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Rodrigo Amado: Motion Trio
by Mark Corroto
Listening to saxophonist Rodrigo Amado, while knowing that he is also an accomplished professional photographer, lends insight into his sound and sense of proportion. His trio members, cellist Miguel Mira and drummer Gabriel Ferrandini, share his recognition of arrangement, distribution, and music-making dimensions. Motion Trio is a freely improvised recording possessing balance. Amado's previous ...
The Abstract Truth
Label: European Echoes
Released: 2009
Track listing: Rodrigo Amado: tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone; Kent Kessler: doublebass; Paal Nilssen-Love: drums.
Rodrigo Amado: The Abstract Truth
by Mark Corroto
Saxophonist Rodrigo Amado, bassist Kent Kessler, and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love is an international trio featuring players from Portugal, United States and Norway, respectively. But on its second recording, The Abstract Truth, the assemblage speaks the same language; its mother tongue being hard-hitting, concise improvisation. This disc follows the Teatro (European Echoes, 2006), the trio's ...
Rodrigo Amado New Trio CD
Three years after Teatro, his first trio recording with North-American double-bass player Kent Kessler and Norwegian drummer Paal Nilssen-Love, widely acclaimed by international reviewers and considered by many a major chapter in Portuguese jazz history, Rodrigo Amado releases The Abstract Truth, an homage to the art of Italian painter Giorgio de Chirico. A studio recording, The ...
Humanization 4tet
Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2008
Track listing:
01. Cristadingo; 02. Paso (for Pier Paolo Pasolini); 03. Principio da incerteza (for Sthephen Hawking); 04. Big Love (for Joe
Giardulo); 05. Long march (for Frida Kahlo); 06. 4 Small Steps.
Tutte le composizioni sono di Luis Lopes.
Luis Lopes: Humanization 4tet
by AAJ Italy Staff
Una pulsazione ipnotica con la cavata del contrabbasso che aggancia subito l’attenzione dell’orecchio, il ribollio della batteria che swinga libera, ed il groove di fondo è servito. Poi entra il tenore, ruvido quanto basta, note in economia per frasi suggerite, frastagliate, penetranti; infine la chitarra, elettrica ma dolce, avvolgente e naive, fuori da schemi e modelli ...
Surface
Label: European Echoes
Released: 2007
Track listing: Uncommon Places; Natural Bridge; The City; Luzzara; Calculators; Room 28; Surface Suite: Eat; Talk; Look;
Sleep; Walk; Trails End; Art Is Truth.
Teatro
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Released: 2007
Track listing: 1. The Iconoclast - 19:30; 2. Pandora's Box - 16:13; 3. Teatro - 07:16; 4. Chasin' Pirandello - 05:59.
Tutte le composizioni sono di Amado/Kessler/Nilssen-Love.
Rodrigo Amado: Surface
by Mark Corroto
Like the preceding disc from Rodrigo Amado entitled The Space Between (Clean Feed), this outing works the same tightrope. The Portuguese saxophonist adds cellist Tomas Ulrich to this trio of Carlos Zingaro (violin) and Ken Filiano (bass) for an uncommon chamber jazz experience. Amado is probably best known for his recordings with the Lisbon ...
