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Tony Adamo: Was Out Jazz Zone Mad reviewed By Jazz Weekly

Source: Tony Adamo
October 15, 2018
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He��s part vocalist, poet, street preacher, hip uncle, but above all, a jazzer with a grooving heart.

One of the great things about

Tony Adamo

vocals
b.1965

" data-original-title="" title="">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

drums
b.1946

" data-original-title="" title="">Mike Clark along with

Jack Wilkins

saxophone, tenor
1944 - 2023

" data-original-title="" title="">Jack Wilkins,

Mike LeDonne

organ, Hammond B3
b.1956

" data-original-title="" title="">Mike LeDonne,

Donald Harrison

saxophone, alto
b.1960

" data-original-title="" title="">Donald Harrison,

Tim Ouimette

trumpet

" data-original-title="" title="">Tim Ouimette and various other cats who sit in for some snapping beats.

Adamo��s voice is husky and his delivery is like a carney at the county fair, but instead of selling rides or Vegematics, he tells stories in the Tom Waits vein with a clever phrase and twist of a rhyme, with irresistible beats and ricochet shots by the band as on ��Rain Man�� or the chunky swamp fest of ��Let the Devil Pay My Way.�� Lenny White takes the band to hi-hat heaven with the horns as Adamo is a soulful weatherman on ��Gale Blowin�� High�� and Clark sets the traps like he��s going to catch some Grizz on ��Boogaloo the Funky Beat.�� Jack Wilkins bends the strings like their chiropractic patients on the bluesy story ��I��m Out The Door�� as Adamo weaves between speaking, a Slam Stewart-styled swinging and avuncular admonishments.

Adamo loves a good yarn, and material like ��General T.�� and ��Birth of the Cool�� are spun out like a cat is toying with them, all with a vibe that shakes his Bay Area home like the 1906 earthquake. Check out this one, and hope he cruises into town in his V8.

��George W. Harris, Jazz Weekly

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Track Listing

Rain Man; Sonic Henderson; B.B. King Blues Oh Fire; Birth Of The Cool; General T; Boogaloo The Funky Beat; Card Dealer; Gale Blowin High; To Funky To Flush; Jax Bulldog Priest; I'm Out The Door; Let The Devil Pay My Way; Fly Jump Or Die.