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Article: Album Review

Rodrigo Amado Motion Trio + Jeb Bishop: The Flame Alphabet

Read "The Flame Alphabet" reviewed 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 ...

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Rodrigo Amado's Motion Trio + Jeb Bishop: The Flame Alphabet

Read "The Flame Alphabet" reviewed by John Sharpe


Remember free-bop? While there's no hard and fast definition, the term was used to encompass jazz boasting a written head, often at rapid bebop tempo, which subsequently opened up harmonically and rhythmically, but without straying completely off the map. Think some of the freewheeling Blue Note discs of Sam Rivers and Andrew Hill or some of ...

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Burning Live At Jazz AO Centro

Label: JACC Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: Burning Live; Imaginary Caverns; Red Halo.

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Burning Live

Label:
Released: 2012
Track listing: 01. Burning Live; 02. Imaginary Caverns; 03. Red Halo.

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Article: Album Review

Rodrigo Amado Motion Trio: Burning Live

Read "Burning Live" reviewed 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, ...

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Rodrigo Amado: Burning Live At Jazz AO Centro

Read "Burning Live At Jazz AO Centro" reviewed 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 ...

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Electricity

Label: Ayler Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: 1. Dehumanization Blues (Aaron González) - 9:15; 2. Jungle Gymnastics (Lopes) - 4:38; 3. Two Girls (Amado) - 6:05; 4. Effigy (Lopes) - 6:46; 5. Procurei-te Na Noite (Lopes) - 5:44; 6. Infidelities (Aaron González) - 6:31; 7. Eavesdropper(Aaron e Stefan González/Lopes/Amado)/Ruas Sentimentais (Stefan González) - 12:41.

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Humanization 4tet: Electricity

Read "Electricity" reviewed 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, ...

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News: Radio

The Jazz Session #237: Rodrigo Amado

The Jazz Session #237: Rodrigo Amado

Portuguese saxophonist Rodrigo Amados new album, Searching For Adam (Not Two, 2010), features Taylor Ho Bynum, John Hebert and Gerald Cleaver. In this interview, Amado describes how he chose his bandmates without having played with them before; talks about his decision to record freely improvised music; and tells the story of the amazing transformation of the ...

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Rodrigo Amado: Searching for Adam

Read "Searching for Adam" reviewed 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. ...


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