Adam Small
Encyclopedia
Adam Small is an American composer
, producer and instrumentalist. He attended Manhattan School of Music
in New York City
where he majored in jazz
performance. Adam has composed music for various television and film projects and is the co-creator of the sketch comedy television show MADtv
(E!), America's Psychic Challenge
(LIFETIME), Dr. Steve-O
(USA), The Pick-up Artist (TV series)
(VH1), Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Inferno III
(MTV), Unique Whips
(SPEED TV), Reunited: The Real World Las Vegas
(MTV), The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency
(OXYGEN), Two-A-Days
(MTV), Stars on Stars (Fox Sports), My First Home (TLC), The Real World: Denver
(MTV), Where did it come from? (HISTORY), The Bad Girls Club
(Oxygen), Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Fresh Meat
(MTV), Famous (BIOGRAPHY), Why Can't I Be You (MTV), Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
(BRAVO), Fat Camp: An MTV Docs Movie Presentation
(MTV), The Real World: Key West
(MTV), Survival of the Richest
(CW), Road Rules
(MTV), Jeremy Piven's Journey of a Lifetime (DISCOVERY, TRAVEL), Hogan Knows Best
(VH1, CMT), 8th & Ocean
(MTV), Made (TV series)
(MTV), Dr. 90210
(E!, STYLE), Beach Patrol
(COURT TV), True Life
(MTV), Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Gauntlet II (MTV), Obese at 16: A Life in the Balance (DISCOVERY HEALTH), ET on MTV (MTV), The Amazing Race
(CBS, GAME SHOW), The Real World: Austin
(MTV), Cavalcade of Personalities (COMEDY CENTRAL).
As a bassist Adam has performed with Bernie Worrell
(Parliament-Funkadelic
), The Pointer Sisters, Larry Goldings
(solo, Maceo Parker
), Jimmy Smith (musician)
, Bernard Purdie
, Jim Rotondi
, David Hazeltine
, Eddie Henderson (solo, Herbie Hancock
) amongst others.
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
, producer and instrumentalist. He attended Manhattan School of Music
Manhattan School of Music
The Manhattan School of Music is a major music conservatory located on the Upper West Side of New York City. The school offers degrees on the bachelors, masters, and doctoral levels in the areas of classical and jazz performance and composition...
in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
where he majored in jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
performance. Adam has composed music for various television and film projects and is the co-creator of the sketch comedy television show MADtv
MADtv
MADtv is an American sketch comedy television series. It licensed the name and logo of Mad, but otherwise had no connection with the humor magazine outside the animated Spy vs. Spy and Don Martin cartoon shorts and images of Alfred E. Neuman that the show featured during the late 1990s. Its first...
Biography
Adam Small has a background in numerous musical styles. His composer credits include Old Skool (VH1), Keeping Up with the KardashiansKeeping Up with the Kardashians
Keeping Up with the Kardashians is an American reality television series that airs on E!. The series premiered in October 2007. It focuses on the personal and professional lives of the members of the Kardashian and Jenner family. There will be a 7th Season to premiere in 2012.As of September 2011,...
(E!), America's Psychic Challenge
America's Psychic Challenge
America's Psychic Challenge was a competitive reality TV series on the Lifetime Television Network . The show originated in the UK with the title Britain's Psychic Challenge. Bunim-Murray Productions created the American version for Lifetime TV ....
(LIFETIME), Dr. Steve-O
Dr. Steve-O
Dr. Steve-O is an American reality television series starring Steve-O, Trishelle Cannatella and Reggie Pace. The show first premiered on October 1, 2007, it aired Monday nights at 11:05 pm Eastern / 10:05 pm Central, immediately after WWE Raw, on the USA Network. The show ended on November 1,...
(USA), The Pick-up Artist (TV series)
The Pick-up Artist (TV series)
The Pickup Artist is an American reality show on VH1 which focuses on a group of eight or nine male contestants who have historically been unsuccessful in love and relationships learning the art of the "pickup" as taught by seduction artist Mystery and his wings...
(VH1), Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Inferno III
Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Inferno III
The Inferno 3 is the fourteenth season of the MTV reality television game show, Real World/Road Rules Challenge, and the third of the Inferno series. Filming took place in Cape Town, South Africa, with cast members from The Real World, Road Rules and the Fresh Meat challenge competing...
(MTV), Unique Whips
Unique Whips
Unique Whips was a television show that aired on Speed Channel from 2005–2008 and then on Spike TV in 2010. It is similar in concept to other automotive shows such as West Coast Customs and Modern HotrodZ. The show follows the work of Unique Autosports based on Long Island, New York as they...
(SPEED TV), Reunited: The Real World Las Vegas
Reunited: The Real World Las Vegas
Reunited: The Real World Las Vegas is a seven-episode, 2007 spin-off miniseries of The Real World: Las Vegas that reunited the cast of the 2002 season of The Real World to live in the same Palms Hotel and Casino suite they filmed the original series in, five years after filming ended on The Real...
(MTV), The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency
The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency
The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency is a reality television series that debuted on Oxygen on June 6, 2006. The show has completed four seasons...
(OXYGEN), Two-A-Days
Two-A-Days
Two-A-Days is a show on the United States cable television channel MTV. The show chronicled the lives of teens at Hoover High School in Hoover, Alabama, a suburb of nearby Birmingham...
(MTV), Stars on Stars (Fox Sports), My First Home (TLC), The Real World: Denver
The Real World: Denver
The Real World: Denver is the eighteenth season of MTV's reality television series The Real World, which focuses on a group of diverse strangers living together for several months in a different city each season, as cameras follow their lives and interpersonal relationships. This season premiered...
(MTV), Where did it come from? (HISTORY), The Bad Girls Club
The Bad Girls Club
Bad Girls Club is an American reality television series created by Jonathan Murray for Oxygen. The show centers on seven mischievous and rebellious women from different backgrounds and personalities who have a number of psychological and behavioral problems. They are introduced to the show to...
(Oxygen), Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Fresh Meat
Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Fresh Meat
Fresh Meat is the twelfth season of Real World/Road Rules Challenge. Filmed in Australia, Fresh Meat featured two-player teams; each team had an alumnus of The Real World or Road Rules partnered with a newcomer to the Challenge . This is the first edition of the Fresh Meat series.-Cast:Host: T. J...
(MTV), Famous (BIOGRAPHY), Why Can't I Be You (MTV), Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List is a reality show starring Kathy Griffin. The series aired on Bravo. It debuted in August 2005, and was cancelled in November 2010....
(BRAVO), Fat Camp: An MTV Docs Movie Presentation
Fat Camp: An MTV Docs Movie Presentation
Fat Camp: An MTV Docs Movie Presentation is a documentary television movie about five teens at a fat camp called Camp Pocono Trails , in the Poconos, Pennsylvania.-External links:**...
(MTV), The Real World: Key West
The Real World: Key West
The Real World: Key West is the seventeenth season of MTV's reality television series The Real World, which focuses on a group of diverse strangers living together for several months in a different city each season, as cameras follow their lives and interpersonal relationships...
(MTV), Survival of the Richest
Survival of the Richest
Survival of the Richest is an American reality television show with the WB Television Network that first aired on March 31, 2006, in which seven "rich kids" who had a combined net worth of over $3 billion were forced to work together with 7 "poor kids" who had a combined debt of $150,000, through a...
(CW), Road Rules
Road Rules
Road Rules was an MTV reality show that debuted on July 19, 1995. The series, which was MTV's second reality show after The Real World followed six strangers between the ages of 18 and 24 after stripping them of their money and putting them on an RV traveling from location to location only guided...
(MTV), Jeremy Piven's Journey of a Lifetime (DISCOVERY, TRAVEL), Hogan Knows Best
Hogan Knows Best
Hogan Knows Best is an American television show produced by Pink Sneakers Productions and centered on the family life of professional wrestler Hulk Hogan . Often focusing on the Hogans' raising of their children, and on Hulk Hogan's attempts to manage and assist in his children's burgeoning careers...
(VH1, CMT), 8th & Ocean
8th & Ocean
8th & Ocean is an American reality series about a group of models living in Miami, Florida that premiered on MTV on March 7, 2006. The series aired for ten episodes, ending its run on May 9, 2006. The creators of 8th & Ocean are also responsible for Laguna Beach, a show also airing on MTV...
(MTV), Made (TV series)
Made (TV series)
MTV's MADE is a self-improvement reality television series broadcast on MTV. The series follows teens who have a goal and want to be "made" into things like singers, athletes, dancers, skateboarders, etc. The teens are joined by a "Made Coach", an expert in their chosen field, who tries to help...
(MTV), Dr. 90210
Dr. 90210
Dr. 90210 is an American reality television series focusing on plastic surgery in the wealthy suburb of Beverly Hills in Los Angeles, Southern California. The series began its run in 2004. Dr...
(E!, STYLE), Beach Patrol
Beach Patrol
Beach Patrol is a half-hour television series airing on Tru TV. The show features lifeguards and police working together to apprehend criminals and save lives....
(COURT TV), True Life
True Life
True Life is a documentary series running on MTV since 1998. Each episode follows a particular topic, such as heroin addiction as in the first episode, "Fatal Dose." The show is created by following a series of subjects by a camera crew through a certain part of their lives.-Topics covered:True...
(MTV), Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Gauntlet II (MTV), Obese at 16: A Life in the Balance (DISCOVERY HEALTH), ET on MTV (MTV), The Amazing Race
The Amazing Race
The Amazing Race is a reality television game show in which teams of two people, who have some form of a preexisting personal relationship, race around the world in competition with other teams...
(CBS, GAME SHOW), The Real World: Austin
The Real World: Austin
The Real World: Austin is the sixteenth season of MTV's reality television series The Real World, which focuses on a group of diverse strangers living together for several months in a different city each season, as cameras follow their lives and interpersonal relationships. The Real World: Austin...
(MTV), Cavalcade of Personalities (COMEDY CENTRAL).
As a bassist Adam has performed with Bernie Worrell
Bernie Worrell
George Bernard "Bernie" Worrell, Jr. is an American keyboardist and composer best known as a founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic and for his work with Talking Heads. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic...
(Parliament-Funkadelic
Parliament-Funkadelic
Parliament-Funkadelic is a funk, soul and rock music collective headed by George Clinton. Their style has been dubbed P-Funk. Collectively the group has existed under various names since the 1960s and has been known for top-notch musicianship, politically charged lyrics, outlandish concept albums...
), The Pointer Sisters, Larry Goldings
Larry Goldings
-Life and career:Goldings was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His father was a classical music enthusiast, and Larry studied classical piano until the age of twelve. While in high school at Concord Academy, he attended a program at the Eastman School of Music. During this period Erroll Garner,...
(solo, Maceo Parker
Maceo Parker
Maceo Parker is an American funk and soul jazz saxophonist, best known for his work with James Brown in the 1960s, as well as Parliament-Funkadelic in the 1970s. Parker was a prominent soloist on many of Brown's hit recordings, and a key part of his band, playing alto, tenor and baritone saxophones...
), Jimmy Smith (musician)
Jimmy Smith (musician)
Jimmy Smith was a jazz musician whose performances on the Hammond B-3 electric organ helped to popularize this instrument...
, Bernard Purdie
Bernard Purdie
Bernard Lee "Pretty" Purdie is an American session drummer, and is considered an influential and innovative exponent of funk...
, Jim Rotondi
Jim Rotondi
James Robert Rotondi is an American jazz trumpeter, educator and conductor.Born in Butte, Montana and the youngest of 5 siblings, Rotondi lives in Graz, Austria and performs there and internationally with several groups, as well as being a Professor at the University for Music and Dramatic Arts...
, David Hazeltine
David Hazeltine
David Hazeltine is an American jazz pianist.Today a major pianist in the New York and Japan scenes, David Hazeltine has been playing gigs since he was thirteen. He did not seriously consider going into music until right before college. Once he entered into the jazz world he was encouraged by Chet...
, Eddie Henderson (solo, Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock
Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is an American pianist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet," Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound...
) amongst others.
External links
- Adam Small - Official Website
- http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1814042/Adam Small at the Internet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...
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