included Mike Clark (Headhunters), Paul Jackson (Headhunters), Ernie Watts, Eddie Henderson, Neil Larson, James Gadson, Freddie Washington, Rodney Franklin, Paul van Wageningen, Shota Osabe, Gary Brown, Melecio Magdaluyo, and Sandy Griffith.
Production on STRAIGHT UP DEAL is nothing short of world-class and none other than 19-time Grammy winning recording engineer and record producer Al Schmitt mixed several of the songs. Al Schmitt also mixed Doc Kupka's beautiful release, DOC GOES HOLLYWOOD. Like DOC GOES HOLLYWOOD, STRAIGHT UP DEAL was mastered by Capitol Mastering's Ron McMaster and the results are outstanding.
Strokeland Jazz welcomes Tony Adamo. Give STRAIGHT UP DEAL a listen for yourself and enjoy.
REVIEW
"Pop songs with R&B horns make Tony Adamo’s STRAIGHT UP DEAL sizzle with excitement. He sings with the bold character of a man who knows how to entertain, recalling pop singers Tom Jones, David Clayton-Thomas and Brook Benton as well as jazz singers Al Jarreau and Mark Murphy. His program, however, goes well beyond the pop and R&B arena into Jazz interpretations of standards such as 'Milestones', 'Mercy, Mercy, Mercy', 'Stolen Moments', '“In the WineLight', and 'Speak Low'."
"The band, which includes horns with guitars, bass, keyboards and drums, gives Adamo a solid foundation from which he wails soulfully. Several guests help to make the session come alive: trumpeter Eddie Henderson, tenor saxophonist Ernie Watts, guitarist Jerry Stucker, baritone saxophonist Doc Kupka, and alto saxophonist Melecio Magdaluyo."
"Adamo swings up front on 'Hey Lou' with persuasive jazz-talk, settles down for 'Autumn Leaves' with a straightforward ballad approach, curls up with ' Lolita' in a romantic way, croons 'Speak Low' with a delightful spin, cries 'Mercy, Mercy, Mercy' with funk dreams on his mind, and creates a lovely program rich in the jazz tradition and fun to be with."
-- Jim Santella, L.A Jazz Scene – December, 2008
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Tony Adamo's "This Time It's Real" back in rotation
Horndrivenradio.com 10-26-09
We are also glad to have back in our rotation the new TOP cover song from Tony Adamo "This Time It's Real". Tony's music can be found at www.strokeland.com. Lastly, we are continuing to play three songs from Greg Adams new project "East Bay Soul".
www.myspace.com/tonyrocadamo
We are also glad to have back in our rotation the new TOP cover song from Tony Adamo "This Time It's Real". Tony's music can be found at www.strokeland.com. Lastly, we are continuing to play three songs from Greg Adams new project "East Bay Soul".
www.myspace.com/tonyrocadamo
Posted on October 26, 2009 at 7:07pm —
Tony Adamo on Smoothjazz.com Radio Hot Pick List
Smoothjazz.com Radio
HOT-PICK BUZZ BOX
Tony Adamo's "This Time It's Real"
www.strokeland.com
www.myspace.com/tonyrocadamo
HOT-PICK BUZZ BOX
Tony Adamo's "This Time It's Real"
www.strokeland.com
www.myspace.com/tonyrocadamo
Posted on October 25, 2009 at 5:01pm —
TONY ADAMO IS ROLLIN’ WITH A LEAN MEAN FUNK MACHINE
TONY ADAMO IS ROLLIN’ WITH A LEAN MEAN FUNK MACHINE
Franki LaMantia, New York City, New York
www.strokeland.com
Tony Adamo kicks it into high gear with help from the rollin’ lean mean funk machine: Eddie Henderson (trumpet), Mike Clark (drums), and Richie Goods (bass). Adamo’s long time guitarist/producer, Jerry Stucker, brought this mighty trio of great players together at Dubway Recording Studios, New York City. There the three recorded on two songs for Adamo’s new 2010 release. One of the so… Continue
Franki LaMantia, New York City, New York
www.strokeland.com
Tony Adamo kicks it into high gear with help from the rollin’ lean mean funk machine: Eddie Henderson (trumpet), Mike Clark (drums), and Richie Goods (bass). Adamo’s long time guitarist/producer, Jerry Stucker, brought this mighty trio of great players together at Dubway Recording Studios, New York City. There the three recorded on two songs for Adamo’s new 2010 release. One of the so… Continue
Posted on October 13, 2009 at 7:26pm —
Tony Adamo Gets The Radio Spins
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Denver's Smooth Jazz Radio Station KKHI 101.9 is spinning Tony Adamo's cover of the Tower of Power hit "This Time It's Real". Request it at kkhi1019.com
www.strokeland.com
www.myspace.com/tonyrocadamo
Denver's Smooth Jazz Radio Station KKHI 101.9 is spinning Tony Adamo's cover of the Tower of Power hit "This Time It's Real". Request it at kkhi1019.com
www.strokeland.com
www.myspace.com/tonyrocadamo
Posted on September 26, 2009 at 2:28pm —
Horndrivenradio Spins Tony Adamo
Also, we continue to play three songs from “Sage” who just released their 40th Anniversary CD (a three song CD, in advance of their full CD coming out in 2010). Still in the mix as well is a new song from “East Bay Soul” titled “Survival Of The Hippest” (CD due out in September of this year), and an offering from “Tony Adamo”, which is a cover of the “Tower Of Power” classic, “This Time Its Real” (this song can be purchased as an MP3 directly from “Strokeland Records”.
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Posted on August 24, 2009 at 7:30pm —
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Dear Tamm E:
Just a note to tell you that it is nice to read about you!!!
You share so much great info about others and about the music, but nice to know that you are WAILIN' yourself and getting appreciation!!
Global Jazz Network is a really important way for all of us to keep hooked up and informed and to SLOWLY BUT SURELY SPREAD THE MESSAGE AND THE PHILOSOPHY of what Jazz is in its many different forms and what the styles are/is all about.
Just played for Paquito's honoring and received gold medal
John Faddis, save Brubeck, James moody and a bunch of KILLER YOUNG players and we all played and spoke about Paquito and jazz and all fine music
and Roberta Gamborini, who was excellent.
wish you had been there!
Through you, Donald Harrison hooked me up with Pittsburgh Jazz info and I feel like i am living there just reading about all the great happenings.
As Fall is here, I am back to my normal insane schedule, but wanted to write you back BEFORE The STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS goes into effect. I am my own secretary, so I am dedicated but SLOW!
And I can't fire myself as my own secretary or I might get hit with an Age Discrimination Lawsuit (in case I decided to sue myself for clerical incompetence).
As of this moment, a new documentary film is being made about me, to be released a few months after my 80th birthday, which is coming up next year Nov. 17, 2010. (12 months from now).
The film will end with the videoing of the big 80th birthday bash at Symphony Space in NYC and then have snippets of films from the past, with all kinds of fun stuff from the 50's thru today.
It will be called "David Amram: The First 80 Years"
Fortunately, I don't have to edit the hundreds of hours of footage or do new music the score, since the film maker, Larry Kraman is also the founder of Newport Classics recordings and knows all my symphonic as well as operatic, theater, film and jazz and world music work, so I am in good hands!!
The same people at Newport Classics Recordings are also making a Spoken Word series for I-Tunes, with me reading from my three books Vibrations, Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac and Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat.
And they are also recording some of my chamber music compositions and a new jazz record,
Next Spring my opera "12th Night", with libretto by Joe Papp (all words of Shakespeare), is having its eighth production and being FILMED!! Even most dead composers aren't that lucky!!!
This last five weeks I have appeared all over the country at concerts of my music, conducting and playing, doing spoken word with music, jazz, folk and world music festivals, film festivals and readings from my books.
Just the first week of October, I played Lowell Celebrates Kerouac festival in Lowell Mass, then the at midnight , following my last concert there , drove all night to Lagaurda Airport to catch the early Sunday mornng flight for the annual Farm Aid Concert in St Louis, where i played with Willie Nelson's band. The next morning (Monday the 5th , I flew bck to NYC in tme for my monthly concert at Cornelia Street in Greenwich Village.
The next night (Tuesday the 6th) the memorial at Symphony Space for Frank Mccourt, and the next day Wednesday the 7th) the celebration of the new authorized biography of Thelonious Monk with members of his family and musicians I have known since I first arrived in NYC in 1955!!
The 11th i flew off to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates,( i got at least get a few hours sleep) and tried to catch up on over 200 e-mails during the 13 hour flight, before arriving there and performing a concert of global music in conjunction with the score I composed for Teri McLuhan's new documentary feature film The Frontier Ghandi.
Then back in the USA in time to do programs centered around a performance of my Saxophone concerto Ode to Lord Buckley, in Loudoun Virginia ..
Then I went off to Toronto Nov 1st for a concert and appearance at the Diaspora Film Festival .
Now i am back at home hiding out composing and writing!
I am starting my fourth book "David Amram: The First 80 Years", (the same name as the new doc film being made about me), which will be finished at the end of next year and will end, like the film, with the monstro birthday bash concert for my Big 80... 12 months from now....(Nov 17 2010) in New York.
And every day, still finding time to continue composing a new orchestral work, having been doing it while on the run, and now every minute when I can hide out at the Farm in between travels.
And performing whenever possible with my three kids, each of whom have their own bands.
So as the BIG 80 approaches twelve months from now, (2010) while I may be still shy, I am not yet the retiring type.
Most of my ever-changing my schedule info. when i can get my elderly secretary (unfortunately myself) to type it up, is posted on my web page www.davidamram.com under Upcoming Events.
And my e-mail amramdavid@aol.com is always the best way to reach me as I carry my laptop with me everywhere, and Facebook, MySpace, etc., is hard to deal with and not always reliable!
You might find it fun to access an old performance of my 1971 Rondo a la Turca on the Internet for FREE!!!
The person who is conducting the Chicago Symphony and playing the middle eastern flute (who looks like my grandson) is actually a much younger looking me in 1977, recording for a PBS network TV show about my music. Pepper Adams and Jerry Dodgion are also playing.
In 1977, most of members of the Chicago Symphony who appear on the recording of this performance had never heard, much less ever played, very much music from the Middle East, and since I write everything out on paper accurately to indicate the way it should be played, that's what they were playing, and they actually began to sound like the Radio Beirut Orchestra, and suddenly as the piece went on, they started feeling something different than they had ever felt before, as they played.
It is really fun to watch their faces as they started getting ingo the old time magical groove that Middle eastern music creates and takes you into.
During the first few minutes of the piece, you can see the musicians all playing up a storm but looking as if they were thinking that I was an alien from another planet in outer space, and had brought some extra terrestrial music with me for them to play.
And then as the piece progresses, you can see, as well as hear, that by the end of the piece, the idiom of this music got them excited enough to be actually enjoying playing it!!
And playing it really well!
That's what music, like film, novels, poetry, painting, dance, language and good HOME COOKING does for all of us.
It takes you to that place from where it comes, and makes you feel that you now have a new home in a new part of the world.
I send cheers from that endless road and wish you joy and energy for all you do
David
I was just saying that you knocked this out of the park with TGJN. We have needed something like this for so long and I am telling my friends about this. I said that it is sort of like a myspace for jazz but it is actually so much more. This is real. The people here truly love jazz and we know people like that are not your average people.
I have felt for a long time that straight-ahead jazz has been slipping away from us. I have hope now that there will be a resurgence (or shall I say an insurgency:-) to bring this baby back full force!
You just knocked it out of the park. Thanks again.
xoxo,
Janie
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“Grazie”
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