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 Abstract Truth is all about the truth that exists in the act of total improvisation, a complex and demanding discipline that projects, unbiased, what a musician truly is.
Rodrigo Amado is one of the most active Portuguese improvisers and splits his time between music, writing and photography. Having recently returned from a US east coast tour that took him to cities like Dallas, Houston, Austin, New Orleans, Atlanta, Washington, Philadelphia and New York, the saxophonist is increasingly referred to as a powerful improviser with an original language that balances the fire of post-free jazz with a sophisticated sense of form and melody.
After recording projects like Surface (with Carlos Zingaro, Tomas Ulrich and Ken Filiano), Teatro (with Kent Kessler and Paal Nilssen-Love), Spiritualized (with Dennis Gonzalez, Pedro Goncalves, Bruno Pedroso and Ulrich Mitzlaff), The Space Between (with Zingaro and Filiano) and Motion (with Steve Adams, once again Filiano and Acacio Salero), Amado has still two other albums scheduled for release this year; the much awaited recording of his quartet with Taylor Ho Bynum, John Hebert and Gerald Cleaver, and the first recording of his Motion Trio, with Miguel Mira and Gabriel Ferrandini.
A studio recording, The Abstract Truth is all about the truth that exists in the act of total improvisation, a complex and demanding discipline that projects, unbiased, what a musician truly is.
Rodrigo Amado is one of the most active Portuguese improvisers and splits his time between music, writing and photography. Having recently returned from a US east coast tour that took him to cities like Dallas, Houston, Austin, New Orleans, Atlanta, Washington, Philadelphia and New York, the saxophonist is increasingly referred to as a powerful improviser with an original language that balances the fire of post-free jazz with a sophisticated sense of form and melody.
After recording projects like Surface (with Carlos Zingaro, Tomas Ulrich and Ken Filiano), Teatro (with Kent Kessler and Paal Nilssen-Love), Spiritualized (with Dennis Gonzalez, Pedro Goncalves, Bruno Pedroso and Ulrich Mitzlaff), The Space Between (with Zingaro and Filiano) and Motion (with Steve Adams, once again Filiano and Acacio Salero), Amado has still two other albums scheduled for release this year; the much awaited recording of his quartet with Taylor Ho Bynum, John Hebert and Gerald Cleaver, and the first recording of his Motion Trio, with Miguel Mira and Gabriel Ferrandini.
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