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Rodrigo Amado Motion Trio + Jeb Bishop: The Flame Alphabet
by Eyal Hareuveni
The collaboration between the prolific Portuguese saxophonist Rodrigo Amado and his Motion Trio with Chicagoan trombonist Jeb Bishop, has produced two albums so far. The live recording, Burning Live At Jazz AO Centro (JACC Records, 2012) and the 2011 studio recording The Flame Alphabet. The addition of Bishop to Amado's trio was organic. Both are experienced improvisers who worked and led high-octane outfits. Amado collaborated and led bands with American trumpeter Dennis González, with Chicagoan bassist Kent Kessler and Norwegian ...
Continue ReadingRodrigo Amado Motion Trio: Burning Live
by AAJ Italy Staff
Rodrigo Amado si può considerare uno dei principali animatori della scena impro portoghese grazie alla sua multiforme attività divisa tra iniziative editoriali - insieme ai fratelli Pedro e Carlos Costa ha dato vita nel 2001 all'ormai affermata Clean Feed, lasciata nel 2005 per fondare la propria European Echoes - collaborazioni prestigiose - Alex Cline, Bobby Bradford, Paul Dunmall, Paal Nilssen-Love, etc. - progetti musicali - Lisbon Improvisation Players e The Motion Trio. Proprio quest'ultimo è colto dal vivo durante Jazz ...
Continue ReadingRodrigo Amado: Burning Live At Jazz AO Centro
by Mark Corroto
Rodrigo Amado's improvising Motion Trio might be better described as The Confluence Trio or Conflux, because its sound is a meeting of rivers. Like the three rivers of Pittsburgh, where the Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers join to create the Ohio River, or Sangam, India where the Ganges, Yamuna and Saraswati meet, the music of the Motion Trio flows together to create a seamless whole, as was quite evident on its self-titled debut, Motion Trio (European Echoes, 2010).The trio ...
Continue ReadingHumanization 4tet: Electricity
by AAJ Italy Staff
Lo si era capito già nel 2009, quando uscì su Clean Feed Humanization 4tet, che il chitarrista Luís Lopes aveva trovato la proverbiale quadratura del cerchio arruolando il sax tenore del connazionale Rodrigo Amado e affidando la ritmica ai fratelli Aaron e Stefan González (di recente ascoltati a fianco del padre, il trombettista texano Dennis González, in Cape of Storms). Due anni dopo, Electricity, fatica numero due del quartetto pubblicata dalla Ayler Records, conferma la caratura della band e, per ...
Continue ReadingRodrigo Amado: Searching for Adam
by AAJ Italy Staff
Spalleggiata da un'etichetta lungimirante come la Clean Feed e sostenuta coraggiosamente da festival pronti a rischiare come quelli di Lisbona e Coimbra, c'è tutta una nuova scena portoghese che si sta imponendo all'attenzione del jazz globale. Carlos Bica, Hugo Carvalhais, Gabriel Pinto, Mário Costa, Carlos Barretto, Hugo Antunes, Alexandre Frazão, Luís Lopes, Bernardo Sassetti, Zé Eduardo. I nomi da appuntarsi cominciano a essere tanti; e tra essi c'è anche quello di Rodrigo Amado, fotografo e sassofonista, a suo tempo fondatore ...
Continue ReadingRodrigo Amado: Searching For Adam
by Mark Corroto
Another spirited outing from saxophonist Rodrigo Amado, Searching For Adam finds the tenor and baritone saxophonist in the company of three of the most in-demand players working today: cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum, drummer Gerald Cleaver, and bassist John Hébert. Like his previous discs, The Abstract Truth (European Echoes, 2009), and Teatro (European Echoes, 2006), with Paal Nilssen-Love and Kent Kessler, Amado unveils a keen sense of improvisation tempered with an ability to obtain an ensemble sound of composition ...
Continue ReadingRodrigo Amado: Motion Trio
by Clifford Allen
Abstraction is too often both separated from and associated with improvised music. Either sounds are divorced from meaning outside themselves, or expected to tell some sort of story. Neither euphemism really works that well. But image is a central fact of Portuguese improviser Rodrigo Amado's work, whether referring to the representational or nonrepresentational--after all, in addition to being a tenor and baritone saxophonist, he's an accomplished photographer whose work takes on the angularity of Stephen Shore (see his Surface (European ...
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