Adam Neely

Based in New York, Adam Neely pursues a path at the crossroads of jazz, electronic music, and online music education. A trained bassist, also a composer and keyboardist, Adam Neely began publishing videos as early as 2006 before gradually expanding his work as a musician into formats of analysis, popularization, and reflection on web musical cultures. A graduate of the Berklee College of Music in jazz composition and then of the Manhattan School of Music, he established himself in a New York scene where instrumental practice, writing, and collective projects mingle. On the musical front, Adam Neely notably plays within Sungazer, an electro-jazz duo formed with drummer Shawn Crowder, whose writing combines complex rhythms, synthetic textures, and improvisation, with the albums Perihelion (2021) and Against the Fall of Night (2024). He has also participated in the instrumental group Aberdeen and other projects on the local independent scene. Solo, his discography moves through shorter formats and proposals mixing lo-fi, microtonality, groove, and contemporary composition, such as time//motion//wine (2014), Gig Vlog M I X T A P E vol. 1 (2018), polytonal lo-fi (2020), and The Way Under, published in 2025 with Lau Noah. Adam Neely thus occupies a singular place between live performance, recorded creation, and the diffusion of ideas around music.