Adamo Poems - Poems about Adamo

...THE JAZZ SAINT... Nu Jazz Break/Spoken Word I HIT UPON THIS CAT NAMED JESUS/STANDING ON THE FLOOR OF GRAND CENTRAL STATION AND 42ND STREET/HE WAS PREACHING TO THE LOST SOULS OF MUSIC WHO GAVE UP THE......

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...NINE MILES OF BLUE By Tony Adamo (Nov.25,’05) Hip spoken’ Word I walked into a little jazz dive off 125th and Lex a cold wind blew me through the swingin’ doors/ Beer, peanuts, dark smoke......

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...In Hip City/Tony Adamo where rhythms collide, and no jive is spoken/ Guru laid down the truth, a fusion of jazz and rap/ no holds barred streetwise rap talk/ Just as Herbie’s touch on keys/ his Hea......

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...King Pleasure bebop jazz singer vocalese hipster/ a legend he was/ a master at writing lyrics to solos of jazz instrumentalists such as the lyrics to Charlie Parker's "Parker's Mood"/ His scat ......

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...Yo Bro Sound It Out/Tony Adamo Yo bro, you got to sound it out/ let the spoken words roll/ let yourself go/your words are in and out of the rhythm track/ It’s the downbeat groove/ man, hit that word......

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...The Hip Jazz Cat/Tony Adamo Step up, Man, get up, let me hip you to this/ a jazz cat who weaves words and sings/ People, It’s Giacomo Gates/ He’s the master of vocalese a hipster’s delight/ A sto......

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...KEROUAC THE WORD SPEAKS JAZZ/Tony Adamo Spoken Word All in Caps for Better Reading While in Recording Studio/10/14/23 THE JAZZ COOL AND BEBOP MUSICIANS MADE MUSIC THEIR OWN/ THE BEAT GENERATION......

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...Lotto Day Buzz/Tony Adamo Thoughts spin like a top high. my head’s a blur of numbers, 9 8 9 7 3-no! Wait, hold on, 8 6 7 22 slips away. Not quite right. Man don’t rush me, damn! People waitin......

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...Right Now/Tony Adamo the subway rumbles, a symphony of voices, spoken words drifting, like jazz notes swirling, through twilight streets, trumpet sharp, trombone smooth, the city breathes, t......

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...NO FLEXIN/ Word and Art/Tony Adamo Iconic slick rhymes/ trumpet beats sampled/ Latin soul grooves on Bronx Street/ No flexin’, just real 90's rap/ Hip hop flows into jazz spoken word soul/ jazz......

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...WAS IT U? Tony Adamo Under the stars, were Jelly roll Morton rolls, carnival lights twinkling, like flowers glowing brightly in the night. Candy-bright sugar moments, pop like gumdrops, a swee......

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...The Iceman the Bronx/Tony Adamo I DIG THAT THE ICEMAN’S BACK, HITTING THE SPOKEN WORD STAGES IN THE BRONX AND THE OTHER BOROUGHS IN NEW YORK/AFTER ALL HE IS BORN AND BREAD IN DE BRONX/WORD SPITTER......

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...Backbone Slim’s Blues/Tony Adamo 12/10/2024 In the deep south, where rivers wind, A tale unfolds, of a soul inter-twined/ Backbone Slim, born where the cotton sways, In fields of labor, he spent......

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...WEE WILLIE BO By Tony Adamo... In the heart of the Delta, where the Mississippi flows, Wee Willie Bo, a soulful storyteller, arose. Twelve-bar phrases, a blues rhythm so fine, Blue notes whisper ......

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...And after had passed the two enraged by On which I had before pointed my sight, I turned to others evil-born my eye. I saw one, who the form of lute have might, If he the groin in full had only......

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