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For Portuguese saxophonist Rodrigo Amado, improvisation isn’t only a process of making music, but an end in itself and a cause he pursues with great passion. His long span project Lisbon Improvisation Players and other groups he formed with, for instance, Ken Filiano, Steve Adams, Dennis Gonzalez, Carlos Zíngaro, Kent Kessler, Paal Nilssen-Love, Miguel Mira or Gabriel Ferrandini, all share the same method of opening the concept of real-time composition to as many perspectives as possible. With one foot in modern jazz and the other in free improvisation, what he likes most is to play in the jazz idiom, without any tunes or preconceived structures, but forging a work of strong structure, clear direction and deep meaning, in real-time

Album

Wailers

By Rodrigo Amado

Label: European Echoes
Released: 2026
Track listing: Wailers; Hot Folk; Violet Souls; Theory of Mind III (for Joe); Subterranean Night Color; Blue Blowers.

Album

Desolation Row

By David Maranha / Rodrigo Amado

Label: Comets Coming Recordings
Released: 2026
Track listing: Desolation Row

Article: Live Review

Summer Bummer 2026

by John Sharpe
September 10, 2026

Summer Bummer 2026 Trix, Antwerp Belgium August 28-29, 2026 Intro The 11th edition of the Summer Bummer festival more than lived up to the promise of the mouth-watering bill, presenting a wide variety of experimental music without fealty to any particular genre. While Summer Bummer inevitably tips its hat to the ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Music From The Scornful Four And More

by Bob Osborne
September 3, 2026

This international collection brings together a varied range of music , spanning current releases from independent labels alongside historical performances from earlier eras of the genre. It incorporates diverse stylistic approaches, moving across contemporary jazz compositions, avant-garde improvisations, and larger ensemble arrangements. By pairing recent releases with archival material, the sequence offers an insight into the ...

Article: In Pictures

Jazz em Agosto 2026, Part 1

by Petra Cvelbar
September 1, 2026

The 42nd edition of Jazz em Agosto in Lisbon opened on July 31 with a solo concert by pianist Joachim Kühn. The second day featured a duo performance by David Maranha (organ) and Rodrigo Amado (tenor saxophone) at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Later, the action moved to the Open-Air Amphitheater in the Gulbenkian Garden, where the ...

Article: Album Review

David Maranha / Rodrigo Amado: Desolation Row

Read "Desolation Row" reviewed by Kevin Poindexter

by Kevin Poindexter
August 30, 2026

David Maranha and Rodrigo Amado's Desolation Row seems to invite you into its world, offering you a front-row seat on a transcendent journey, an opportunity to bear witness to the wonders that are about to transpire. Desolation Row is the duo's second album, and like its predecessor,Wrecks (Nariz Entupido, 2024), it was also recorded live before ...

Article: Album Review

Simon Rose, et al.: One Voice

Read "One Voice" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
August 17, 2026

What is more American than jazz? Historians generally agree that the music was born in New Orleans, forged from African musical traditions, European harmony and Caribbean rhythms. Alongside jazz, baseball and basketball are among America's great cultural inventions. Yet today, none of these belongs solely to the United States. Japan captured the imagination of baseball fans ...

Article: Album Review

Rodrigo Amado: Wailers

by Mark Corroto
August 13, 2026

A decade ago, it would have been easy to assume that saxophonist Rodrigo Amado's This Is Our Language (Not Two, 2015) was a singular encounter rather than the beginning of an enduring ensemble. Amado had previously collaborated with bassist Kent Kessler and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love on Teatro (European Echoes, 2006), while drummer Chris Corsano would join ...

Article: Live Review

Jazz em Agosto 2026

by Stefano Merighi
August 11, 2026

Jazz Em Agosto 2026 Fondazione Gulbenkian Lisbona 31 luglio-9 agosto 2026 È arrivata all'edizione 42 “Jazz Em Agosto," di scena negli spazi sontuosi della Fondazione Gulbenkian a Lisbona, sempre con la direzione artistica di Rui Neves. Ed è stata un'edizione all'insegna dell'eclettismo stilistico, dove il jazz continua ...