Rodrigo Amado

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The Rodrigo Amado This Is Our Language 4TET at Club W71 , 2019

Rodrigo Amado (born July 15, 1964 in Lisbon ) is a Portuguese jazz and improvisation musician ( saxophone ), music producer , photographer and columnist .

Live and act

Rodrigo Amado began learning the saxophone at the age of 17. For a short time he studied at the music school of the Hot Clube de Portugal in Lisbon; he also had private lessons with Carlos Martins , Jorge Reis and Pedro Madaleno . Since then he has been working in the improvisation scene in Lisbon (with Sei Miguel ), as well as with international musicians such as Ken Filiano , Taylor Ho Bynum , John Hébert , Gerald Cleaver , Dennis González , Carlos Zingaro , Peter Evans ( The Freedom Principle ), Kent Kessler and Paal Nilssen-Love .

In September 2001 Amado founded the independent label Clean Feed Records with the brothers Pedro and Carlos Costa , which is dedicated to contemporary jazz and improvisation music. In 2005 Amado left the company and founded his own label, European Echoes , on which primarily his own productions appeared. In addition, he works as a freelance photographer and as an author for the daily newspaper Público . He leads the band projects Lisbon Improvisation Players and the Motion Trio (with Miguel Mira and Gabriel Ferrandini ). His album Burning Live was selected as one of the best new releases of the year by All About Jazz in 2012 . With Joe McPhee , Kent Kessler and Chris Corsano he forms the Rodrigo Amado This Is Our Language 4TET .

Discographic notes

  • The Implicate Order: At Seixal (Clean Feed, 2011), with Steve Swell , Ken Filiano, Lou Grassi , Paulo Curado
  • Lisbon Improvisation Players Live_Lxmeskla (Clean Feed, 2002) with Marco Franco, Paulo Curado, Pedro Gonçalves, Acacio Salero
  • Motion (Clean Feed, 2004), with Steve Adams, Ken Filiano
  • Spiritualized (2006), with Ulrich Mitzlaff , Dennis Gonzalez, Pedro Gonçalves, Bruno Pedroso
  • Teatro (2006), with Kent Kessler, Paal Nilson-Love
  • Surface (2007), with Carlos Zingaro, Tomas Ulrich , Ken Filiano
  • The Abstract Truth (2009), with Kent Kessler, Paal Nilson-Love
  • Searching for Adam ( Not Two Records , 2010), with Taylor Ho Bynum, John Hébert, Gerald Cleaver
  • Burning Live at Jazz ao Centro (2012), with Jeb Bishop
  • Rodrigo Amado Motion Trio + Peter Evans: Live in Lisbon (2014)
  • Rodrigo Amado Motion Trio & Peter Evans: The Freedom Principle ( NoBusiness Records , 2014)
  • Wire Quartet (Clean Feed, 2014)
  • Rodrigo Amado, Joe McPhee , Kent Kessler, Chris Corsano : This Is Our Language (2015)
  • Gonçalo Almeida / Rodrigo Amado / Marco Franco : The Attic (2017)
  • Rodrigo Amado / Joe McPhee / Kent Kessler / Chris Corsano : A History of Nothing (Trost, 2018)
  • The Attic: Summer Bummer (2019), with Goncalo Almeida , Onno Govaert
  • Rodrigo Amado & Chris Corsano: No Place to Fall (Astral Spirits, 2019)
  • Rodrigo Amado / Dirk Serries : Jazzblazzt (Raw Tonk Records, 2019)

Web links

Commons : Rodrigo Amado  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rodrigo Amado's album makes Best Releases 2012 list
personal data
SURNAME Amado, Rodrigo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Lisbon