Rodrigo Amado

Rodrigo Amado is a Portuguese saxophonist, born in Lisbon in 1964. He took up the saxophone at 17. He plays free jazz and improvised music, leading his own trios and quartets with musicians from Lisbon, the United States and Scandinavia. In 2001 he co-founded the Lisbon label Clean Feed with Pedro and Carlos Costa. Amado left Clean Feed in 2005 and started European Echoes, which issued Teatro, a trio with Kent Kessler and Paal Nilssen-Love.