Tony Adamo - What Is Hip? mp3 download

Singer Tony Adamo’s next CD will be co-produced by Headhunters band members Mike Clark and Rob Dixon MIKE CLARK gained worldwide recognition as one of America’s foremost jazz and funk drummers while playing with Herbie Hancock’s group in the early 1970’s. Mike became known as a major innovator through his incisive playing on Hancock’s Thrust album, which garnered him an international cult following. Rob Dixon the VP of Owl Studios, part owner

“Doc” suggested several TOP songs Adamo might want to cover. Adamo choose “What is Hip” and “This Time it’s Real.” Kupka, along with jazz great, Eddie Henderson hold up the horn section on “Hip.” In the re-grooved “This Time It’s Real,” Mic Gillette, funk icon in his own right, wrote the horn arrangement and plays (trumpet & trombone) along with TOP horn member, Tom E. Poltzer (tenor sax). Poltzer plays lead solo with “Doc” Kupka on bari sax.

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What Is Hip?” puts him into an updated jack Kerouac bag where spoken word melds with the ensemble’s texture and alternates with his lyrical delivery. A popping electric bass and a Miles Davis muted echo (from Eddie Henderson) Jim Santella L.A. JAZZ SCENE

WHAT IS HIP “It quickly becomes apparent that in the gray area between jazz, R&B and soul, Tony Adamo is one of the top voices.” Scott Yanow, Author of the Jazz Singers