{"id":8229,"date":"2015-08-31T23:18:45","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T06:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=8229"},"modified":"2012-08-31T23:18:45","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T06:18:45","slug":"tony-adamos-funky-jazz-is-feverish-kool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=8229","title":{"rendered":"Tony Adamo\u2019s Funky Jazz is Feverish Kool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><br \/>\nThe songs \u201cNine Miles of Blu\u201d and \u201cQbafrica\u201d have been trading spots on the top 25 jazz charts at allaboutjazz.com for the last 150 days. Tony Adamo\u2019s \u201cNine Miles of Blu\u201d is produced by legendary drummer, Mike Clark, of Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters fame. \u201cNine Miles of Blu\u201d has not dropped out of the top ten in over 150 days and has gone #1 three different times in three months. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cNine Miles of Blu\u201d is currently at # 4 with Alfredo Rodriguez\u2019s song \u201cQbafrica,\u201d produced by the legendary producer Quincy Jones, at #3 on the top 25 jazz chart. Alfredo Rodriguez more than lives up to all the hype on his Mack Avenue Records debut. He has the chops, musicianship and jazz coolness to go all the way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Soul jazz artist\/songwriter, Tony Adamo, was discovered by drummer Mike Clark. Clark has been called \u201cthe most sampled drummer in hip hop.\u201d His beats have been used on tracks by musicians NWA, Grandmaster Flash, Britney Spears, Prince, and many others. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Mike Clark describes Adamo\u2019s original music as \u201cOaktown Funk and New York throw down meets vocal\/hipspokenword. So ladies and gents, dig these two new artists. The groove is here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">Frank Black, DoubleLeft Hook Productions, NYC<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The songs \u201cNine Miles of Blu\u201d and \u201cQbafrica\u201d have been<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8229"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8358,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8229\/revisions\/8358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}